[8] In the _Avertissement_ to _Le Cid_ (editions of 1648-56), Corneille quotes two ballads from the _Romancero general_:
(_a_) Delante el rey de León Doña Jimena una tarde...
(_b_) Á Jimena y á Rodrigo prendió el rey palabra y mano.
They are given in Durán, Nos. 735 and 739.
[9] _Traitté de l’origine des romans_, preceding Segrais’ _Zayde, Histoire Espagnole_ (Paris, 1671), p. 51.
[13] _Anseis von Karthago._ _Herausgegeben von Johann Alton_, 194ste Publication des Litterarischen Vereins in Stuttgart. (Tübingen, 1892.)
[14] _Primavera_, No. 5_a_; Durán, No. 602.
[15] James Young Gibson, _The Cid Ballads, and other Poems and Translations from Spanish and German_ (London, 1887).
[17] _Orientales_, XVI. Victor Hugo may probably have heard of this _romance_, and of the Lara _romance_ mentioned on pp. 91-92, through his elder brother Abel, who gave prose translations of both ballads in his _Romances historiques_ (Paris, 1822), pp. 11-12, 135-137.
[18] Durán, No. 586. Durán points out the absurd impropriety of the line:—
Sabrás, mi florida Cava, que de ayer acá, no vivo.
The ending of this _romance_ is far better known than the beginning:—
Si dicen quien de los dos la mayor culpa ha tenido, digan los hombres ‘La Cava,’ y las mujeres ‘Rodrigo.’
[19] _Primavera_, No. 13_a_; Durán, No. 654.
[20] Durán, No. 646. _The Complaint of the Count of Saldaña_, as Lockhart entitles it, is from Durán, No. 625:—
Bañando está las prisiones con lágrimas que derrama.
_The Funeral of the Count of Saldaña_ is from Durán, No. 657:—
Hincado está de rodillas ese valiente Bernardo.
_Bernardo and Alphonso_ is from Durán, No. 655:—
Con solos diez de los suyos ante el Rey, Bernardo llega.
[22] _Primavera_, No. 15; Durán, No. 700.
[23] _Primavera_, No. 17; Durán, No. 704.
[24] _Primavera_, No. 16; Durán, No. 703.
No se puede llamar rey quien usa tal villanía.
[26] _Primavera_, No. 26; Durán, No. 691.
[27] _Primavera_, No. 19; Durán, No. 665.
[32] _Primavera_, No. 29; Durán, No. 731.
[38] Durán, No. 886. Lockhart begins at the line—
El rey aguardara al Cid como á bueno y leal vasallo.
[39] _Primavera_, No. 34; Durán, No. 756.
[40] _Primavera_, No. 30_b_; Durán, No. 733.
[41] The other two are (_a_) _Primavera_, No. 30:—
Cada dia que amanece veo quien mató á mi padre.