"He who harms a hair of the Princess dies.

Take them both living if you may, but lay no hand on her.

Stay, let us talk." So they ceased from their onslaught and began to consult together.
Rosamund touched her father and pointed to the man who lay upon the floor with an arrow through his thigh.

He was struggling to his knee, raising the heavy scimitar in his hand.

Sir Andrew lifted his sword as a husbandman lifts a stick to kill a rat, then let it fall again, saying: "I fight not with the wounded.