Moorish Literature / Comprising Romantic Ballads, Tales of the Berbers, Stories of the Kabyles, Folk-Lore, and National Traditions

by Unknown

Let the shrill fife, the flute, the sackbut ring

A summons to our Admiral, a salvo to our King.

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MORIANA AND GALVAN

Twas Princess Moriana,

Upon a castle's height,

That played with Moorish Galvan

At cards for her delight;

And oft he lost the stakes he set,

Full many a coin I wis;