And with a mien how changed! A hurrying step,
And a flush’d cheek! What may this bode?—
Be still!
Ximena enters, with Attendants carrying a Banner.
Xim. Men of Valencia! in an hour like this,
What do ye here?
A Cit. We die!
Xim. Brave men die now
Girt for the toil, as travellers suddenly
By the dark night o’ertaken on their way!