{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/mart/mart190.htm","path":"neu/mart/mart190.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/mart/mart190.htm","text":"CHAPTER XXXVII\nHow Sir Suppinabiles told Sir Tristram how he was defamed\nin the court of King Arthur, and of Sir Lamorak.\nTHEN departed Sir Suppinabiles unto Brittany again, and there he\nfound Sir Tristram, and told him that he had been in King\nArthur's court. Then said Sir Tristram: Heard ye anything of\nme? So God me help, said Sir Suppinabiles, there I heard Sir\nLauncelot speak of you great shame, and that ye be a false knight\nto your lady and he bade me do you to wit that he will be your\nmortal enemy in every place where he may meet you. That me\nrepenteth, said Tristram, for of all knights I loved to be in his\nfellowship. So Sir Tristram made great moan and was ashamed that\nnoble knights should defame him for the sake of his lady. And in\nthis meanwhile La Beale <341>Isoud made a letter unto Queen\nGuenever, complaining her of the untruth of Sir Tristram, and how\nhe had wedded the king's daughter of Brittany. Queen Guenever\nsent her another letter, and bade her be of good cheer, for she\nshould have joy after sorrow, for Sir Tristram was so noble a\nknight called, that by crafts of sorcery ladies would make such\nnoble men to wed them. But in the end, Queen Guenever said, it\nshall be thus, that he shall hate her, and love you better than\never he did to-fore.\nSo leave we Sir Tristram in Brittany, and speak we of Sir Lamorak\nde Galis, that as he sailed his ship fell on a rock and perished\nall, save Sir Lamorak and his squire; and there he swam mightily,\nand fishers of the Isle of Servage took him up, and his squire\nwas drowned, and the shipmen had great labour to save Sir\nLamorak's life, for all the comfort that they could do.\nAnd the lord of that isle, hight Sir Nabon le Noire, a great\nmighty giant. And this Sir Nabon hated all the knights of King\nArthur's, and in no wise he would do them favour. And these\nfishers told Sir Lamorak all the guise of Sir Nabon; how there\ncame never knight of King Arthur's but he destroyed him. And at\nthe last battle that he did was slain Sir Nanowne le Petite, the\nwhich he put to a shameful death in despite of King Arthur, for\nhe was drawn limb-meal. That forthinketh me, said Sir Lamorak,\nfor that knight's death, for he was my cousin; and if I were at\nmine ease as well as ever I was, I would revenge his death.\nPeace, said the fishers, and make here no words, for or ever ye\ndepart from hence Sir Nabon must know that ye have been here, or\nelse we should die for your sake. So that I be whole, said\nLamorak, of my disease that I have taken in the sea, I will that\nye tell him that I am a knight of King Arthur's, for I was never\nafeard to reneye my lord.\n<342>","title":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK VIII CHAPTER XXXVII","type":"page"}