them I will give the monastery four.”  And the Abbot promised to do this with a right good will.  Then Dona Ximena came up weeping bitterly, and she said to her husband, “Lo now you are banished from the land by mischief-making men, and here am I with your daughters, who are little ones and of tender years, and we and you must be parted, even in your lifetime.  For the love of St. Mary tell me now what we shall do.”  And the Cid took the children in his arms, and held them to his heart and wept, for he dearly loved them.  “Please God and St. Mary,” said he, “I shall yet live to give these my daughters in marriage with my own hands, and to do you service yet, my honoured wife, whom I have ever loved, even as my own soul.”  Now hath my Cid left the kingdom of King Don Alfonso, and entered the country of the Moors.  And at day-break they were near the brow of the Sierra, and they halted there upon the top of the mountains, and gave barley to their horses, and remained there until evening.  And they set forward when the evening had closed, that none might see them, and continued their way all night, and before dawn they came near to Castrejon, which is upon the Henares.  And Alvar Fanez said unto the Cid, that he would take with him two hundred horsemen, and scour the country and lay hands on whatever he could find, without fear either of King Alfonso or of the Moors.  And he counselled him to remain in ambush where he was, and surprise the castle of Castrejon:  and it seemed good unto my Cid.  Away went Alvar Fanez, and the two hundred horsemen; and the Cid remained in ambush with the rest of his company.  And as soon as it was morning, the Moors of Castrejon, knowing nothing of these who were so near them, opened the castle gates, and went out to their work as they were wont to do.  And the Cid rose from ambush and fell upon them, and took all their flocks, and made straight for the gates, pursuing them.  And there was a cry within the castle that the Christians were upon them, and they who were within ran to the gates to defend them, but my Cid came up sword in hand; eleven Moors did he slay with his own hand, and they forsook the gate and fled before him to hide themselves within, so that he won the castle presently, and took gold and silver, and whatever else he would.

Alvar Fanez meantime scoured the country along the Henares as far as Alcala, and he returned driving flocks and herds before him, with great stores of wearing apparel, and of other plunder.  And when the Cid knew that he was nigh at hand he went out to meet him, and praised him greatly for what he had done, and gave thanks to God.  And he gave order that all the spoils should be heaped together, both what Alvar Fanez had brought, and what had been taken in the castle; and he said to him, “Brother, of all this which God hath given us, take you the fifth, for you well deserve it”; but Minaya would not, saying, “You have need of it for our support.”  And the Cid divided the spoil