Before it shall be ended, for this their hate they’ll show us:
Let now the strong be heedful; dead must many lie on the field below us.
[1457]
“Fear and care it gives me that many here are seen
Whom we must now be meeting. Wâ-te with all his men
I see before the gateway, there with sword-strokes hewing.
If he of the gate be keeper, I look for little kindness he’ll be doing.
[1458]
“See for yourselves, my warriors, the gateways and the walls
By foes on all sides girded; knight to knight there calls.