_Cort_. Their eager chase disordered does appear,
Command our horse to charge them in the rear:
[_To_ PIZARRO.
You to our old Castilian foot retire, [_To_ VASQ.
Who yet stand firm, and at their backs give fire.
[_Exeunt severally._
SCENE IV.
_Enter_ ODMAR _and_ GUTOMAR, _meeting each other in the
battle_.
_Odm_. Where hast thou been, since first the fight began,
Thou less than woman in the shape of man?
_Guy_. Where I have done what may thy envy move,
Things worthy of my birth, and of my love.
_Odm_. Two bold Taxallans with one dart I slew,
And left it sticking ere my sword I drew.
_Guy_. I sought not honour on so base a train,
Such cowards by our women may be slain;
I felled along a man of bearded face,
His limbs all covered with a shining case:
So wondrous hard, and so secure of wound,
It made my sword, though edged with flint, re-bound.
_Odm_. I killed a double man; the one half lay
Upon the ground, the other ran away.
[_Guns go off within.
Enter_ Montezuma, _out of breath, with him_ Alibech, _and an
Indian_.
_Mont_. All is lost!--
Our foes with lightning and with thunder fight;
My men in vain shun death by shameful flight:
For deaths invisible come winged with fire,
They hear a dreadful noise, and strait expire.
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