Keep steady; do not fire until you are sure that they are within range.

Draw your bows well to your ears, and straightly and steadily let fly.

Never heed the outcry or the rush, keep steady to the last moment.

There is shelter behind you, and fierce as the attack may be, you can find a sure refuge behind the line of the knights." Cnut with his archers formed part of the line outside the array of English knights, and the arrows of the English bowmen fell fast as bands of the Bedouin horse circled round them in the endeavour to draw the Christians on to the attack.

For some time Saladin persisted in these tactics.