"'After the great battle of Navarette, when Henry of Transtamare had
relieved his brother, King Pedro, of the troublesome burden of the
crown,
"'And likewise of that still more troublesome burden, which is called
life, then Don Henry's victorious magnanimity had to deal with his
brother's children.
"'He has adopted them, as an uncle should; and he has given them free
quarters in his own castle.
"'The room which he has assigned to them is certainly rather small, but
then it is cool in summer, and not intolerably cold in winter.
"'Their fare is rye-bread, which tastes as sweet as if the goddess Ceres
had baked it express for her beloved Proserpine.
"'Not unfrequently, too, he sends a scullion to them with
garbanzos,[173]and then the young gentlemen know that it is Sunday in
Spain.
"'But it is not Sunday every day, and garbanzos do not come every day;
and the master of the hounds gives them the treat of his whip.
"'For the master of the hounds, who has under his superintendence the
kennels and the pack, and the nephews' cage also,
"'Is the unfortunate husband of that lemon-faced woman with the white
ruff, whom we remarked to-day at dinner.
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