{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/mart/mart219.htm","path":"neu/mart/mart219.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/mart/mart219.htm","text":"CHAPTER XXVI\nHow Sir Tristram and Sir Gawaine rode to have foughten\nwith the thirty knights, but they durst not come out.\nSIR, said Sir Gawaine, will ye stand with me, and we will see the\nmalice of these thirty knights. Sir, said Sir Tristram, go ye to\nthem, an it please you, and ye shall see I will not fail you, for\nit is not long ago since I and a fellow met with thirty knights\nof that queen's fellowship; and God speed us so that we may win\nworship. So then Sir Gawaine and Sir Tristram rode toward the\ncastle where Morgan le Fay was, and ever Sir Gawaine deemed well\nthat he was Sir Tristram de Liones, because he heard that two\nknights had slain and beaten thirty knights. And when they came\nafore the castle Sir Gawaine spake on high and said: Queen\nMorgan le Fay, send out your knights that ye have laid in a watch\nfor Sir Launcelot and for Sir Tristram. Now, said Sir Gawaine, I\nknow your false treason, and through all places where that I ride\nmen shall know of your false treason; and now let see, said Sir\n<397>Gawaine, whether ye dare come out of your castle, ye thirty\nknights. Then the queen spake and all the thirty knights at\nonce, and said: Sir Gawaine, full well wottest thou what thou\ndost and sayest; for by God we know thee passing well, but all\nthat thou speakest and dost, thou sayest it upon pride of that\ngood knight that is there with thee. For there be some of us\nthat know full well the hands of that knight over all well. And\nwit thou well, Sir Gawaine, it is more for his sake than for\nthine that we will not come out of this castle. For wit ye well,\nSir Gawaine, the knight that beareth the arms of Cornwall, we\nknow him and what he is.\nThen Sir Gawaine and Sir Tristram departed and rode on their ways\na day or two together; and there by adventure, they met with Sir\nKay and Sir Sagramore le Desirous. And then they were glad of\nSir Gawaine, and he of them, but they wist not what he was with\nthe shield of Cornwall, but by deeming. And thus they rode\ntogether a day or two. And then they were ware of Sir Breuse\nSaunce Pite chasing a lady for to have slain her, for he had\nslain her paramour afore. Hold you all still, said Sir Gawaine,\nand show none of you forth, and ye shall see me reward yonder\nfalse knight; for an he espy you he is so well horsed that he\nwill escape away. And then Sir Gawaine rode betwixt Sir Breuse\nand the lady, and said: False knight, leave her, and have ado\nwith me. When Sir Breuse saw no more but Sir Gawaine he feutred\nhis spear, and Sir Gawaine against him; and there Sir Breuse\noverthrew Sir Gawaine, and then he rode over him, and overthwart\nhim twenty times to have destroyed him; and when Sir Tristram saw\nhim do so villainous a deed, he hurled out against him. And when\nSir Breuse saw him with the shield of Cornwall he knew him well\nthat it was Sir Tristram, and then he fled, and Sir Tristram\nfollowed after him; and Sir Breuse Saunce Pite was so horsed that\nhe went his way quite, and Sir Tristram followed him long, for he\nwould fain have been avenged upon him. And so when he had long\nchased him, he saw a fair well, and thither he rode to repose\nhim, and tied his horse till a tree.\n<398>","title":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK IX CHAPTER XXVI","type":"page"}