on the kings mount and the owner of his beasts. each one of them was not safe from the king calling him to keep company and talk so he needed to suffer his beast due to dullness or frequent aversion or stumbling or unruliness and the king would have some of what he disliked from that. the trainer would test one beast after another from the beasts of these great men. whatever he chose he would ride and whatever he rejected he would postpone.
على راضة الملك وصاحب دوابه. وكان كل واحد منهم لا يأمن أن يدعو به الملك للمسايرة والمحادثة، فيحتاج إلى معاناة دابته لبلادة أو كثرة نفور أو عثار أو جماح، فيكون على الملك من ذلك بعض ما يكره. وكان الرائض يمتحن دابة دابة من دواب هؤلاء العظماء. فما اختار منها ركب، وما نفى أرجيء.