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Identifier: storiesofpersons00bene (find matches)
Title: Stories of persons and places in Europe
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Benedict, E. L. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, London, G. Routledge and sons
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that the Cids barley had failed him and he fled away. And they saidamong themselves, let us pursue them and spoil them, for if they of Terulshould be before us the honor and the profit will be theirs and we shall havenothing. And they went out after him, great and little, leaving the gatesopen and shouting as they went; and there was not left in the town a manwho could bear arms. And when my Cid saw them coming he gave orders to quicken theirspeed, as if he was in fear, and would not let his people turn till the Moorswere far enough from the town. But when he saw that there was a gooddistance between them and the gates, then he bade his banner turn andspurred towards them crying, Lay on knights ; by Gods mercy the spoilis our own. In one hour three hundred Moors were slain, and the Cid got betweenthem and the Castle and stood in the gateway, sword in hand, and therewas great mortality among the Moors. And my Cid won the place and plantedhis banner upon the highest point of the Castle.
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THE ALCAZAR AT SEGOVIA. 330 Persons and Places in Europe. • u But when the Moorish kings heard of this they came up with a ffreatforce against the Cid and beseiged him, as he had the natives of the Castleuntil he had no bread or water for his men. Then he called his followersand said to them, Ye see that the Moors have cut off our water, and wehave but little bread; they gather numbers day bv dav, and we becomeweak. JNow, if it please you, let us go out and fight with them, thoughthey be many m number, and either defeat them or die an honorable death «bo they went out with their shields over their hearts, and their lanceslowered. < Many a shield was pierced that day, many a false corselet brokenmany a white streamer dyed with blood, and many a horse left without aSre?V but JP^y among the Moors. Few of the Cids men fell. At lastthe Moors, disheartened, began to give away. Then they lied, pursued byrile Lmristians. When the victors returned and began to divide the spoil they found

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