Re-enter Mendo, and Nuño wounded.

Men. ’Tis only a scratch.

Nuñ. A scratch? Well, I could well have spared that.

Men. Ah, what is it compared to the wound in my heart!

Nuñ. I would gladly exchange for all that.

Men. Well, he did lay upon your head handsomely, didn’t he?

Nuñ. Ah, and on my tail too; while you, under that great shield of yours,—

(Drum.)

Men. Hark! what’s that?

Nuñ. The soldiers’ reveille. I heard say they were to leave Zalamea to-day.