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Cantar tercero: the Infantes are humiliated after fleeing when a lion breaks out of its “net.” The Cid’s vassals protect him while he sleeps but when he awakens, the lion bows its head to him and is meekly led to its net by the scruff of its neck. The infantes also prove themselves cowards in battle. As revenge, the brothers beat and desert the Cid’s daughters in an oak forest, but their cousin saves them.

El cantar segundo revolves around The Cid’s conquest of Valencia, taking it from King Yusuf of Morocco and installing a Christian bishop Jerome from France. King Alfonso allows his wife and daughters to join him in Valencia after proving vassalage, and Yusuf returns with 50k soldiers but is defeated again. The King finally pardons the Cid, and his daughters are married to the Infantes of Carrion.