{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/mart/mart055.htm","path":"neu/mart/mart055.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/mart/mart055.htm","text":"CHAPTER X\nHow Sir Tor found the brachet with a lady, and how a\nknight assailed him for the said brachet.\nTHEREWITH Sir Tor alighted and took the dwarf his glaive, and so\nhe came to the white pavilion, and saw three damosels lie in it,\non one pallet, sleeping, and so he went to the other pavilion,\nand found a lady lying sleeping therein, but there was the white\nbrachet that bayed at her fast, and therewith the lady yede out\nof the pavilion and all her damosels. But anon as Sir Tor espied\nthe white brachet, he took her by force and took her to the\ndwarf. What, will ye so, said the lady, take my brachet from me?\nYea, said Sir Tor, this brachet have I sought from King Arthur's\ncourt hither. Well, said the lady, knight, ye shall not go far\nwith her, but that ye shall be met and grieved. I shall abide\nwhat adventure that cometh by the grace of God, and so mounted\nupon his horse, and passed on his way toward Camelot; but it was\nso near night he might not pass but little further. Know ye any\nlodging? said Tor. I know none, said the dwarf, but here beside\nis an hermitage, and there ye must take lodging as ye find. And\nwithin a while they came to the hermitage and took lodging; and\nwas there grass, oats and bread for their horses; soon it was\nsped, and full hard was their supper; but there they rested them\nall night till on the morn, and heard a mass devoutly, and took\ntheir leave of the hermit, and Sir Tor prayed the hermit to pray\nfor him. He said he would, and betook him to God. And so\nmounted upon horseback and rode towards Camelot a long while.\nWith that they heard a knight call loud that came after them, and\nhe said, Knight, abide and yield my brachet that thou took from\nmy lady. Sir Tor returned again, and beheld him how he was a\nseemly knight and well horsed, and well armed at all points; then\nSir Tor dressed his shield, and took his spear in his hands, and\nthe other came fiercely upon him, and smote both horse and man to\nthe <93>earth. Anon they arose lightly and drew their swords as\neagerly as lions, and put their shields afore them, and smote\nthrough the shields, that the cantels fell off both parties.\nAlso they tamed their helms that the hot blood ran out, and the\nthick mails of their hauberks they carved and rove in sunder that\nthe hot blood ran to the earth, and both they had many wounds and\nwere passing weary. But Sir Tor espied that the other knight\nfainted, and then he sued fast upon him, and doubled his strokes,\nand gart him go to the earth on the one side. Then Sir Tor bade\nhim yield him. That will I not, said Abelleus, while my life\nlasteth and the soul is within my body, unless that thou wilt\ngive me the brachet. That will I not do, said Sir Tor, for it\nwas my quest to bring again thy brachet, thee, or both.","title":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK III CHAPTER X","type":"page"}