{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/mart/mart271.htm","path":"neu/mart/mart271.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/mart/mart271.htm","text":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK X CHAPTER XXXIV\n \n Sacred Texts\u00a0\n Legends and Sagas\u00a0\n Index\u00a0\n BOOK X\u00a0\n Previous\u00a0\n Next\u00a0\n \n \n CHAPTER XXXIV\n \n How Anglides gave the bloody doublet to Alisander, her son,\n the same day that he was made knight, and the charge\n withal.\n \n \n THEN upon a day Bellangere the Constable came to\n Anglides and said: Madam, it were time my lord Alisander\n were made knight, for he is a passing strong\n young man. Sir, said she, I would he were made knight;\n but then must I give him the most charge that ever\n sinful mother gave to her child. Do as ye list, said\n Bellangere, and I shall give him warning that he shall be\n made knight. Now it will be well done that he may be\n made knight at our Lady Day in Lent. Be it so, said\n Anglides, and I pray you make ready therefore. So came\n the Constable to Alisander, and told him that he should\n at our Lady Day in Lent be made knight. I thank God,\n said Alisander; these are the best tidings that ever came\n to me. Then the Constable ordained twenty of the\n greatest gentlemen's sons, and the best born men of the\n country, that should be made knights that same day that\n Alisander was made knight. So on the same day that\n Alisander and his twenty fellows were made knights, at\n the offering of the mass there came Anglides unto her\n son and said thus: O fair sweet son, I charge thee upon\n my blessing, and of the high order of chivalry that thou\n takest here this day, that thou understand what I shall\n say and charge thee withal. Therewithal she pulled out a\n bloody doublet and a bloody shirt, that were be-bled with\n old blood. When Alisander saw this he stert aback and\n waxed pale, and said: Fair mother, what may this mean?\n I shall tell thee, fair son: this was thine own father's\n doublet and shirt, that he wore upon him that same day\n that he was slain. And there she told him why and\n wherefore, and how for his goodness King Mark slew\n him with his dagger afore mine own eyen. And therefore\n this shall be your charge that I shall give thee.","title":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK X CHAPTER XXXIV","type":"page"}