{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/mart/mart235.htm","path":"neu/mart/mart235.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/mart/mart235.htm","text":"CHAPTER XLII\nHow Sir Tristram took with him the shield, and also how\nhe slew the paramour of Morgan le Fay.\nSO then Sir Tristram took his leave of the queen, and took the\nshield with him. Then came the knight that held Queen Morgan le\nFay, his name was Sir Hemison, and he made him ready to follow\nSir Tristram. Fair friend, said Morgan, ride not after that\nknight, for ye shall not win no worship of him. Fie on him,\ncoward, said Sir Hemison, for I wist never good knight come out\nof Cornwall but if it were Sir Tristram de Liones. What an that\nbe he? said she. Nay, nay, said he, he is with La Beale Isoud,\nand this is but a daffish knight. Alas, my fair friend, ye shall\nfind him the best knight that ever ye met withal, for I know him\nbetter than ye do. For your sake, said Sir Hemison, I shall slay\nhim. Ah, fair friend, said the queen, me repenteth that ye will\nfollow that knight, for I fear me sore of your again coming.\nWith this this knight rode his way wood wroth, and he rode after\nSir Tristram as fast as he had been chased with knights. When\nSir Tristram heard a knight come after him so fast he returned\nabout, and saw a knight coming against him. And when he came\nnigh to Sir Tristram he cried on high: Sir knight, keep thee\nfrom me. Then they rushed together as it had been thunder, and\nSir Hemison brised his spear upon Sir Tristram, but his harness\nwas so good that he might not <430>hurt him. And Sir Tristram\nsmote him harder, and bare him through the body, and he fell over\nhis horse's croup. Then Sir Tristram turned to have done more\nwith his sword, but he saw so much blood go from him that him\nseemed he was likely to die, and so he departed from him and came\nto a fair manor to an old knight, and there Sir Tristram lodged.","title":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK IX CHAPTER XLII","type":"page"}