{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/mart/mart205.htm","path":"neu/mart/mart205.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/mart/mart205.htm","text":"CHAPTER XI\nHow Sir Tristram met with Sir Lamorak de Galis, and how\nthey fought, and after accorded never to fight together.\nNOW fair knight, he said, my name is Sir Tristram de Liones.\nSir, said the other knight, and my name is Sir Lamorak de Galis.\nAh, Sir Lamorak, said Sir Tristram, well be we met, and bethink\nthee now of the despite thou didst me of the sending of the horn\nunto King Mark's court, to the intent to have slain or\ndishonoured my lady the queen, La Beale Isoud; and therefore wit\nthou well, said Sir Tristram, the one of us shall die or we\ndepart. Sir, said Sir Lamorak, remember that we were together in\nthe Isle of Servage, and at that time ye promised me great\nfriendship. Then Sir Tristram would make no longer delays, but\nlashed at Sir Lamorak; and thus they fought long till either were\nweary of other. Then Sir Tristram said to Sir Lamorak: In all\nmy life met I never with such a knight that was so big and well\nbreathed as ye be, therefore, said Sir Tristram, it were pity\nthat any of us both should here be mischieved. Sir <370>said Sir\nLamorak, for your renown and name I will that ye have the worship\nof this battle, and therefore I will yield me unto you. And\ntherewith he took the point of his sword to yield him. Nay, said\nSir Tristram, ye shall not do so, for well I know your proffers,\nand more of your gentleness than for any fear or dread ye have of\nme. And therewithal Sir Tristram proffered him his sword and\nsaid: Sir Lamorak, as an overcome knight I yield me unto you as\nto a man of the most noble prowess that ever I met withal. Nay,\nsaid Sir Lamorak, I will do you gentleness; I require you let us\nbe sworn together that never none of us shall after this day have\nado with other. And therewithal Sir Tristram and Sir Lamorak\nsware that never none of them should fight against other, nor for\nweal nor for woe.","title":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK IX CHAPTER XI","type":"page"}