Fonte frida, fonte frida, Fonte frida, y con amor, Do todas las avezicas Van tomar consolacion, Sino es la tortolica, Que esta biuda y con dolor. Por ay fue a passar El traydor del ruyseñor; Las palabras que el dezia Llenas son de traicion: “Si tu quisiesses, Señora, Yo seria tu seruidor.” “Vete de ay, enemigo, Malo, falso, engañador, Que ni poso en ramo verde Ni en prado que tenga flor; Que si hallo el agua clara, Turbia la bebia yo: Que no quiero aver marido, Porque hijos no haya, no; No quiero plazer con ellos, Ni menos consolacion. Dejame, triste enemigo, Malo, falso, mal traidor, Que no quiero ser tu amiga, Ni casar contigo, no.” The other is as follows:-- “Rosa fresca, Rosa fresca, Tan garrida y con amor; Quando yos tuve en mis brazos, No vos supe servir, no! Y agora quos serviria, No vos puedo aver, no!” “Vuestra fue la culpa, amigo, Vuestra fue, que mia, no! Embiastes me una carta, Con un vuestro servidor, Y en lugar de recaudar, El dixera otra razon: Querades casado, amigo, Alla en tierras de Leon; Que teneis muger hermosa, Y hijos como una flor.” “Quien os lo dixo, Señora, No vos dixo verdad, no! Que yo nunca entre en Castilla, Ni alla en tierras de Leon, Si no quando era pequeño, Que no sabia de amor.” Several of the other anonymous ballads in this little collection are not less curious and ancient, among which may be noted those beginning, “Decidme vos pensamiento,”--“Que por Mayo era por Mayo,”--and “Durandarte, Durandarte,”--together with parts of those beginning, “Triste estaba el caballero,” and “Amara yo una Señora.”[192] Most of the rest, and all whose authors are known, are of less value and belong to a later period. [192] These ballads are in the edition of 1535, on ff. 109, 111, and 113. The Cancionero of Castillo, where they appeared, was enlarged and altered in eight subsequent editions, the last of which was published in 1573; but in all of them this little collection of ballads, as originally printed in the first edition, remained by itself, unchanged, though in the additions of newer poetry a modern ballad is occasionally inserted.[193] It may, therefore, be doubted whether the General Cancioneros did much to attract attention to the ballad poetry of the country, especially when we bear in mind that they are almost entirely filled with the works of the conceited school of the period that produced them, and were probably little known except among the courtly classes, who placed small value on what was old and national in their poetical literature.[194] [193] One of the most spirited of these later ballads in the edition of 1573, begins thus (f. 373):--