Then he said:
'If any hath aught to say concerning what is best to be done at once,
it were good that he said it now before all and not to murmur and
grudge hereafter.'
None spake save the Fiddle, who said: 'Alderman and War-leader, one
thing would I say: that if these foemen are anywise akin to those
overrunners of the Folks of whom the tales went in my youth (for I
also as well as Stone-face mind me well of those tales concerning
them), it shall not avail us to sit still and await their onset. For
then may they not be withstood, when they have gathered head and
burst out and over the folk that have been happy, even as the waters
that overtop a dyke and cover with their muddy ruin the deep green
grass and the flower-buds of spring. Therefore my rede is, as soon
as may be to go seek these folk in the woodland and wheresoever else
they may be wandering. What sayest thou, Face-of-god?'
'My rede is as thine,' said he; 'and to begin with, I do now call
upon ten tens of good men to meet me in arms at the beginning of
Wildlake's Way to-morrow morning at daybreak; and I bid my brother
Hall-face to summon such as are most meet thereto.
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