[30] Kazwînî ap. Reinhart Dozy, _Spanish Islam_, trans. F. G. Stokes, London, 1913, p. 663. [31] C. A. 38. It is a _cantiga de meestria_, of two verses, each of eight octosyllabic lines (_abbaccde bfbaccde_). [32] Although neither English nor Portuguese, it is a name for these poems, of lines _pariter plangentes_, less clumsy than _parallelistic songs_ adopted by Professor Henry R. Lang (who also uses the words _serranas_--but see C. D. L., p. cxxxviii, note 2; Dr. Theophilo Braga had called them _serranilhas_--and _Verkettungslieder_), _Parallelstrophenlieder_ (D. Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcellos), _cantigas parallelisticas_ (D. Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcellos and Snr. J. J. Nunes), _chansons à répétitions_ (M. Alfred Jeanroy). _Cantos dualisticos_, _cantos de danza prima_, and _bailadas encadeadas_ have also been proposed. [33] Perhaps = rhyme (_consoante_), but more probably it is derived from _cosso_, an enclosed place, which would be used for dancing: cf. Cristobal de Castillejo, _Madre, un caballero Que estaba en este cosso (bailia)_. In the _Relacion de los fechos del mui magnifico é mas virtuoso señor el señor Don Miguel Lucas_ [_de Iranzo_] _mui digno Condestable de Castilla_, p. 446 (A.D. 1470), occurs the following passage: _Y despues de danzar cantaron un gran rato de cosante_ (_Memorial Histórico Español_, tom. viii, Madrid, 1855). Rodrigo Cota, in the _Diálogo entre el Amor y un Viejo_, has _danças y corsantes_, and Antón de Montoro (el Ropero) asks _un portugues que vido vestido de muchos colores_ if he is a _cantador de corsante_ (v. l. _cosante_) (_Canc. General_, ed. Biblióf. Esp., ii. 270, no. 1018). [34] In the _Grundriss_ (1894), _Randglossen_ (1896-1905), and especially vol. ii of the _Cancioneiro da Ajuda_ (1904). [35] Or _Solo ramo verde granado_: the green branch in (red) flower. [36] Translations of Chinese poems resembling the _cossantes_ are given by Dr. Theophilo Braga, C. V. B., _Introd._, p. ci, and Professor H. R. Lang, C. D. L., _Introd._, p. cxlii. A Provençal poem with resemblance to a _cossante_ is printed in Bartsch, p. 62: _Li tensz est bels, les vinnesz sont flories_. [37] Any one who has heard peasants at a _Stabat_ singing the hymn Stabat Mater dolorosa _Jussa crussa larimosa Du penebat_ Filius realizes that the words for them have no meaning, but that they will long remember tune and rhythm. Compare, for the form, the Latin hymn to the Virgin by the Breton poet Adam de Saint Victor (†1177): Salve Verbi sacra parens, Flos de spinis spinis carens, Flos spineti gloria.