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Title: Stories from the Chronicle of the Cid
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Plummer, Mary Wright, 1856-1916
Subjects: Cid (Epic cycle)
Publisher: New York : H. Holt and Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ywhere we find that the faultsof the Campeador were the faults of the time,and that he was of much nobler characterthan most of his companions. If this hadnot been the case, it is hardly likely that awhole nation would have been contented totake him for its hero, as the Spanish nationhas done. CHAPTER VIIMARTIN PELAEZ, THE COWARD THE story of Martin Pelaez, the coward,is rather amusing, and shows theshrewdness of the Cid and his knowledge ofmen. At one time, while he was engaged inthe siege of Valencia, this Martin Pelaezcame to him and joined his men. He was atall, stout fellow, with strong arms, and hada very warlike appearance, but the Cid knewhim to be a coward and braggart and wassorry to see him come; still, he thought thatperhaps he could make a good knight of him,and so kept him. Every day parties weresent out to engage the Moors who came forthfrom the city, and one day Pelaez, who be-longed to one of these parties, seeing them allhard at it and thinking no one would notice 54
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Martin Pelaez at the Cids Table. THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LiBRAM MARTIN PELAEZ, THE COWARD 57 him, quietly stole back to his lodging and hiduntil the Cid and his men came back to theirdinner. The arrangement of seats at tablewas as follows: the Cid ate alone at a hightable overlooking the rest; nearest him ata lower table sat the bravest and most re-nowned knights, such as Alvar Fanez, whileat still another table were placed thoseknights who had as yet won no fame in arms.When they were seated, on the day I speakof, Martin Pelaez washed his hands, and,boldly walking in, was about to take a seatamong the valorous knights; but the Cid hadseen his conduct in the encounter with theMoors and thought this was the time to givehim his first lesson. So he took him by thehand and led him to his own table, saying,11 You are not fit to sit with these, for theyare worth more than you and me; but I willhave you with me. Pelaez must have beenrather stupid, as well as a coward, for hetook this for an hono

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