[1] Colonial.
[2] The Story "Where One may Dine Two may Dine" is a particular
illustration of this.
[3] Moorish palace.
[4] Good Cowherdess.
[5] Female pilgrim.
[6] Moorish castle.
[7] Silly Johnny.
[8] Mirandola está mirando
Que bien era de mirar;
Blanca es como la nieve
Y como lo claro cristal,
Colorada como la rosa
Y como rosa de rosal.
[9] If God so will, it may rain with a clear sky.
[10] It was completed 1364.
[11] Ornamented iron-work in front of the lower windows of Spanish
houses.
[12] A warm hunting-cap, with flaps to cover the forehead and ears,
capable therefore of serving, in some sort, as a disguise.
[13] The Sevillians to the present day give a very bad character to
the Valencians.
[14] A spreading vine, trained along a horizontal trellis, so as to
form a shady arbour; an unfailing adjunct to most houses in the south
of Spain.
[15] Blunderbuss.
[16] A large covered waggon drawn by mules, in which luggage
and passengers were conveyed together in Spain. Still in use in
out-of-the-way places.
[17] The bell tolled a death knell.
[18] In some parts of Spain where there is no arena for the bull
fights, they are held in some large open space, called a Cosa. The
Cosa at Zaragoza is a broad open street of the best houses, planted
with trees.
[19] Marriages are celebrated in the evening in Spain.
[20] Toll--for a funeral service.
[21] Every one smokes at all hours in Spain. It is the custom at many
barbers' and tobacconists' shops to have a piece of lighted mecha,
or plaited tow, hanging outside the door for the convenience of their
customers, who may want to light their cigars.
[22] It is a common custom in Spain to receive friends, and even
transact business in your box at the theatre.
[23] Covetousness bursts the money-bag.
[24] Hato, a portion of provisions taken out with them by shepherds
when they have to be absent from home in the mountains for several
days together.
[25] Simancas is situated at the confluence of the Douro and Pisuergo,
not far from Valladolid. The archives of Spain were kept there for
centuries, in a strong alcázar originally built by the Moors.
[26] An equivalent for our "Before you could say 'Jack Robinson,'"
though I have never been able to make out the derivation of either
tilin or "Jack Robinson."
[27] "Nothing goes right with the unlucky."
[28] Little earthen pot.
[29] "May your worship live a thousand years!"--a common salutation,
equivalent to "God grant you long life!"
[30] "More surely than the clock," i.e., as irrevocably as time as
we should say, "as sure as a gun."
[31] There used to be several sinecure offices in Spain, the symbol
of which was a silver key slung over the pocket-flap on the left side.
[32] Large earthen pot, used by the Spanish peasants for cooking.
[33] Esparto grass is a fibrous plant which grows in great abundance
in the south of Spain; it is imported into this country under the
name of Spanish broom, and is used for making rope, canvas, mats,
paper, and for many other useful purposes.
[34] Nice little children.
[35] The Carnation.
[36] Entre los árboles todos
se señorea el laurel
entre las mujeres, Ana
entre los flores, el clavel.
[37] En énero no hay claveles
porque los marchita el hielo
en tu cara los hay siempre
porque lo permite el cielo.
[38] El encarnado clavel
viene publicando agravios
porque no le han hecho á el
hermoso como tus labios.
[39] El clavel que tu mi diste
el día de la Ascension
no fué clavel, sino clavo
que clavó mi corazon.
[40] En una teja de su casa
crió mi niño un clavel
y quando á su vera pasa
le da un besito en la sien.
[41] Tengo un clavel encarnado
á la sombra y bajo llave
para que el sol no lo vea
y con mirarlo lo aje.
[42] Pipkin.
[43] A name employed in Andalusia to designate a person who wears
the national costume with great ostentation of correctness, and is
altogether what we should term showy.
[44] See p. 68 and note.
[45] On is the Spanish augmentative.
[46] A tall fibrous plant, which covers whole plains in the south
of Spain, so called because its spreading leaves give it a certain
resemblance to dwarf palms.
[47] The Sierra Almagrera is near Cartagena. The mine whose riches
have been thus celebrated in a popular tale for many a century,
is just now being vigorously worked by an Anglo-French company.
[48] Literally, a saw. Spaniards call a ridge of mountains so, from
the resemblance of the outline to the teeth of a saw.
[49] "In the season of figs no one remembers his friends." In other
words, though when in want men gladly remember their acquaintance
that they may apply to them for assistance, in prosperity they are
as anxious to forget them, that they may not be called upon to spend
for them.
[50] "In the frying, you shall see." Equivalent to our "The proof of
the pudding's in the eating." The following is told as the origin
of this Spanish proverb:--A good housewife having frequently had
occasion to find fault with the quality of the charcoal the village
dealer sold her, was highly delighted when another one set up who
professed to sell a better kind. "But how am I to know yours is any
better?" inquired she. "Al freir, lo vereis" ("when you come to fry
with it you will see if it doesn't give a clear fire"), he replied,
for as his wares were good they needed only to be proved: taberna vieja
no necesita rama: good wine, or, more literally, an old established
tavern, needs no bush.
