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"Reduan, I but lately heard / From thy mouth the sounding word, / That for me the town of Jaen / In one night thou wouldst obtain; / Reduan, if thou do the same, / Double pay thou mayest claim; / Save thy word perform'd I see, / From Granada thou shalt flee, / Banish'd to a far frontier, / Where thy lady shall not cheer."
Reduan, at the Monarch's side, / With unalter'd mien replied: / "Though the word I never said, / It I'll do, or lose my head."