[10] The changes which the name Alphonso undergoes in Spanish and Portuguese may mislead persons who are not intimate with those languages. In Spanish it is indiscriminately either _Alfonso_ or _Alonzo_; the latter form, however, is chiefly used in common life. In Portuguese, from the natural tendency of that language to omit the letter _l_, the name is invariably pronounced and written _Affonso_. [11] This poem is given by Barbosa Machado, under the head _D. Pedro I._--As it is written in the Castilian language, it would be out of place in a collection of specimens of Portuguese poetry. The Portuguese songs of Pedro I. are included in Garcia de Resende’s _Cancioneiro_. [12] The Spanish _Don_ becomes _Dom_ in Portuguese. [13] See the History of Spanish Literature, p. 49. [14] Manuel de Faria y Sousa has printed it in his _Discurso de los Sonetos_, prefixed to his _Fuente Aganippe_, that is to say, his poems, vol. i. The language and style of this sonnet are sufficiently ancient. Bom Vasco de Lobeyra, e de gram sem, de pram que vos av des hem contado, o feito de Armadis, o namorado, sem quedar ende por contarhi rem. E tanto vos aprougue, e a tambem, que vos seredes sempre ende loado, eu entre os homes hos por bo mentado, que vos eram adeante, e que hora hem. Maes porque vos fizestes a fremosa Breoranja amarendoudo hu nom amarom esto, combade, e contra sà vontade. Ca eu hey gram dò de a ver queixosa, por sa gram fremosura, e sa bondade, e ber porque o sim amor nom lho pagarom. [15] One of these sonnets is printed, as a specimen, in the before-mentioned _Discurso de los Sonetos_. There is in the antiquated diction a degree of precision which approximates to the style of the original:-- Vinha Amor por o campo trebelhando com sà fremosa Madre, e sàs donzellas; el rindo, e cheo de lédice entre ellas, ja de arco, e de sas setas nom curando. Brioranja hi a sazom sia pensando na gram coita que ella ha, e vendo aquellas setas de Amor, filha em sa mano huna dellas, e metea no arco, e vayse andando. Des hi volveo o rosto hu Amor sia. Her, disse: ay traidor que me has falido; en prenderey de ti crua vendita. Largou a mano, quedou Amor ferido: e catando a sa sestra endoa do grita, hay merce, a Brioranja que fogia. [16] See Sarmiento’s _Obras Posthumas_, p. 323.