| REY DON SANCHO ... | BALLAD |
| Anon. (15c.) | trans. Brian Cole |
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'¡Rey don Sancho, rey don Sancho, no digas que no te aviso, que de dentro de Zamora un alevoso ha salido! Llámase Vellido Dolfos, hijo de Dolfos Vellido; cuatro traiciones ha hecho y con ésta serán cinco. Si gran traidor fue el padre mayor traidor es el hijo.' Gritos dan en el real: '¡A don Sancho han mal herido! ¡Muerto le ha Vellido Dolfos, gran traición ha cometido!' Desque le tuviera muerto metióse por un postigo; por las calles de Zamora va dando voces y gritos: '¡Tiempo era, doña Urraca, de cumplir lo prometido!' |
"Good king Sancho, good king Sancho, don't say I didn't warn you that from the city of Zamora a traitor has appeared! He is called Vellido Dolfos, son of Dolfos Vellido; he has committed four betrayals - with this one there'll be five. How great a traitor was the father, the son is even worse." Cries arose then in the camp: "They've wounded good King Sancho! Vellido Dolfos killed the king - he has committed treason!" When the body had been found, he went out through a gate, and in the streets all through Zamora he goes shouting and calling: "It was time, my Lady Urraca, to carry out my promise!" |
Transl. Copyright © Brian Cole, 2005