Where yon rock the plain o'ershadows
Close beneath its foot retir'd,
Fainting sunk the bleeding hero,
And without a groan expir'd.60
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⁂ In the Spanish original of the foregoing ballad follow a few more stanzas, but being of inferior merit were not translated.
Renegado properly signifies an Apostate; but it is sometimes used to express an Infidel in general; as it seems to do above in ver. 21, &c.
The image of the Lion, &c. in ver. 37, is taken from the other Spanish copy, the rhymes of which end in ia, viz.
"Sayavedra, que lo oyera,
"Como un leon rebolbia."
FOOTNOTES:
[1027] i.e. The ballad-singer.
[1028] See vol. iii. Appendix.