King, Georgiana Goddard: A brief account of the military orders in Spain (New York: The Hispanic Society of America, 1921)

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MILITARY ORDERS
Garci L6pez
de Padilla
To arms, my knights and comrades!
Up, up, and arm you, each!”
And straightway in the field he was,
urging them still with speech.
At the entering to a valley
where first it opened fair,
They saw the Moors advancing:
the Master called them there.
“On them, good knights! Set at them,
that none escape the fray,
Now grip your horse and fix
your lance and strike your prey!”
When Albayaldos met them
moving in this array
The Master’s fierce encounter
slew man and steed straightway;
The Moors broke up and fled
each one a different way.
Garci Lopez de Padilla was a good Mas-
ter. In time of peace he abode at the con-
vent, and kept his place in the choir, and
lived like a good Religious. He would have
fetched the body of Abbot Raymund
thither but the monks of S. Bernard in
HISPANIC NOTES