60: C'est s'y prendre un peu tard, etc. «You are beginning a little late to play the young man.»
61: Boabdil, the last of the Moorish kings of Granada, driven out by Ferdinand in 1492.
62: Mahom, an abbreviation of Mahomet; compare the English Mahound.
63: Mais qu'à cela ne tienne. «Why! do not let that hinder you.»
64: Don Silvius. Like the Italians, and indeed with just as good reason, many great Spanish families are fond of claiming descent from the heroes of ancient Rome.
65: Toro. A city of 9000 inhabitants between Valladolid and Zamora.
66: Valladolid. A famous city in the former kingdom of Leon, in the northwest of Spain, famous for its situation, its antiquity, its memories. Columbus died there, in 1506.
67: Tribut des cent vierges. The reference is to a story told in the Romancero general, to the effect that a hundred virgins were offered to the Moors as ransom for a prisoner.
68: Ramire. There were several kings by the name of Ramiro in the history of Aragon.
69: Grand maître de Saint Jacque et de Calatrava. The orders of knighthood of St. James (Santiago) and of Calatrava were founded for the purpose of resisting the Moors.