All manner of rich goods were bought by the flushed soldiers, the high and the low.

And there dwelled here a host of those who sold entertainment,--mummers and jugglers and singers, dwarfs and giants.

Dice rattled, now there were castanets and dancing, and now church bells seemed to rock the place.

Wine flowed.
Out of the plain a league and more away sprang the two hills of Granada, and pricked against the sky, her walls and thousand towers and noble gates.

Between them and Santa Fe stretched open and ruined ground, and here for many a day had shocked together the Spaniard and the Moor.
But now there was no longer battle.