THE COUNSEL OF NURADIN - P’HRIDON
1391	P’HRIDON said: "I will speak a word, I think I am not at fault: We are few, the city is only expungable by many; we have not strength for a direct attack – this is no time for boasting – in a thousand years we could not anywhere win in if they shut the gate against us.
1392	IN my childhood my tutors instructed me in rope dancing, they taught me tricks, they made me leap, they trained me, I used to go along a rope so that eyes could not follow me; whatever little boys looked at me they also desired to do it.
1393	NOW, whichever of you knows best how to cast a noose, let us throw the end of a long rope to that tower, it seems as easy for me to cross as a field; I shall make it a trouble to you to find a sound man inside.
1394	TO me it seems nought to cross in armour, no trouble to bear a shield; nimbly shall I leap down inside, strike like a wind, slay the soldiers; I shall open, you will see the opening of the gate, you too come thither where you hear the uproar of alarm."