This done, the prisoner requested him that he would afford him some reasonable composition for his ransom.

To which Pantagruel answered, that his end was not to rob nor ransom men, but to enrich them and reduce them to total liberty.

Go thy way, said he, in the peace of the living God, and never follow evil company, lest some mischief befall thee.

The prisoner being gone, Pantagruel said to his men, Gentlemen, I have made this prisoner believe that we have an army at sea; as also that we will not assault them till to-morrow at noon, to the end that they, doubting of the great arrival of our men, may spend this night in providing and strengthening themselves, but in the meantime my intention is that we charge them about the hour of the first sleep.
Let us leave Pantagruel here with his apostles, and speak of King Anarchus and his army.

When the prisoner was come he went unto the king and told him how there was a great giant come, called Pantagruel, who had overthrown and made to be cruelly roasted all the six hundred and nine and fifty horsemen, and he alone escaped to bring the news.