{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/mart/mart246.htm","path":"neu/mart/mart246.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/mart/mart246.htm","text":"CHAPTER IX\nHow King Mark, Sir Lamorak, and Sir Dinadan came to\na castle, and how King Mark was known there.\nTHEN they rode forth all together, King Mark, Sir\nLamorak, and Sir Dinadan, till that they came to a\nbridge, and at the end thereof stood a fair tower. Then\nsaw they a knight on horseback well armed, brandishing\na spear, crying and proffering himself to joust. Now,\nsaid Sir Dinadan unto King Mark, yonder are two\nbrethren, that one hight Alein, and the other hight\nTrian, that will joust with any that passeth this passage.\nNow proffer yourself, said Dinadan to King Mark, for\never ye be laid to the earth. Then King Mark was\nashamed, and therewith he feutred his spear, and hurtled\nto Sir Trian, and either brake their spears all to pieces,\nand passed through anon. Then Sir Trian sent King\nMark another spear to joust more; but in no wise he\nwould not joust no more. Then they came to the castle\nall three knights, and prayed the lord of the castle of\nharbour. Ye are right welcome, said the knights of the\ncastle, for the love of the lord of this castle, the which\nhight Sir Tor le Fise Aries. And then they came into a\nfair court well repaired, and they had passing good cheer,\ntill the lieutenant of this castle, that hight Berluse, espied\nKing Mark of Cornwall. Then said Berluse: Sir knight,\nI know you better than you ween, for ye are King Mark\nthat slew my father afore mine own eyen; and me had\nye slain had I not escaped into a wood; but wit ye well,\nfor the love of my lord of this castle I will neither hurt\nyou nor harm you, nor none of your fellowship. But\nwit ye well, when ye are past this lodging I shall hurt\nyou an I may, for ye slew my father traitorly. But first\nfor the love of my lord, Sir Tor, and for the love of Sir\nLamorak, the honourable knight that here is lodged, ye\nshall have none ill lodging; for it is pity that ever ye\nshould be in the company of good knights; for ye are\nthe most villainous knight or king that is now known\nalive, for ye are a destroyer of good knights, and all\nthat ye do is but treason.","title":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK X CHAPTER IX","type":"page"}