Morisco

In May, 1600, the Count of Benavente, then viceroy of Valencia, was ordered to report whether the Moriscos of that kingdom had any intelligence with France.

Ambrosio de Letinez, a fictitious hero of the early nineteenth century, accurately described the typical architecture of northern Mexico: “The style of building is the Morisco … throughout … Mexico; that is to say, the houses are almost universally one story high, with flat terrace roofs and few windows to the street. […] ”

Your wit skips a morisco; but, by the brightest spangle of tire, I vouchsafe you entire unaffected favour.

I have seen / Him caper upright like a wild Morisco, / Shaking the bloody darts as he his bells.