I know enough of these English boys to know that with your hands you would not have the least chance with him.

He could thrash you both at once; for even little English boys do not wrestle, tear, and kick, but hit straight out just as the men do.
"With swords it would be different, but in a row between you and him it would be just the naked hands.

So I advise you to leave him alone, for if you make him fight I will see fair play.

All the time I was a prisoner in England I was well treated by his people, and just as I was treated myself and saw other French prisoners treated so I will see him treated.

Before this voyage is over it is not impossible the tables will be turned, and that you may find yourselves prisoners in the hands of the English; so I recommend you to behave to him in the same way you would like to be treated yourselves if you were taken prisoners.