"Aquel que te ves estar contemplando En el movimiento de tantas estrellas, La fuerza, la bra, el orden de aquellas, Que mide los cursos de cómo y de cuando, Y ovo noticia filosofando Del movedos, y de los comovidos De fuego, de razos, de son de tronidos, Y supo las causas del mundo velando: Aquel claro padre, aquel dulce fuente, Aquel que en el Cástalo monte resuena. Es Don Enrique, Señor de Villena, Honra de España y del siglo presente. O inclito sabio, autor muy sciente! Otra y aun otra vegado te lloro, Porque Castillo perdio tal tesoro No conveido delante la gente Perdio los tus libros sin sea conveidos Y como en exequias te fueron ya luego Unos metidos al avido fuego, Y otros sin orden no bien repartidos. Cierto en Atenas los libros fingidos Que de Protagoras se reprobaron Con armenia mejor se quemaron Cuando al senado le fueron leidos." Here as elsewhere the nobles and people of Toledo were constantly at loggerheads, though it would be difficult to say on which side reason preponderated. Now it was the Silvas who sided with the rebels, then the Ayalas who opened the city gates to them. One Ayala, mayor of the town, rode to meet an invading infante; the infante reproached him insolently, on which Ayala flung back his words, and turning rode into Toledo to shut the gates in his face. They were not to be trifled with, these haughty Toledans. In a measure their prince was their valet, and was subject to insult upon provocation. The same may be said of the artisans. There exists a Toledan proverb: "Soplaré el odrero alborazarse ha Toledo." Let the ironmonger (or pot-maker) blow and Toledo will rise up. This proverb dates from the time of John II., who begged the Toledans to supply him with a certain amount of maravedis towards the expenses of his wars with Aragon and Navarre. The people indignantly refused, and the first to hiss the Toledan note of revolt was a maker of iron pots. Previously someone had discovered a Gothic inscription which proved that the ironmongers of Gothic days were the centre of urban revolution, hence the proverb proving their traditional contumelious disposition.