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Title: The pictorial book of ancient ballad poetry of Great Britain, historical, traditional, and romantic: to which are added, a selection of modern imitations, and some translations
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: Moore, Joseph S., ed. (from old catalog)
Subjects: English ballads and songs
Publisher: London, H. Washbourne & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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(This ballad, like The Admiral Guarino, is atranslation, — and, to use again his own words,as he believed, a very faithful one, by M. G.Lewis, commonly called Monk Lewis—of what hedenominates an ancient Spanish Romance. Itfirst published in the same work as the ballad abovementioned; and from that work it is here taken.Respecting the original, Mr. Lewis furnishes no fartherinformation. It is probably to be found, however, inthe same storehouse from which Mr. Lockhart hasculled so many beauties, in bis ■ Ancient SpanishBallads, London, 1841; in which work the reader maysee translations of two other ballads relating to thehero of the present. Southey and Scott have also madethe English reader familiar with his history, in theirpoejns entitled respectively, • Roderick, the last of theGoths, and The Vision of Don Roderick. Thereader of Don Quixote, too, will remember more thanone allusion to the monarchs misfortunes. (Part ii.ch. 26, 33.)) HE moon was full, and full the tide; The

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