{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/mart/mart188.htm","path":"neu/mart/mart188.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/mart/mart188.htm","text":"CHAPTER XXXV\nHow Sir Tristram was holpen by his men, and of Queen\nIsoud which was put in a lazar-cote, and how Tristram was hurt.\nSO when they were departed, Gouvernail, and Sir Lambegus, and Sir\nSentraille de Lushon, that were Sir Tristram's men, sought their\nmaster. When they heard he was escaped then they were passing\nglad; and on the rocks they found him, and with towels they\npulled him up. And then Sir Tristram asked them where was La\nBeale Isoud, for he weened she had been had away of Andred's\npeople. Sir, said Gouvernail, she is put in a lazar-cote. Alas,\nsaid Sir <338>Tristram, this is a full ungoodly place for such a\nfair lady, and if I may she shall not be long there. And so he\ntook his men and went thereas was La Beale Isoud, and fetched her\naway, and brought her into a forest to a fair manor, and Sir\nTristram there abode with her. So the good knight bade his men\ngo from him: For at this time I may not help you. So they\ndeparted all save Gouvernail. And so upon a day Sir Tristram\nyede into the forest for to disport him, and then it happened\nthat there he fell sleep; and there came a man that Sir Tristram\naforehand had slain his brother, and when this man had found him\nhe shot him through the shoulder with an arrow, and Sir Tristram\nleapt up and killed that man. And in the meantime it was told\nKing Mark how Sir Tristram and La Beale Isoud were in that same\nmanor, and as soon as ever he might thither he came with many\nknights to slay Sir Tristram. And when he came there he found\nhim gone; and there he took La Beale Isoud home with him, and\nkept her strait that by no means never she might wit nor send\nunto Tristram, nor he unto her. And then when Sir Tristram came\ntoward the old manor he found the track of many horses, and\nthereby he wist his lady was gone. And then Sir Tristram took\ngreat sorrow, and endured with great pain long time, for the\narrow that he was hurt withal was envenomed.\nThen by the mean of La Beale Isoud she told a lady that was\ncousin unto Dame Bragwaine, and she came to Sir Tristram, and\ntold him that he might not be whole by no means. For thy lady,\nLa Beale Isoud, may not help thee, therefore she biddeth you\nhaste into Brittany to King Howel, and there ye shall find his\ndaughter, Isoud la Blanche Mains, and she shall help thee. Then\nSir Tristram and Gouvernail gat them shipping, and so sailed into\nBrittany. And when King Howel wist that it was Sir Tristram he\nwas full glad of him. Sir, he said, I am come into this country\nto have help of your daughter, for it is told me that there is\nnone other may heal me but she; and so within a while she healed\nhim.\n<339>","title":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK VIII CHAPTER XXXV","type":"page"}