His Birth 35 Letter to Perez de Guzman 36 His Death 38 His Cántigas 39 Galician Dialect 40 Querellas and Tesoro 44 His Ultramar 45 Castilian Prose 46 Fuero Juzgo 47 Setenario 49 Espejo 49 Fuero Real 49 Siete Partidas 49 Character of Alfonso 54 CHAPTER IV. LORENZO SEGURA AND DON JUAN MANUEL. Juan Lorenzo Segura 56 His Anachronisms 57 His Alexandro 58 Los Votos del Pavon 60 Sancho el Bravo 61 Don Juan Manuel 61 His Life 62 His Works 64 Letter to his Brother 68 His Counsels to his Son 69 His Book of the Knight 69 His Conde Lucanor 70 His Character 74 CHAPTER V. ALFONSO THE ELEVENTH.--ARCHPRIEST OF HITA.--ANONYMOUS POEMS.--THE CHANCELLOR AYALA. Alfonso the Eleventh 76 Poetical Chronicle 77 Beneficiado de Ubeda 78 Archpriest of Hita 78 His Works 79 His Character 84 Rabbi Don Santob 86 La Doctrina Christiana 88 Una Revelacion 88 La Dança General 89 Fernan Gonzalez 91 Poema de José 95 Rimado de Palacio 99 Castilian Literature thus far 103 Its Religious Tone 103 Its Loyal Tone 103 Its Popular Character 104 CHAPTER VI. OLD BALLADS. Popular Literature 106 Four Classes of it 108 First Class, Ballads 108 Theories of their Origin 109 Not Arabic 110 National and Indigenous 111 Redondillas 111 Asonantes 112 Easy Measure and Structure 113 General Diffusion 114 Their Name 115 Their History 116 Their great Number 118 Preserved by Tradition 119 When first printed 120 First Ballad-book 126 Other Ballad-books 128 Romancero General 128 Not to be arranged by Date 129 CHAPTER VII. OLD BALLADS CONCLUDED.