Charles Morris
speaker
7,961 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 18 Aug
Charles Morris’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Cid Campiador is a true hero of romance, and well are the Spaniards proud of him.
Honor was the moving spring of his career.
As a devoted son he revenged the insult to his father, as a loving husband, he made Himena the partner of his fame.
As a tender father he redressed his daughter's wrongs.
As a loyal subject, he would not serve a king on whom doubt of treachery rested.
In spite of the injustice of the king he was true to his country and came again and again to its aid.
Though forced into the field as a freelance, he was throughout a Christian cavalier.
And though he cheated the Jews, the story goes that he repaid them their gold.
Courage, courtesy, and honor were the jewels of his fame, and the romance holds no nobler hero.
It will not be amiss to close our tale of the Cid with a quotation from the famous poem in which it is shown how even a lion quailed before his majesty.
Peter Bemnuez arose, somewhat he had to say.
The words were strangled in his throat they could not find their way.
Till forth they came at once without a stop or stay.
Sid, I'll tell you what, this always is your way.
You have always served me thus whenever you have come to meet me here in the cortex.
You call me Peter the Dumb.
I cannot help my nature I never talk or rail.
But when a thing is to be done, you know I never fail.
Fernando, you have lied, you have lied in every word.
You have been honored by the seed, and favoured and preferred.
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