To this the peasant answered, "Senor- sinner that I am!- cannot your worship see that I am not Don Rodrigo de Narvaez nor the Marquis of Mantua, but Pedro Alonso your neighbour, and that your worship is neither Baldwin nor Abindarraez, but the worthy gentleman Senor Quixada?"
All this the peasant heard, and from it he understood at last what was the matter with his neighbour, so he began calling aloud, "Open, your worships, to Senor Baldwin and to Senor the Marquis of Mantua, who comes badly wounded, and to Senor Abindarraez, the Moor, whom the valiant Rodrigo de Narvaez, the Alcaide of Antequera, brings captive."
They shout and gesticulate tremendously but cannot agree, and
Rodrigo is about to bear away the exhausted Zara, when the timid servant enters with a letter and a bag from Hagar, who has mysteriously disappeared.
A man of impure life, and a brazen face, asking Roderick if there were any serpent in his breast, he told him that there was, and of the same species that once tortured Don
Rodrigo, the Goth.
When any
Rodrigo, Pedro or Valerio enters, though he be a stranger, the duke or governor exclaims,
Jeremy Irons stars as
Rodrigo Borgia, 15th-century pope and lascivious patriarch.
Islam was a central preoccupation for
Rodrigo Jimenez de Rada throughout his career as archbishop of Toledo (1209-1247).
The breaches in the walls of Ciudad
Rodrigo caused by two sieges have been repaired and the old city looks as impregnable as it must have done in 1810.
But presenter Davina McCall called out the name of the former Mr Gay UK, just 20 minutes after
Rodrigo Lopes, the fifth last contestant, was voted off.