"Capitula" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... no flight!" And the two hosts drew out in battle array, like the surging sea. The first to open the chapter[FN6] of war was Sahim, who crave his destrier between the two lines and played with swords and spears and turned over all the Capitula of combat till men of choicest wits were confounded. Then he cried out, saying, "Who is for fighting? Who is for jousting? Let no sluggard come out nor weakling!" Whereupon there rushed at him a horseman of the Kafirs, as he were a flame of fire; but Sahim let him not ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 7 • Richard F. Burton |
