Coiiuunnicatious from Spanish Caiicioiicros. 83 



2^6 veiz que uos plau lo meu servir 



ad altra part que be no voleu. 



Ay senyora, si duptau 

 per que millor me conezau, 

 ;;o manau me 90 qvie a uos plau, 



car servidor me trobareu. 



Notes. 



I. 3 sicrvo for sirvo is found in other Spanish texts, e. g. Berceo, 

 Missa 283 ; Fuero Juzgo 85, 87. 



4 fic and 13, 22, 29 ficc are both current in Aragonese and 

 Navarrese documents. Cf. Hanssen, Conjug. Arag. 1896, p. 19, and 

 Menendez Pidal, Manual (2 d ed.) 107, 4 b. 



6 voluntat frequent in the sense of corazon. Cf. e. g. in our text 

 the Catalan instances 1. 89 and 185, 204 (yolcr). Conversely, corazon 

 means •'will," "desire," as e. g. in Old Portuguese, for which see 

 Denis, p. 120 and s. v. coracom. 



25 iuge for juez is one of the numerous French loan-words 

 occurring in Navarrese. 



28 loarfc = loar-te-he. cf. 61 jfcrvos c. 



29 Suelgo from soler is met with elsewhere in Old Spanish, as 

 in Libro de Alixandre (ed. Morel-Fatio), c. 380, b. 



30 uiillorar. Forms with // for Castilian j are regular in Navarre, 

 Aragon, and Catalonia. See fill in 1. 148 and millor in 1. 236 of 

 our text. 



Rhyme-order : abbaa ; cddcabb AA, with the two last lines 

 of the estribillo repeated as refrain. The same form occurs in M, 

 p. 258-9, but neither elsewhere in Nieva, nor in O. 



II. 46 In view of the forms posso dicer, which are not used in 

 Navarre and Aragon, so far as I know, one may be inclined to 

 agree with Mrs. Vasconcellos (Zeitschrift fiir roman. Philol. 28, 213) 

 in considering this poem as originally composed in Galician, and 

 consequently entitled to a place in my Cancioneiro Gallego- Caste Ihano., 

 an opinion which is supported by sento for siento in 1. 33 and the form 

 convienc in 1. 34 which disturbs the metre. Unfortunately, the very 

 unsatisfactory condition of the text, due no doubt largely to the igno- 

 rance of the copyist, but to some extent probably also to the author's 



246 nos p. 247 que n. v. be. 



