ORDER (from the enemy's ranks).
Fire!
(Most of the Cadets fall, either wounded or dead.)
A SPANISH OFFICER (taking off his hat).
Who are these people dying so bravely?
CYRANO (erect and proudly reciting).
Fair Gascony's cadets are they,
With Carbon,—He of Haughty-Hall;
They fight and lie without dismay,
(He rushes on to enemy, followed by a few surviving Cadets.)
Fair Gascony's cadets....
(The rest is lost in the noise of battle.)