[74] Guiraut Riquier and Nat de Mons placed Provençal poems on his lips, which may be taken as an indication that he also wrote in Provençal. As proof that he wrote poems in Castilian we have a single _cantiga_ of eight lines (C. C. B. 363: _Señora por amor dios_). The other poem of the _Cancioneiros_ in Castilian (with traces of Galician) is by the victor of Salado, Alfonso XI (1312-50), King of Castille and Leon: _En un tiempo cogi flores_ (C. V. 209). [75] Their antiquarian interest was recognized over three centuries ago. Cf. Argote de Molina, _Nobleza de Andalvzia_ (Seuilla, 1588), f. 151 v.: _es un libro de mucha curiosidad assi por la poesia como por los trages de aquella edad ̃q se veen en sus pinturas_. [76] Some of King Alfonso’s _Cantigas_ were recited in the same way. C. M. 172 implies this in the lines: Et d’esto cantar fezemos Que cantassen os iograres And of this we made a song for the _joglares_ to sing. [77] Their popular origin is borne out by the music. See H. Collet et L. Villalba, _Contribution à l’étude des Cantigas_ (1911). Cf. also P. Meyer, _Types de quelques chansons de Gautier de Coinci_ (_Romania_, vol. xvii (1888), pp. 429-37): _paroles pieuses à des mélodies profanes_. [78] Padre Nobrega came upon a crowd of _pobres pedintes peregrinos_ at Santiago feasting merrily and having _grandes contendas entre si_ as to which of them was cleverest at taking people in. The trick of one of them was to declare that, being captive in Turkey, _encommendando-me muito á Senhora ... achei-me ao outro dia ao romper da alva em terra de Christãos_ (Simão de Vasconcellos, _Cronica_, Lib. I, § 22). Cf. Jeronymo de Mendoça, _Jornada de Africa_, 1904 ed., ii. 34, and Frei Luis de Sousa, _Hist. de S. Domingos_, I. i. 5. [79] i. e. besides the Spanish _cantiga_ (C. C. B. 363), C. C. B. 359, which belongs to the _Cantigas de Santa Maria_, and C. C. B. 372, which consists of a single line. [80] _El Rei aia tres jograes en sa casa e non mais._ [81] Riquier’s _segriers per totas cortz_ (King Alfonso X (C. M. 194) speaks of a _jograr andando pelas cortes_). See also C. V. 556. The word probably has no connexion with _seguir_ (to follow). Possibly it was used originally to differentiate singers of profane songs, _cantigas profanas e seculares_. Frei João Alvarez in his _Cronica do Infante Santo_ has ‘obras ecclesiasticas e _segrãaes_’; King Duarte counted among _os pecados da boca_ ‘cantar cantigas _sagraaes_’, The _Cancioneiros_ show that the _segrel_ was far less common than the _jogral_ in the thirteenth century. For _segre_ (= _saeculum_) see _infra_, p. 93, n. 2. [82] For instances see H. R. Lang, _The Relations of the Earliest Portuguese Lyric School with the Troubadours and Trouvères_ (_Modern Language Notes_ (April, 1895), pp. 207-31), and C. D. L., pp. xlviii et seq.