[66] Francisco Alvarez, _Verd. Inf._, p. 125, speaks of _cantigas de bailhos e de terreiro_ (dance-songs). [67] Cf. Barros, _Dial. em lovvor da nossa ling._, 1785 ed., p. 226: _Pois as cantigas compostas do povo, sem cabeça, sem pees, sem nome ou verbo que se entenda, quem cuidas que as traz e leva da terra? Quem as faz serem tratadas e recebidas do comum consintimento? O tempo._ § 2. _The Cancioneiros_ If, besides the _Cancioneiros da Vaticana_, _Colocci-Brancuti_, and _da Ajuda_, we include King Alfonso X’s _Cantigas de Santa Maria_ (C. M.) we have over 2,000 poems, by some 200 poets. Of these the _Cancioneiro da Ajuda_ (C. A.) contains 310. Preserved in the Lisbon _Collegio dos Nobres_ and later in the Royal Library of Ajuda at Lisbon, it was first published in an edition of twenty-five copies by Charles Stuart (afterwards Lord Stuart of Rothesay), British Minister at Lisbon (C. A. S.). Another edition, by Varnhagen, appeared in 1849 (C. A. V.), and the splendid definitive edition by D. Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcellos in 1904 (C. A. M. V.). C. A. M. V. contains 467 poems, in part reproduced from C. V. M. and C. C. B. The third volume, of notes, is still unpublished. Of the _Cancioneiro_ preserved as Codex Vaticanus 4803, and now commonly known as _Cancioneiro da Vaticana_ (C. V.), fragments were published soon after its rediscovery: viz. that portion attributed to King Dinis, edited by Moura in 1847 (C. D. M.). This part received a critical edition at the hands of Professor H. R. Lang in 1892; 2nd ed., with introduction, Halle, 1894 (C. D. L.). A few more crumbs were given to the world by Varnhagen in 1870, 2nd ed. 1872 (C. T. A.), and in 1873 (C. A. P.) and 1875 (C. L.) by Ernesto Monaci, who printed his diplomatic edition of the complete text (1,205 poems) in the latter year (C. V. M.), and with it an index of a still larger _Cancioneiro_ (it has 1,675 entries) compiled by Angelo Colocci in the sixteenth century and discovered by Monaci in the Vatican Library (codex 3217). Dr. Theophilo Braga’s critical edition appeared in 1878 (C. V. B.).