[1029] Literally, Green river, green river. [Percy found out, after writing this, that Rio Verde is the name of a river in Spain, a fact, which he writes, "ought to have been attended to by the translator, had he known it.">[
XVII.
ALCANZOR AND ZAYDA,
A MOORISH TALE,
Imitated from the Spanish.
The foregoing version was rendered as literal as the nature of the two languages would admit. In the following a wider compass hath been taken. The Spanish poem that was chiefly had in view is preserved in the same history of the Civil Wars of Granada, f. 22, and begins with these lines:
"Por la calle de su dama
"Passeando se anda," &c.
