Ancient Spanish ballads; historical and romantic. Tr. by J. G. Lockhart, esq.

THE VENGEANCE OF MUDARA. 51 THE VENGEANCE OF MUDARA. [THIS is another of the many ballads concerning the Infants of Lara. One srse of it - El espera que tu diste a los Infantes de Lara! Aqui moriras traydor enemigo de Donna Sancha, -is quoted by Sancho Panza, in one of the last chapters of Don Quixote.] To the chase goes Rodrigo with hound and with hawk; But what game he desires is revealed in his talk: "0, in vain have I slaughtered the Infants of Lara: There's an heir in his hall, - there's the bastard Mudara, - There's the son of the renegade, - spawn of Mahoun, - If I meet with Mudara, my spear brings him down." While Rodrigo rides on in the heat of his wrath, A stripling, armed cap-a-pie, crosses his path: " Good morrow, young esquire." " Good morrow, old knight." " Will you ride with our party, and share our delight? " "Speak your name, courteous stranger," the stripling replied; "Speak your name and your lineage, ere with you I ride." "My name is Rodrigo," thus answered the knight; "Of the line of old Lara, though barred from my right; For the kinsman of Salas proclaims, for the heir Of our ancestor's castles and forestries fair, A bastard, a renegade's offspring, - Mudara, - Whom I'11 send, if I can, to the Infants of Lara."

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Ancient Spanish ballads; historical and romantic. Tr. by J. G. Lockhart, esq.
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Lockhart, J. G. tr. (John Gibson), 1794-1854.
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Boston,: Whittemore, Niles, and Hall;
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