To him Rinaldo, "If we for thy horse Have to contend in fight, and nought beside, Take comfort, for I ween that with no worse Thou, in his place, by me shalt be supplied."
-- "Thou errest if thou deem'st his loss the source Of my regret" (the stranger knight replied);
"But I, since thou divinest not my speech, To thee my meaning will more plainly teach.