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    ser ya el Dueño de un pueblo amotinádo, se apresuró á concluir una capitulation, la menos dura que podia obtenir en tan urgentes circumstancias, y oftecio entregor á Granada el dia seis de Enero."—Paseos en Granada, vol. i. p. 298.


    Note 23, page 49, line 3.
    Ye, that around the oaken cross of yore.

    The oaken cross, carried by Pelagius in battle.


    Note 24, page 50, line l.
    And thou, the warrior born in happy hour.

    See Southey's Chronicle of the Cid, in which that warrior is frequently styled, "he who was born in happy hour."}}


    Note 25, page 50, lines 9 and 10.

    E’en in the realm of spirits didst retain
    A patriot's vigilance, remembering Spain!

    "Moreover, when the Miramamolin brought over from Africa, against King Don Alfonso, the eighth of that name, the mightiest power of the misbelievers that had ever been brought against Spain, since the destruction of the kings of the Goths, the Cid Campeador remembered his country in that great danger; for the night before the battle was fought at the Navas de Tolosa, in the dead of the night, a mighty sound was heard in the whole city of Leon, as if it were the tramp of a great army passing through; and it passed on to the royal monastery of St. Isidro, and there was a great knocking at the gate thereof, and they called to a priest who was keeping vigils in the church, and told him, that the captains of the army whom he heard were the Cid Ruydiez, and