The moment of the somewhat secret marriage of these illustrious persons was, moreover, so full of anxiety, that it is not at all likely _any_ show or mumming accompanied it. See Prescott’s Ferdinand and Isabella, Part I. c. 3. A nearer approach to the spirit of the drama, and particularly to the form which the secular drama first took in Spain, is to be found in the curious dialogue called “The Couplets of Mingo Revulgo”; a satire thrown into the shape of an eclogue, and given in the free and spirited language of the lower classes of the people, on the deplorable state of public affairs, as they existed in the latter part of the weak reign of Henry the Fourth. It seems to have been written about the year 1472.[414] The interlocutors are two shepherds; one of whom, called Mingo Revulgo,--a name corrupted from Domingo Vulgus,--represents the common people; and the other, called Gil Arribato, or Gil the Elevated, represents the higher classes, and speaks with the authority of a prophet, who, while complaining of the ruinous condition of the state, yet lays no small portion of the blame on the common people, for having, as he says, by their weakness and guilt, brought upon themselves so dissolute and careless a shepherd. It opens with the shouts of Arribato, who sees Revulgo at a distance, on a Sunday morning, ill dressed and with a dispirited air:-- [414] “Coplas de Mingo Revulgo,” often printed, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with the beautiful Coplas of Manrique. The editions I use are those of 1588, 1632, and the one at the end of the “Crónica de Enrique IV.,” (Madrid, 1787, 4to, ed. de la Academia,) with the commentary of Pulgar. Hollo, Revulgo! Mingo, ho! Mingo Revulgo! Ho, hollo! Why, where’s your cloak of blue so bright? Is it not Sunday’s proper wear? And where ’s your jacket red and tight? And such a brow why do you bear, And come abroad, this dawning mild, With all your hair in elf-locks wild? Pray, are you broken down with care?[415] [415] A Mingo Revulgo, Mingo! A Mingo Revulgo, hao! Que es de tu sayo de blao? No le vistes en Domingo? Que es de tu jubon bermejo? Por que traes tal sobrecejo? Andas esta madrugada La cabeza desgreñada: No te llotras de buen rejo? Copla I.