{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/mart/mart247.htm","path":"neu/mart/mart247.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/mart/mart247.htm","text":"CHAPTER X\nHow Sir Berluse met with King Mark, and how\nSir Dinadan took his part.\nTHEN was King Mark sore ashamed, and said but little\nagain. But when Sir Lamorak and Sir Dinadan wist that\nhe was King Mark they were sorry of his fellowship.\nSo after supper they went to lodging. So on the morn\nthey arose early, and King Mark and Sir Dinadan rode\ntogether; and three mile from their lodging there met\nwith them three knights, and Sir Berluse was one, and\nthat other his two cousins. Sir Berluse saw King Mark,\nand then he cried on high: Traitor, keep thee from me\nfor wit thou well that I am Berluse. Sir knight, said Sir\nDinadan, I counsel you to leave off at this time, for he is\nriding to King Arthur; and because I have promised to\nconduct him to my lord King Arthur needs must I take\na part with him; howbeit I love not his condition, and\nfain I would be from him. Well, Dinadan, said Sir\nBerluse, me repenteth that ye will take part with him,\nbut now do your best. And then he hurtled to King\nMark, and smote him sore upon the shield, that he bare\nhim clean out of his saddle to the earth. That saw Sir\nDinadan, and he feutred his spear, and ran to one of\nBerluse's fellows, and smote him down off his saddle.\nThen Dinadan turned his horse, and smote the third\nknight in the same wise to the earth, for Sir Dinadan\nwas a good knight on horseback; and there began a great\nbattle, for Berluse and his fellows held them together\nstrongly on foot. And so through the great force of Sir\nDinadan King Mark had Berluse to the earth, and his\ntwo fellows fled; and had not been Sir Dinadan King\nMark would have slain him. And so Sir Dinadan\nrescued him of his life, for King Mark was but a\nmurderer. And then they took their horses and departed\nand left Sir Berluse there sore wounded.\nThen King Mark and Sir Dinadan rode forth a four\nleagues English, till that they came to a bridge where\nhoved a knight on horseback, armed and ready to joust.\nLo, said Sir Dinadan unto King Mark, yonder hoveth a\nknight that will joust, for there shall none pass this\nbridge but he must joust with that knight. It is well,\nsaid King Mark, for this jousts falleth with thee. Sir\nDinadan knew the knight well that he was a noble knight,\nand fain he would have jousted, but he had had liefer\nKing Mark had jousted with him, but by no mean King\nMark would not joust. Then Sir Dinadan might not\nrefuse him in no manner. And then either dressed their\nspears and their shields, and smote together, so that\nthrough fine force Sir Dinadan was smitten to the earth;\nand lightly he rose up and gat his horse, and required\nthat knight to do battle with swords. And he answered\nand said: Fair knight, as at this time I may not have ado\nwith you no more, for the custom of this passage is such.\nThen was Sir Dinadan passing wroth that he might not be\nrevenged of that knight; and so he departed, and in no\nwise would that knight tell his name. But ever Sir\nDinadan thought he should know him by his shield that\nit should be Sir Tor.","title":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK X CHAPTER X","type":"page"}