[51] A short wooden column supporting an alms-box in Spanish churches.
[52] The name given to a boy serving as guide to a blind man.
[53] The Spanish sprat found in great abundance in the Mediterranean,
called sardina, much larger than ours, those selected for frying
being generally five or six inches long.
[54] Sister.
[55] A vine trained so as to make an out-door sitting-room.
[56] "More certain than the clock, man."
[57] Large folding dagger-knife.
[58] Little town.
[59] Bank of wild thyme.
[60] "While in my arms I hold thee,
I ask myself alway,
What fate I leave thee to, child,
If call'd by death away."
[61] Aunt. It is also a title of respect and endearment, much in use
between intimate friends, especially among the lower orders in Spain.
[62] Ochavo, a coin about equal to a farthing.
[63] Clergyman of the parish.
[64] Man. An ejaculation with which the Spaniard frequently interlards
his conversation.
[65] As we should say, "like winking."
[66] Your worship.
[67] "I should think she did know how to cook indeed!"
[68] Earthen pots.
[69] Something like our forcemeat-balls.
[70] A sweetmeat in as general adoption in Spain as our toffy.
[71] Sweetmeat composed of pounded almonds and honey.
[72] There is so little trace of flesh meat in it that it was allowed
on fast-days.
[73] Tamaño como del codo á la mano.
[74] "... Su dotrina así alumbro
Que hace ver á los ciegos."
[75] Dumas has indulged his wit at the expense of the unfortunate
river, and tells us that his son, being overcome by heat one day
at the opera, the bystanders brought him a glass of water; but he
refused it with admirable self-sacrifice, exclaiming, "Take it to
the poor Manzanáres, its necessities are greater than mine."
[76] A long, thin, pointed stick.
[77] Melena is used to signify shaggy hair, when peasants or others
leave it uncut and uncombed.
[78] Though neither of the persons in this piece are Spanish, nor the
scene laid in the Peninsula, it is thoroughly Spanish in character,
and the subject of one or two popular ballads, and several dramas,
by the best authors.
[79] Dark green (lit. black-green).
[80] A small coasting-boat, carrying only a boom sail.
[81] A word borrowed from the Turkish, to signify a dungeon, and used
when speaking of a Turkish prison.
[82] Moorish palace.
[83] A Spanish game, forming a sort of mock tournament, the combatants
being armed with canes instead of lances.
[84] A Spanish game, consisting in pelting each other with alcancías,
or round earthen pots, in which flowers and other things were enclosed
before they were baked (in the sun), and which fell out when broken
against the shield of those at whom they were thrown. I do not know
if these games were also in use in Venice, or if their introduction
here is a vulgar error.
[85] A common practice of Spaniards, even in street fights, to the
present day.
[86] A formidable leader of the Moors in Spain of the tenth and
eleventh centuries.
[87] Como el sándalo que perfuma el hacha que le hiere.
[88] La confianza en Dios y los pies en la calle.
[89] "Un convidado convida a ciento."
[90] Cork-trees.
[91] "La fortuna es por quien la encuentra y no por quien la busca."
[92] A kind of notary or attorney, who is spoken of in the popular
language of Spain with as much abhorrence as the "publican" in
the Gospel.
[93] Agachó las orejas--a metaphor which readily suggests itself in
a country where donkeys and mules are so much in use.
[94] The soil of the bed of the Tagus is a yellow sand, which gives
its water rather a muddy appearance. Poets, however, see things with
a different eye from ordinary mortals, and have turned it to gold
in their verses: "el dorado Tajo," the golden Tagus, is their common
appellation for it.
[95] Majorca.
[96] La Sierra Nevada traverses the centre of Granada.
[97] The noise and tumult of the Moors' war-cry.
[98] Foreign.
[99] Dear little ring.
[100] Good little shepherd.
[101] Sir Country-bumpkin.
[102] Little princess.
[103] Child.
[104] Proud little thing.
[105] Small leathern bottle, hung from the saddle in travelling.
[106] Santon is a term used in Spanish for a person professing a life
of austerity among the Moors.
[107] The letter F in Spanish is pronounced fé, and fé is the Spanish
for faith.
[108] Baptism and Extreme Unction, taken to typify the Christian law.
[109] Now Hayti.
[110] Large jars.
[111] Puren distinguished himself so much by his courage in these wars,
that Alvárez de Toledo, a captain in the Spanish army in Araucania,
composed a poem on him, entitled, "Puren indomito."
[112] It is possible Don Ercilla here celebrates some feat of his own.
[113] Palio, a banner of bright-coloured silk or cloth, hung across the
end of the race-course among Spaniards, and given to the winner. Don
Ercilla, all through the story, seems to fill up his incidents from
Spanish manners and ideas.
[114] The Adriatic.
[115] A dollar.