The Lay of the Cid. Folio 50r

And Diego and Ferrando he beheld, that near him drew.
Of the Count don Gonzalvo the children were the two.
My lord the Cid smiled beautifully, for a glad man was he.
"Are ye come here, my sons-in-law? Ye are both sons to me.
I know that with the fighting ye are right well content.
To Carrion fair tidings that concern you shall be sent,
How by us the King Bucar unto defeat was thrust.
As sure as unto the Lord God and all his saints I trust,
With the rout of the foeman shall we all we be satisfied.
Minaya Alvar Fanez came now unto his side.
Hacked with the swords was all the shield that at his neck he wore.
The strokes of many lances had scarred it furthermore.
They that those strokes had stricken, had reaped therefrom no gain.
Down the blood streamed from his elbows. More than twenty had he slain.
"To God and to the Father on High now praises be,
And Cid who in good hour wast born so likewise unto thee.
Thou slewest the King Bucar, and we ha' won the day.
To thee and to thy vassals belongeth all the prey.
And as for thy two sons-in-law they have been proved aright,
Who got their fill of Moorish war upon the field of fight."
Said my lord Cid in answer, I therefore am right glad.
Since they are proved, hereafter in esteem shall they be had."
In honesty he said it, but a jest the thing they thought.