res.#

199-226. In these lines the idea of "predestined love" is exemplified.

204. #sus#, _their_ (#del hombre y de la mujer#).

213-214. #antes ... vernos = antes de vernos, nos amabamos.#

219-222. A similar idea was expressed in the corresponding four lines of
the first edition thus:

Y parecia un querer
tan firme en alma de nino,
recuerdo de otro carino
tenido antes de nacer.

223-226. These four lines may be translated thus: _the love that united
Isabel and me_ (#nuestro querer#) _when we came into this sad world
was merely the continuance_ (#seguir#) _in the physical world of the
love that already existed in the spiritual_. Compare idea expressed by
"marriages are made in heaven."

246. #aun vivo#; if the time were up, either I should have succeeded
or should now be dead.

254. #Navas de Tolosa#, village in the Province of Jaen, in the south
of Spain, famous in history because of the decisive victory gained
there, July 16, 1212, by the allied kings of Christian Spain over the
Moslems. In the first edition, at the mention of this disastrous defeat
of the Moors, Zulima interrupts Marsilla's narrative with an outburst of
feeling quite appropriate in a Mohammedan:

iLugar maldito del cielo,
donde la negra fortuna
postro de la media luna
la pujanza por el suelo!

258 et seq. In the early years of the 13th century a religious sect in
the south of France, the Albigenses, rebelled against the authority of
the Church of Rome. Pope Innocent III proclaimed a crusade against them
in 1208, and a bloody war began in which the crusaders were led by the
ruthless Simon de Montfort until his death at the siege of Toulouse
(1218). During this Albigensian War (1208-1229) Beziers and other
important cities in the south of France were almost destroyed.

267-270. #Y en pena ... sepulto = y en pena de que mi mano rompio el
hierro de mis cadenas, profundo encierro me sepulto en vida.#

281. #haz por escuchar atento#, _try to listen attentively to_ ...

293. #aqui#, in the land of the Moors.

303. #Respuesta ... de = es bien que se le de a ella respuesta.#

311-312. #Medita ... reclama#, _consider it well and you will grant
to time what it demands as its due_. If you take into consideration the
length of time that has passed since you have seen Isabel, you will
realize that she has probably forgotten you, and will become reconciled
to chan