quoted in the Second Part of _Don Quixote_. This _romance_, as Sr. Menéndez y Pelayo thinks, is derived from a _cantar de gesta_ written after the compilation of the _Crónica general_. Of the Bernardo _romances_ printed in Duran’s collection four are by Lorenzo de Sepúlveda, four by Gabriel Lobo Lasso de la Vega, and three by Lucas Rodríguez. Lockhart’s four examples are all modern, and his renderings are not specially successful; but in the original the first of the four— Con tres mil y mas leoneses deja la ciudad Bernardo[20]— is a capital imitation of a popular ballad. It makes its earliest appearance in the 1604 edition of the _Romancero general_, and that is enough to prove its modernity. Another modern ballad, which is also first found in the _Romancero general_, is translated by Lockhart under the title of _The Maiden Tribute_. Neither the translation nor the original— En consulta estaba un dia con sus grandes y consejo[21]— calls for comment. A similar legend is associated with the name of Fernán González, the hero of the eighth poem in Lockhart’s book. Fernán González, Count of Castile, was an historical personage more remarkable as a political strategist than as a leader in the field. However, he makes a gallant figure in the _Poema de Fernán González_, a thirteenth-century poem written in the _quaderna vía_, which appears to have been imitated a hundred years later by the French author of _Hernaut de Beaulande_. But no extant _romance_ on Fernán González is based on the _Poema_. The ballad translated by Lockhart— Preso está Fernán González el gran conde de Castilla[22]— comes from the _Estoria del noble caballero Fernán González_, a popular arrangement of the _Crónica general_ as recast in 1344. The _romance_ is a good enough piece of work, but it is more modern than the ballad beginning Buen conde Fernán González el rey envia por vos;[23] and this last _romance_ is less interesting than another ballad of the same period:— Castellanos y leoneses tienen grandes divisiones.[24] Both of these are thought to represent a lost epic which was worked into the _Crónica general_ of 1344. Lockhart prints translations of two _romances_ relating to the Infantes of Lara, one of them being modern,[25] and the other the famous A cazar va don Rodrigo y aun don Rodrigo de Lara.[26] This was quoted by Sancho Panza, and—as M. Foulché-Delbosc was the first to point out—it has had the distinction of being splendidly adapted by Victor Hugo in the _Orientales_ (xxx.) under the fantastic title of _Romance Mauresque_:— Don Rodrigue est à la chasse Sans épée et sans cuirasse, Un jour d’été, vers midi, Sous la feuillée et sur l’herbe Il s’assied, l’homme superbe, Don Rodrigue le hardi.