The Moors may well be joyful, but great should be our grief, For Spain has lost her guardian, when Castile has lost her chief; The Moorish host is pouring like a river o'er the land-- Curse on the Christian fetters that bind Gonzalez' hand! And the Norman knight prayed the princess to set the prisoner free. The lady answered little, but at the mirk of night, When all her maids are sleeping, she hath risen and ta'en her flight: She hath tempted the Alcayde with her jewels and her gold, And unto her his prisoner that jailor false hath sold.[20] So the princess took the Count out of his dungeon, and together they rode to Castile. At the time we have now reached, this is an old story, for Gonzalez had been married many a year, and had determined that Castile should be a separate kingdom, no longer under the suzerainty of Leon. For this he was again captured and imprisoned by Ramiro, and only released when it was apparent that the people of Castile would have no other lord but him, and would even pay their homage to a mere statue of their Count sooner than recognize a Leonese governor. Then the king let him out, after making him swear to remain subject to the kingdom of Leon and to give his daughter in marriage to Ordoño the son of Ramiro. After this humiliation, Fernando Gonzalez was less eager to fight beside the men of Leon against the Moors; he resolved to let the Leonese take their share of humiliation. But this was not to be in the days of the great Ramiro; for he won another victory over the Moslems, near Talavera, in 950, and the next year he died in undiminished glory.