{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/mart/mart225.htm","path":"neu/mart/mart225.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/mart/mart225.htm","text":"CHAPTER XXXII\nHow Sir Tristram found Palomides by a well, and brought\nhim with him to his lodging.\nTHEN the King with the Hundred Knights withdrew his knights. And\nall this while, and long to-fore, Sir Launcelot had watched upon\nSir Tristram with a very purpose to have fellowshipped with him.\nAnd then suddenly Sir Tristram, Sir Dinadan, and Gouvernail, his\nman, rode their way into the forest, that no man perceived where\nthey went. So then King Arthur blew unto lodging, and gave the\nKing of Northgalis the prize because Sir Tristram was upon his\nside. Then Sir Launcelot rode here and there, so wood as lion\nthat fauted his fill, because he had lost Sir Tristram, and so he\nreturned unto King Arthur. And then in all the field was a noise\nthat with the wind it might be heard two mile thence, how the\nlords and ladies cried: The Knight with the Black Shield hath\nwon the field. Alas, said King Arthur, where is that knight\nbecome? It is shame to all those in the field so to let him\nescape away from you; but with gentleness and courtesy ye might\nhave brought him unto me to the Castle of Maidens. Then the\nnoble King Arthur went unto his knights and comforted them in the\nbest wise that he could, and said: My fair fellows, be not\ndismayed, howbeit ye have lost the field this day. And many were\nhurt and sore wounded, and many were whole. My fellows, said\nKing Arthur, look that ye be of good cheer, for to-morn I will be\nin the field with you and revenge you of your enemies. So that\nnight King Arthur and his knights reposed themself.\nThe damosel that came from La Beale Isoud unto Sir Tristram, all\nthe while the tournament was a-doing she was with Queen Guenever,\nand ever the queen asked her for what cause she came into that\ncountry. Madam, she answered, I come for none other cause but\nfrom my lady <408>La Beale Isoud to wit of your welfare. For in\nno wise she would not tell the queen that she came for Sir\nTristram's sake. So this lady, Dame Bragwaine, took her leave of\nQueen Guenever, and she rode after Sir Tristram. And as she rode\nthrough the forest she heard a great cry; then she commanded her\nsquire to go into the forest to wit what was that noise. And so\nhe came to a well, and there he found a knight bounden till a\ntree crying as he had been wood, and his horse and his harness\nstanding by him. And when he espied that squire, therewith he\nabraid and brake himself loose, and took his sword in his hand,\nand ran to have slain the squire. Then he took his horse and\nfled all that ever he might unto Dame Bragwaine, and told her of\nhis adventure. Then she rode unto Sir Tristram's pavilion, and\ntold Sir Tristram what adventure she had found in the forest.\nAlas, said Sir Tristram, upon my head there is some good knight\nat mischief.\nThen Sir Tristram took his horse and his sword and rode thither,\nand there he heard how the knight complained unto himself and\nsaid: I, woful knight Sir Palomides, what misadventure befalleth\nme, that thus am defoiled with falsehood and treason, through Sir\nBors and Sir Ector. Alas, he said, why live I so long! And then\nhe gat his sword in his hands, and made many strange signs and\ntokens; and so through his raging he threw his sword into that\nfountain. Then Sir Palomides wailed and wrang his hands. And at\nthe last for pure sorrow he ran into that fountain, over his\nbelly, and sought after his sword. Then Sir Tristram saw that,\nand ran upon Sir Palomides, and held him in his arms fast. What\nart thou, said Palomides, that holdeth me so? I am a man of this\nforest that would thee none harm. Alas, said Sir Palomides, I\nmay never win worship where Sir Tristram is; for ever where he is\nan I be there, then get I no worship; and if he be away for the\nmost part I have the gree, unless that Sir Launcelot be there or\nSir Lamorak. Then Sir Palomides said: Once in Ireland Sir\nTristram put me to the worse, and another time in Cornwall, and\nin other places in this land. What would ye do, said Sir\n<409>Tristram, an ye had Sir Tristram? I would fight with him,\nsaid Sir Palomides, and ease my heart upon him; and yet, to say\nthee sooth, Sir Tristram is the gentlest knight in this world\nliving. What will ye do, said Sir Tristram, will ye go with me\nto your lodging? Nay, said he, I will go to the King with the\nHundred Knights, for he rescued me from Sir Bors de Ganis and Sir\nEctor and else had I been slain traitorly. Sir Tristram said him\nsuch kind words that Sir Palomides went with him to his lodging.\nThen Gouvernail went to-fore, and charged Dame Bragwaine to go\nout of the way to her lodging And bid ye Sir Persides that he\nmake him no quarrels. And so they rode together till they came\nto Sir Tristram's pavilion, and there Sir Palomides had all the\ncheer that might be had all that night. But in no wise Sir\nPalomides might not know what was Sir Tristram; and so after\nsupper they yede to rest, and Sir Tristram for great travail\nslept till it was day. And Sir Palomides might not sleep for\nanguish; and in the dawning of the day he took his horse privily,\nand rode his way unto Sir Gaheris and unto Sir Sagramore le\nDesirous, where they were in their pavilions; for they three were\nfellows at the beginning of the tournament. And then upon the\nmorn the king blew unto the tournament upon the third day.","title":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK IX CHAPTER XXXII","type":"page"}