{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/mart/mart148.htm","path":"neu/mart/mart148.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/mart/mart148.htm","text":"CHAPTER XXX\nHow Sir Gareth was espied by the heralds, and how he\nescaped out of the field.\nBUT before he was in so many colours, and now he is but in one\ncolour; that is yellow. Now go, said King Arthur <266>unto\ndivers heralds, and ride about him, and espy what manner knight\nhe is, for I have spered of many knights this day that be upon\nhis party, and all say they know him not. And so an herald rode\nnigh Gareth as he could; and there he saw written about his helm\nin gold, This helm is Sir Gareth of Orkney. Then the herald\ncried as he were wood, and many heralds with him:--This is Sir\nGareth of Orkney in the yellow arms; wherby[*4] all kings and\nknights of Arthur's beheld him and awaited; and then they pressed\nall to behold him, and ever the heralds cried: This is Sir\nGareth of Orkney, King Lot's son. And when Sir Gareth espied\nthat he was discovered, then he doubled his strokes, and smote\ndown Sir Sagramore, and his brother Sir Gawaine. O brother, said\nSir Gawaine, I weened ye would not have stricken me.\n[*4] So W. de Worde; Caxton ``that by.''\nSo when he heard him say so he thrang here and there, and so with\ngreat pain he gat out of the press, and there he met with his\ndwarf. O boy, said Sir Gareth, thou hast beguiled me foul this\nday that thou kept my ring; give it me anon again, that I may\nhide my body withal; and so he took it him. And then they all\nwist not where he was become; and Sir Gawaine had in manner\nespied where Sir Gareth rode, and then he rode after with all his\nmight. That espied Sir Gareth, and rode lightly into the forest,\nthat Sir Gawaine wist not where he was become. And when Sir\nGareth wist that Sir Gawaine was passed, he asked the dwarf of\nbest counsel. Sir, said the dwarf, meseemeth it were best, now\nthat ye are escaped from spying, that ye send my lady Dame\nLionesse her ring. It is well advised, said Sir Gareth; now have\nit here and bear it to her, and say that I recommend me unto her\ngood grace, and say her I will come when I may, and I pray her to\nbe true and faithful to me as I will be to her. Sir, said the\ndwarf, it shall be done as ye command: and so he rode his way,\nand did his errand unto the lady. Then she said, Where is my\nknight, Sir Gareth? Madam, said the dwarf, he bade me say that\nhe would not be long from you. And so lightly the dwarf came\nagain unto Sir Gareth, that would full fain <267>have had a\nlodging, for he had need to be reposed. And then fell there a\nthunder and a rain, as heaven and earth should go together. And\nSir Gareth was not a little weary, for of all that day he had but\nlittle rest, neither his horse nor he. So this Sir Gareth rode\nso long in that forest until the night came. And ever it\nlightened and thundered, as it had been wood. At the last by\nfortune he came to a castle, and there he heard the waits upon\nthe walls.","title":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK VII CHAPTER XXX","type":"page"}