Finding herself now on board, and that we were about to give way with the oars, Zoraida, seeing her father there, and the other Moors bound, bade the renegade ask me to do her the favour of releasing the Moors and setting her father at liberty, for she would rather drown herself in the sea than suffer a father that had loved her so dearly to be carried away captive before her eyes and on her account.
Viéndose, pues, Zoraida ya en la barca, y que queríamos dar los remos al agua, y viendo allí a su padre y a los demás moros que atados estaban, le dijo al renegado que me dijese le hiciese merced de soltar a aquellos moros y de dar libertad a su padre, porque antes se arrojaría en la mar que ver delante de sus ojos y por causa suya llevar cautivo a un padre que tanto la había querido.