While with acquaintances, his steed tired and he dropped back, and priests were hiding in the fields and fired an overwhelming barrage of arrows whereupon, Yoshitaka, flailing his long sword, made after them, but the mountain road was rough there was no place for his horse to run.
此人、馬がつかれて少しさがりたりけるを、法師原が中にとりこめて、さんざん射けるほどに、義高、太刀うち振て追払々々しけれども、山陰の道、難所なれば、馬のかけ場もなし。