Knight

Even if some god makes me suffer on the wine-dark sea, I shall endure this within me, for I have a heart patient in hardship. Already I have suffered and endured much on waves and in war. Add this, too, to those.

Also know that when one wants to fence in earnest, he should plan a ready technique, whichever he likes, and that technique should be complete and well-practiced. And he should take this seriously into his mind and will, just if he should say “This I want to do”. And then he must gain the initiative and with the help of God it will not fail. If he bravely hurries and rushes in with the Vorschlag, he succeeds in doing what he should do; about that you will later hear often.