NOTES.

Note 1.

MOUNTAIN Christians, those natives of Spain, who, under their prince, Pelayo, took refuge amongst the mountains of the northern provinces, where they maintained their religion and liberty, whilst the rest of their country was overrun by the Moors.

Note 2.

Oh, free doth sorrow pass, &c.

Frey geht das Unglück durch die ganze Erde.
Schiller's Death of Wallenstein, act iv. sc. 2.

Tizona, the fire-brand.

Note 3.

The name of the Cid's favourite

sword, taken in battle from the Moorish king Bucar.

Note 4

How he won Valencia from the Moor, &c.

Valencia, which has been repeatedly besieged, and taken by the armies of different nations, remained in the possession of the Moors for an hundred and seventy years after the Cid's death. It was regained from them by King Don Jayme of Aragon, surnamed the Conqueror; after whose success I have ventured to suppose it governed by a descendant of the Campeador.

Note 5.

It was a Spanish tradition, that the great bell of the cathedral of Saragossa always tolled spontaneously before a king of Spain died.

Note 6.

"El que en buen hora nasco; he that was born in happy An appellation given to the Cid in the ancient

hour. chronicles.

Note 7.

For this, and the subsequent allusions to Spanish legends, see The Romances and Chronicle of the Cid.

Note 8.

"La voilà, telle que la mort nous l'a faite!"-Bossuet, Oraisons Funèbres.

Note 9.

This circumstance is recorded of King Don Alfonso, the last of that name. He sent to the Cid's tomb for the cross which that warrior was accustomed to wear upon his breast when he went to battle, and had it made into one for himself; "because of the faith which he had, that through it he should obtain the victory."-Southey's Chronicle of the Cid.