" -- I, at your choice," said Aldigier, "were fain To flourish faulchion, or to tilt with spear;
But this with feat, which, if you here remain, Yourself may witness, so would interfere, That for the present parley time with pain Suffices, and yet less for the career.
Six hundred men, or more, we here attend, With whom we must to-day in arms contend.