Chapter CXXI

It was a mighty booty that the Cid his host had ta 'en. Part is their own. In safety they kept the rest aside. My lord the Cid gave orders who was born in a good tide, That to all men of that conquest his true share they should allot, And that the fifth of my lord Cid should nowise be forgot. And all men did according, being prudent one and all. For his fifth, six hundred horses to my lord Cid did fall, And there were many camels and, moreover, mules as well. Of them there were so many, that their number none might tell.