{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/mart/mart127.htm","path":"neu/mart/mart127.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/mart/mart127.htm","text":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK VII CHAPTER IX\n \n Sacred Texts\u00a0\n Legends and Sagas\u00a0\n Index\u00a0\n BOOK VII\u00a0\n Previous\u00a0\n Next\u00a0\n \n \n CHAPTER IX\n \n How the damosel again rebuked Beaumains, and would not\n suffer him to sit at her table, but called him kitchen boy.\n \n AND ever she rebuked Beaumains, and would not suffer him to sit\n at her table, but as the Green Knight took him and sat him at a\n side table. Marvel methinketh, said the Green Knight to the\n damosel, why ye rebuke this noble knight as ye do, for I warn\n you, damosel, he is a full noble knight, and I know no knight is\n able to match him; therefore ye do great wrong to rebuke him, for\n he shall do you right good service, for whatsomever he maketh\n himself, ye shall prove at the end that he is come of a noble\n blood and of king's lineage. Fie, fie, said the damosel, it is\n shame for you to say of him such worship. Truly, said the Green\n Knight, it were shame for me to say of him any disworship, for he\n hath proved himself a better knight than I am, yet have I met\n with many knights in my days, and never or this time have I found\n no knight his match. And so that night they yede unto rest, and\n all that night the Green Knight commanded thirty knights privily\n to watch Beaumains, for to keep him from all treason.\n \n And so on the morn they all arose, and heard their mass and brake\n their fast; and then they took their horses and rode on their\n way, and the Green Knight conveyed them through the forest; and\n there the Green Knight said, My lord Beaumains, I and these\n thirty knights shall be always at your summons, both early and\n late, at your calling and whither that ever ye will send us. It\n is well said, said Beaumains; when that I call upon you ye must\n yield you unto King Arthur, and all your knights. If <224>that\n ye so command us, we shall be ready at all times, said the Green\n Knight. Fie, fie upon thee, in the devil's name, said the\n damosel, that any good knights should be obedient unto a kitchen\n knave. So then departed the Green Knight and the damosel. And\n then she said unto Beaumains, Why followest thou me, thou kitchen\n boy? Cast away thy shield and thy spear, and flee away; yet I\n counsel thee betimes or thou shalt say right soon, alas; for wert\n thou as wight as ever was Wade or Launcelot, Tristram, or the\n good knight Sir Lamorak, thou shalt not pass a pass here that is\n called the Pass Perilous. Damosel, said Beaumains, who is afeard\n let him flee, for it were shame to turn again sithen I have\n ridden so long with you. Well, said the damosel, ye shall soon,\n whether ye will or not.","title":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK VII CHAPTER IX","type":"page"}