Juan del Encina “Levanta pascual“

Juan del Encina (Salamanca, 1468 / León, 1529) Get up, Pascual, get up, let us go with our flock to Granada. They say the city is taken. Get up quickly, make haste, take your dog and your pouch, your sheepskin and your apron, your shawm and your shepherd’s crook. Let us go and see the revels in that city of renown. They say the city is taken. I trow you think you have me fooled. You’re pulling my leg, I’ll be bound! Upon my oath, more yet than you I wish that it were so. But upon my wo