Chronicle of the Cid

FROM THE SPANISH.

BY

ROBERT SOUTHEY.

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.

LOWELL:-

DANIEL BIXBY, MERRIMACK STREET.

MDCCCXLVI.

26252.33.10

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
GIFT OF

MRS. THOMAS WENTWORTH HICKSON
MRS. MARGARET HIGGINSON LARNLY
007 9 1940

·5-46.

BOSTON:

PRINTED BY FREEMAN AND BOLLES,

WASHINGTON STREET.

CONTENTS.

BOOK I.

Sect.

I. How King Ferrando reigned in Cas-

tille,

II. Of the lineage of Rodrigo of Bivar,

III. Of the strife between Count Gomez
and Diego Laynez, and how
Rodrigo slew him, .

IV. How Rodrigo took the five Moorish

kings,

ib.

V. How Ximena Gomez asked Rodrigo

of the King in marriage,

VI. How Rodrigo accepted her for his

wife,

VII. How Rodrigo took his wife home,

and of the vow which he made, 51

VIII. Of the dispute concerning Cala-

horra,

IX. Of the charity of Rodrigo towards

the leper,

ib.

X. Of the combat which was fought for

Calahorra,

XI. How the Counts plotted against

Rodrigo,

XII. How Rodrigo gained a great victory

over the Moors,

XIII. Of the taking of Viseu,

XIV. Of the taking of Lamego,

XV. Of the siege of Coimbra,

XVI. How Santiago appeared to the

Greek Bishop,

XVII. Of the grant made by the King to

the monks of Lorvam,

XVIII. How Rodrigo was knighted,

XIX. Of the taking of Montemor,.

XX. How Ruydiez was called the Cid,

XXI. How the Emperor demanded tri-

bute of Spain,

XXII. Of the answer which the King

XXIII. How the Cid defeated the Lord

VI. How King Don Garcia sent to ask

aid from his brother King Don

Alfonso,

59

60 VII. How Don Rodrigo Frojaz slew

Verna,

67

V. How King Don Sancho had a meet-

ing with his brother King Don

Alfonso,

VIII. Of the battle at Agoa de Mayas,

IX. How King Don Garcia fled to the

62

Moors,

..

65 X. How King Don Garcia went out from

ib.

Santarem to battle,

66 XI. How Alvar Fanez asked the king
for a horse and arms,

ib. XII. How King Don Sancho was taken,
and of the death of Don Rod-
rigo Frojaz,

Page.

XIII. How Alvar Fanez rescued the king,

68 XIV. How King Don Garcia was taken,

Libros

Chronicle of the Cid: From the Spanish