1. Who among kings can match the stature of the proud champion?

    Far from it! She has come to you, a gift from Fortune’s turns.

  2. I sought fair Córdoba’s hand when she rebuffed

    whoever came to woo her with swords and spears.

  3. Many a morning she went unadorned, until I presented myself to her;

    then she awoke arrayed in the finest jewelry and robes.

  4. The bride of kings is ours—in her palace, a wedding feast;

    every king, because of it, is at a funeral wake of dread.

  5. So watch, before long—may you be fatherless—for

    the onslaught of a lion clad in valor’s armor.

Sol 5.6