The Cid unto the palace returning then they brought; They rested them on benches most exquisitely wrought: "Ha! Dame Xiména, wife of mine, didst thou beg this of me? These dames thou hast brought hither so well that wait on thee, In marriage to my vassals I am fain to give them o'er, And unto every lady for her dower marks ten score. Men shall know of their good service, in the kingdom of Castile. With my maids' affairs hereafter at our leisure we shall deal." All there rose up together, and kissed his fingers straight, The rejoicing in the palace it was exceeding great. As my lord Cid commanded so they brought the thing about. Minaya Alvar Fañez tarried on the field without, With his men to write and reckon. Arms, tents and rich array In great store they discovered. It was a sovran prey. The richest of the treasure I am fain now to recite: The tale of all the horses they could not take aright; They wandered all caparisoned. Was none to take a steed. The Moors out of their provinces had gathered wealth indeed. Though this were so, were given to the gallant Campeador Of the best of all the horses for his share fifty score. When the Cid had so many the rest content might bide. What store of rich pavilions and carven poles beside To the lord Cid and his vassals by the chance of war did fall, And the King's tent of Morocco was the richest of them all, All gold wrought are the tent-poles that pavilion that sustain. My lord Cid the great Campeador did at that time ordain That it stand pitched; to move it let not a Christian dare. "Since hither from Morocco is come a tent so fair, To Alfonso the Castilian I am fain to send it now; That the Cid hath captured somewhat then lightly will be trow." Laden with mighty riches to Valencia came they home. That very noble cleric, the Bishop don Jerome, When a surfeit of the fighting he had had of his hands twain, Was at a loss to number the Moors that he had slain. What fell to him of booty was sovran great of worth. My lord Cid don Rodrigo (in a good time was his birth,) Of all his fifth share of the spoil has sent him the tenth part.