"Give me!" quoth Amadis. "I shall try God's mercy before they pass, to see if I can redress this villainy."
"O, sir," cried the squire, "why have you so little compassion on your youth? If the best twenty knights of King Lisuarte's court were here, they would not venture to attack them."
"Care thou not for that," replied his master. "If I let them pass without doing my best I should be unworthy to appear among gallant men: you shall behold my fortune."
Enil gave him his arms, weeping, and Amadis then descended the sloping ground to meet them. He looked toward Miraflores as he went, and said:
"O Oriana, my lady, never did I attempt adventure confiding in my own courage, but in you: my gentle lady, assist me now, in this great need."
He felt his full strength now, and all fear was gone, and he cried out to the dwarfs to stop.
When the foremost giant, Famongomadan, heard him, he came towards him with such rage that smoke came through the vizor of his helmet, and he shook his boar spear so forcefully that its ends almost met.
"Unhappy wretch!" cried he. "Who gave thee boldness enough to dare appear before me?"
"That Lord," quoth Amadis, "whom thou hast offended, who will give me strength today to break thy pride."