They suggested that where I have failed you could succeed, if you had a mind to try.

I have challenged you, Bardelys.

I challenge you again.

Go about this wooing as you will; dazzle the lady with your wealth and your magnificence, with your servants, your horses, your equipages; and all the splendours you can command; yet I make bold to say that not a year of your scented attentions and most insidious wiles will bear you fruit.
Are you sufficiently challenged ?" "But this is rank frenzy!" I protested.

"Why should I undertake this thing ?" "To prove me wrong," he taunted me.