{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/mart/mart220.htm","path":"neu/mart/mart220.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/mart/mart220.htm","text":"CHAPTER XXVII\nHow damosel Bragwaine found Tristram sleeping by a well,\nand how she delivered letters to him from La Beale Isoud.\nAND then he pulled off his helm and washed his visage and his\nhands, and so he fell asleep. In the meanwhile came a damosel\nthat had sought Sir Tristram many ways and days within this land.\nAnd when she came to the well she looked upon him, and had\nforgotten him as in remembrance of Sir Tristram, but by his horse\nshe knew him, that hight Passe-Brewel that had been Sir\nTristram's horse many years. For when he was mad in the forest\nSir Fergus kept him. So this lady, Dame Bragwaine, abode still\ntill he was awake. So when she saw him wake she saluted him, and\nhe her again, for either knew other of old acquaintance; then she\ntold him how she had sought him long and broad, and there she\ntold him how she had letters from Queen La Beale Isoud. Then\nanon Sir Tristram read them, and wit ye well he was glad, for\ntherein was many a piteous complaint. Then Sir Tristram said:\nLady Bragwaine, ye shall ride with me till that tournament be\ndone at the Castle of Maidens, and then shall bear letters and\ntidings with you. And then Sir Tristram took his horse and\nsought lodging, and there he met with a good ancient knight and\nprayed him to lodge with him. Right so came Gouvernail unto Sir\nTristram, that was glad of that lady. So this old knight's name\nwas Sir Pellounes, and he told of the great tournament that\nshould be at the Castle of Maidens. And there Sir Launcelot and\nthirty-two knights of his blood had ordained shields of Cornwall.\nAnd right so there came one unto Sir Pellounes, and told him that\nSir Persides de Bloise was come home; then that knight held up\nhis hands and thanked God of his coming home. And there Sir\nPellounes told Sir Tristram that in two years he had not seen his\nson, Sir Persides. Sir, said Sir Tristram, I know your son well\nenough for a good knight.\n<399>\nSo on a time Sir Tristram and Sir Persides came to their lodging\nboth at once, and so they unarmed them, and put upon them their\nclothing. And then these two knights each welcomed other. And\nwhen Sir Persides understood that Sir Tristram was of Cornwall,\nhe said he was once in Cornwall: And there I jousted afore King\nMark; and so it happed me at that time to overthrow ten knights,\nand then came to me Sir Tristram de Liones and overthrew me, and\ntook my lady away from me, and that shall I never forget, but I\nshall remember me an ever I see my time. Ah, said Sir Tristram,\nnow I understand that ye hate Sir Tristram. What deem ye, ween\nye that Sir Tristram is not able to withstand your malice? Yes,\nsaid Sir Persides, I know well that Sir Tristram is a noble\nknight and a much better knight than I, yet shall I not owe him\nmy good will. Right as they stood thus talking at a bay-window\nof that castle, they saw many knights riding to and fro toward\nthe tournament. And then was Sir Tristram ware of a likely\nknight riding upon a great black horse, and a black-covered\nshield. What knight is that, said Sir Tristram, with the black\nhorse and the black shield? he seemeth a good knight. I know him\nwell, said Sir Persides, he is one of the best knights of the\nworld. Then is it Sir Launcelot, said Tristram. Nay, said Sir\nPersides, it is Sir Palomides, that is yet unchristened.","title":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK IX CHAPTER XXVII","type":"page"}