The Counsel of Tariel
1400	TARIEL said: "I recognize your heroism exceeding that of heroes; your counsel and advice is like your own stout-heartedness; I know you desire fierce fight, not a vain brandishing of swords, when the battle becomes perilous then are ye men.
1401	"BUT let me too have some choice in the matter. The sound will be heard by her who maddens me; like the sun she will be standing aloft; you will have fierce fight, she will see me as a non-combatant! This will be a slur on me. Nay, speak no flattering words!
1402	"BETTER than that counsel is this-let us do as I say: Let us divide the men by hundreds; when night turns to dawn let the three of us start out from three places, swiftly let us urge on our horses; they will send out to encounter us, we shall seem insignificant to them, we shall lend a powerful palm to the sword.
1403	"SWIFTLY shall we engage them, we shall get round them; they will not be able to shut the gates against us; one of the three will go in, the others from outside will strike the  foe that is outside; that one who is inside will fall on those  within, making their blood now; again let us lay hold of the  arms mightily used by us!"
1404	P'HRIDON said: "I understand, I perceive, I know what it Is. None could forestall at the gates that horse that once was min. when I gave it I knew not that we should want to mount guard over the Kadjis in Kadjet'hi; if so, I tell thee I would by no means have given it to thee, such is mine avarice!"
1405	P'HRIDON, the gay, jests with such discourse as this; thereupon they, the eloquent, wise-worded ones, laugh, they joke one with another, with merriment beseeming them. They dismounted and arrayed themselves; they mounted their excellent steeds.
1406	AGAIN they interchanged words, not tart to the mouth. They resolved on that plan proposed by Tariel. They divided among them by hundreds the men, all equal to heroes. They mounted their horses; they covered their heads with their helmets.