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Title: Stories from the Chronicle of the Cid
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Plummer, Mary Wright, 1856-1916
Subjects: Cid (Epic cycle)
Publisher: New York : H. Holt and Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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«/ one like this; and as to the horses, he frankly 70 CHRONICLE OF THE CID admitted that never before liad Spanish kingreceived such a gift from any vassal. Hegave orders that the messengers should beprovided for handsomely until time for theirreturn, when they should receive from himfull suits of armor. Among those who as-sisted the King at this interview was DonGarcia Ordonez, the Cids inveterate foe, andhe and some of his kinsmen talked bitterlyamong themselves, and said the Cid had sentthis present to put them to shame, and theythirsted more and more to humiliate him insome way. There were also in the companythe Infantes of Carrion, called Diego andFerrando Gonzalez, who are to play greatpart in this chronicle. These two young menwere of ancient family, but that did not sig-nify anything in their case, for they wereselfish and cowardly and cruel. But thesethings are not written on peoples foreheads,and so they were held in very good estima-tion. When they saw the spoil which the
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Alvar Fanez and the Two Hundred Horses. THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTCR, LENOX ANDTILDEN FOUNDATIONS. C L- SIEGE OF VALENCIA 73 Cid had sent to the King as part of the treas-ure taken in one battle only, when they heardthat he had become lord of Valencia and thathis riches were constantly increasing, theyconsulted together and decided to ask theKing for the Cids daughters in marriage.For they agreed in thinking that the Cidwould certainly do well by his daughters, andtheir dowry would make rich whoever shouldmarry them. So the Infantes betook them-selves to the King and made their request;and the King thought awhile, but scarcelydared promise, for he knew how dearly theCid loved his children, and thought that per-haps he was not yet ready to part with them.Marriages in those days and in thoseSouthern countries were contracted when theparties were very young, and probably theCids daughters were not more than thirteenor fourteen, so it was left to the discretionof the parents or the K

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