CHAPTER VI

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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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