CHAPTER VI.

OLD BALLADS.

Popular Literature 106

Four Classes of it 108

First Class, Ballads 108

Theories of their Origin 109

Not Arabic 110

National and Indigenous 111

Redondillas 111

Asonantes 112

Easy Measure and Structure 113

General Diffusion 114

Their Name 115

Their History 116

Their great Number 118

Preserved by Tradition 119

When first printed 120

First Ballad-book 126

Other Ballad-books 128

Romancero General 128

Not to be arranged by Date 129

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