Syfrid demurred, dreading to fulfill the condition, but by sharp menaces Toste induced him to promise what he asked.

For threats can sometimes gain a request which soft-dealing cannot compass.

Hadding was conquered by this man in an affair by land; but in the midst of his flight he came on his enemy's fleet, and made it unseaworthy by boring the sides; then he got a skiff and steered it out to sea.

Toste thought he was slain, but though he sought long among the indiscriminate heaps of dead, could not find him, and came back to his fleet; when he saw from afar off a light boat tossing on the ocean billows.

Putting out some vessels, he resolved to give it chase, but was brought back by peril of shipwreck, and only just reached the shore.