"To thy hand are they delivered my cavaliers all three; As to my King and Master I commend them unto thee. They are ready now their duty to the full to undertake. With honor to Valencia send them me for God his sake." "So it be God's desire," answered the King and said. The Cid the Campeador did off the helmet from his head, Likewise the cap of linen as white as is the sun. He freed his beard, the cord thereof he has forthwith undone. Those in the court upon him, their full they could not gaze. To the Counts Remónd and Henry forthwith he went his way. And them closely he embraces and doth heartily require To take of his possession all that suits with their desire. These twain and many others who were persons of good will He earnestly requested to take unto their fill Some took his gifts, but others would not accept a thing. The two hundred marks, he gave them once more unto the King. Whatever was his pleasure he has taken of the rest: "King, for love of the Creator one thing let me request. Sire, with thy will I kiss thine hand. Since so these deeds are done, And would fain unto Valencia which with great pain I won." ******************* Then the Cid commanded to give sumpter-beasts unto the embassadors of the Heirs of Navarre and Aragon, and, moreover, to let them have whatever else they required.* And he sent them forth. The King don Alfonso with all the nobles of his court got on horseback in order to ride out with the Cid who was about to leave the town. When they came to Zocodover, the Cid being on his charger Baviéca, the King said to him: "In faith, don Rodrigo, thou must now put spur to that charger of which I have heard most fair report." The Cid smiled and said: "Sire, in thy court, are many, gentle and simple, who would gladly do such a thing. Bid them make sport with their steeds." The King replied to him: "Cid, I am pleased with thine answer. Nevertheless I desire thee, for the love thou bearest me, to put that steed through his best paces." *Supplied like the former prose passage from the Chronicle of the Twenty Kings. ******************* CL. The Cid then put spur to the charger and made him gallop so fast that all were astonished at the career he ran.