What will ye do?
said Merlin to the kings; ye were better for to stint, for ye shall not here prevail though ye were ten times so many.

Be we well advised to be afeared of a dream-reader?
said King Lot.

With that Merlin vanished away, and came to King Arthur, and bade him set on them fiercely; and in the meanwhile there were three hundred good men, of the best that were with the kings, that went straight unto King Arthur, and that comforted him greatly.

Sir, said Merlin to Arthur, fight not with the sword that ye had by miracle, till that ye see ye go unto the worse, then draw it out and do your best.

So forthwithal King Arthur set upon them in their lodging.