NOTE 9.

Who drank for man the bitter cup of tears.

"El Rey D. Fernando bolvió á la Vega, y pusó su Real á la vista de Huecar, a veynte y seys dias del mes de Abril, adonde fué fortificado de todo lo necesario; poniendo el Christiano toda su gente en esquadron, con todas sus vanderas tendidas, y su Real Estandarte, el qual llevava por divisa un Christo crucificado."Historia de las Guerras Civiles de Granada.

NOTE 10.

From yon rich province of the western star.

Andalusia signifies, in Arabic, the region of the evening or of the west; in a word, the Hesperia of the Greeks. See Casiri. Bibliot. Arabico-Hispana, Gibbon's Decline and Fall, &c.

NOTE 11.

The snow-white charger, and the azure crest. "Los Abencerrages salieron con su acostumbrada librea azul y blanca, todos llenos de ricos texidos de plata, las plumas de la misma color; en sus adargas, su acostumbrada divisa, salvages que desquixalavan leones, y otros un mundo que lo deshazia un selvage con un baston." -Guerras Civiles de Granada.

NOTE 12.

Th' eternal snow that crowns Veleta's head.

The loftiest heights of the Sierra Nevada are those called Mulhacen and Picacho de Veleta.

NOTE 13.

The wounded sought a shelter and expired.

It is known to be a frequent occurrence in battle, that the dying and the wounded drag themselves, as it were mechanically, to the shelter which may be afforded by any bush or thicket on the field.

NOTE 14.

Severely beauteous.

"Severe in youthful beauty." -Milton.

NOTE 15.

While streams, that bear thee treasures in their wave. Granada stands upon two hills, separated by the Darro. The Genil runs under the walls. The Darro is said to carry with its stream small particles of gold, and the Genil, of silver. When Charles V. came to Granada with the Empress Isabella, the city presented him with a crown, made of gold which had been collected from the Darro.-See Bourgoanne's and other Travels.

NOTE 16.

The hearts of warriors echo to its call.

"At this period, while the inhabitants of Granada were sunk in indolence, one of those men, whose natural and impassioned eloquence has sometimes aroused a people to deeds of heroism, raised his voice, in the midst of the city, and awakened the inhabitants from their lethargy. Twenty thousand enthusiasts, ranged under his banners, were prepared to sally forth, with the fury of desperation, to attack the besiegers, when Abo Abdeli, more afraid of his subjects than of the enemy, resolved immediately to capitulate, and made terms with the Christians, by which it was agreed that the Moors should be allowed the free exercise of their religion and laws; should be permitted, if they thought proper, to depart unmolested with their effects to Africa; and that he himself, if he remained in Spain, should retain an extensive estate, with houses and slaves, or be granted an equivalent in money if he preferred retiring to Barbary."-See Jacob's Travels in Spain.

NOTE 17.

Azarques, Zegris, Almoradis, hear !

Azarques, Zegris, Almoradis, different tribes of the Moors of Granada, all of high distinction.

NOTE 18.

Dyed with no blood but that of hostile bands.

The conquest of Granada was greatly facilitated by the civil dissensions which, at this period, prevailed in the city. Several of the Moorish tribes, influenced by private feuds, were fully prepared for submission to the Spaniards; others had embraced the cause of Muley el Zagal, the uncle and competitor for the throne of Abdallah (or Abo Abdeli), and all was jealousy and animosity.

NOTE 19.

When Tarik's bands o'erspread the western shore.

Tarik, the first leader of the Arabs and Moors into Spain."The Saracens landed at the pillar or point of Europe: the corrupt and familiar appellation of Gibraltar (Gebel al Tarik) describes the mountain of Tarik, and the intrenchments of his camp were the first outline of those fortifications, which, in the hands of our countrymen, have resisted the art and power of the House of Bourbon. The adjacent governors informed the court of Toledo of the descent and progress of the Arabs; and the defeat of his lieutenant, Edeco, who had been commanded to seize and bind the presumptuous strangers, first admonished Roderic of the magnitude of the danger. At the royal summons, the dukes and counts, the bishops and nobles of the Gothic monarchy, assembled at the head of their followers; and the title of king of the Romans, which is employed by an Arabic historian, may be excused by the close affinity of language, religion, and manners, between the nations of Spain." - Gibbon's Decline and Fall, &c. vol. ix. pp. 472, 473.

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Besides the resource of despair, he confided in the secret correspondence and nocturnal interviews of count Julian with the sons and the brother of Witiza. The two princes, and the archbishop of Toledo, occupied the most important post: their well-timed defection broke the ranks of the Christians; each warrior was prompted by fear or suspicion to consult his personal safety; and the remains of the Gothic army were scattered or destroyed in the flight and pursuit of the three following days."-Gibbon's Decline and Fall, &c. vol. ix. pp. 473, 474.

NOTE 21.

And Afric's tecbir swell'd through yielding Spain. The techir, the shout of onset used by the Saracens in battle.

NOTE 22.

Your king hath yielded! Valour's dream is o'er. The terrors occasioned by this sudden excitement of popular feeling seem even to have accelerated Abo Abdeli's capitulation. "Aterrado Abo Abdeli con el alboroto, y temiendo no ser ya el Dueno de un pueblo amotinado, se apresuró á concluir una capitulacion, la menos dura que podia obtener en tan urgentes circunstancias, y ofreció entregar á Granada el dia seis de Enero."Paseos en Granada, vol. i. p. 298.

NOTE 23.

Ye, that around the oaken cross of yore.

The oaken cross, carried by Pelagius in battle.

NOTE 24.

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.

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 Count Ferran Gonzalez, and that they came there to call up King Don Ferrando the Great, who lay buried in that church, that he might go with them to deliver Spain. And on the morrow that great battle of the Navas de Tolosa was fought, wherein sixty thousand of the misbelievers were slain, which was one of the greatest and noblest battles ever won over the Moors."Southey's Chronicle of the Cid.

NOTE 26.

O realm of evening !

The name of Andalusia, the region of evening or of the west, was applied by the Arabs, not only to the province so called, but to the whole peninsula.

NOTE 27.

What banner streams afar from Vela's tower ?

"En este dia, para siempre memorable, los estandartes de la Cruz, de St. Iago, y de los Reyes de Castilla se tremoláron sobre la torre mas alta, llamada de la Vela; y un exercito prosternado, inundandose en lagrimas de gozo y reconocimiento, asistió al mas glorioso de los espectaculos." -Paseos en Granada, vol. i. p. 599.

NOTE 28.

They reach those towers-irregularly vast
And rude they seem, in mould barbaric cast.

Swinburne, after describing the noble palace built by Charles V. in the precincts of the Alhambra, thus proceeds: "Adjoining (to the north) stands a huge heap of as ugly buildings as can well be