[96] “Y ansi entraron en la ciudad, y subieron al Alhambra, y encima de
la torre de Comares tan famosa se levantò la señal de la Santa Cruz,
y luego el real estandarte de los dos Christianos reyes. Y al punto
los reyes de armas, à grandes bozes dizieron, ‘Granada! Granada! por
su magestad, y por la reyna su muger.’ La serenissima reyna D. Isabel,
que viò ia señal de la Santa Cruz sobre la hermosa torre de Comares, y
el su estandarte real con ella, se hincò de rodillas, y diò infinitas
gracias à Dios por la victoria que le avia dado contra aquella gran
ciudad. La musica real de la capilla del rey luego à canto de organo
cantò _Te Deum laudamus_. Fuè tan grande el plazer que todos lloravan.
Luego del Alhambra sonaron mil instrumentos de musica de belicas
trompetas. Los Moros amigos del rey, que querian ser Christianos, cuya
cabeza era el valeroso Muça, tomaron mil dulzaynas y añafiles, sonando
grande ruydo de atambores por toda la ciudad.”--_Historia de las
Guerras Civiles de Granada._
[97] “Los cavalleros Moros que avemos dicho, aquella noche jugaron
galanamente alcancias y cañas. Andava Granada aquella noche con
tanta alegria, y con tantas luminarias, que parecia que se ardia la
terra.”--_Historia de las Guerras Civiles de Granada._
Swinburne, in his Travels through Spain, in the years 1775 and 1776,
mentions, that the anniversary of the surrender of Granada to Ferdinand
and Isabella was still observed in the city as a great festival and day
of rejoicing; and that the populace on that occasion paid an annual
visit to the Moorish palace.
[98] “Los Gomeles todos se passeron en Africa, y el Rey Chico con
ellos, que no quisò estar en España, y en Africa le mataron los Moros
de aquellas partes, porque perdiò a Granada.”--_Guerras Civiles de
Granada._
[99] Abo Abdeli, upon leaving Granada, after its conquest by Ferdinand
and Isabella, stopped on the hill of Padul to take a last look of his
city and palace. Overcome by the sight, he burst into tears, and was
thus reproached by his mother, the Sultaness Ayxa,--“Thou dost well to
weep like a woman, over the loss of that kingdom which thou knewest not
how to defend and die for like a man.”
[100] “El rey mandò, que si quedavan Zegris, que no viviessen en
Granada, por la maldad qui hizieron contra los Abencerrages.”--_Guerras
Civiles de Granada._
[101] “The Alpuxarras are so lofty that the coast of Barbary, and the
cities of Tangier and Ceuta, are discovered from their summits; they
are about seventeen leagues in length, from Veles Malaga to Almeria,
and eleven in breadth, and abound with fruit trees of great beauty and
prodigious size. In these mountains the wretched remains of the Moors
took refuge.”--Bourgoanne’s _Travels in Spain_.
[102] “Plût à Dieu que je craignisse!”--_Andromaque._
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