I call upon you to meet me, with what weapons you like best, to prove that you are not a midnight assassin.

The place shall be where you choose to appoint.

If you decline I will make you publicly acknowledge what you have done.

If you answer, that I am not a gentleman and you are one, I say that you have attacked me in the dark, when I was on horseback, and you are now my equal, if I like to think so.

You will not talk about the law after that night.