{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/mart/mart309.htm","path":"neu/mart/mart309.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/mart/mart309.htm","text":"CHAPTER LXXII\nHow Sir Dinadan provoked Sir Tristram to do well.\nAND thou, Sir Tristram, farest all this day as though thou\nhadst been asleep, and therefore I call thee coward. Well,\nDinadan, said Sir Tristram, I was never called coward or\nnow of no earthly knight in my life; and wit thou well,\nsir, I call myself never the more coward though Sir\nLauncelot gave me a fall, for I outcept him of all knights.\nAnd doubt ye not Sir Dinadan, an Sir Launcelot have a\nquarrel good, he is too over good for any knight that now\nis living; and yet of his sufferance, largess, bounty, and\ncourtesy, I call him knight peerless: and so Sir Tristram\nwas in manner wroth with Sir Dinadan. But all this\nlanguage Sir Dinadan said because he would anger Sir\nTristram, for to cause him to awake his spirits and to be\nwroth; for well knew Sir Dinadan that an Sir Tristram\nwere thoroughly wroth Sir Palomides should not get the\nprize upon the morn. And for this intent Sir Dinadan\nsaid all this railing and language against Sir Tristram.\nTruly, said Sir Palomides, as for Sir Launcelot, of his\nnoble knighthood, courtesy, and prowess, and gentleness,\nI know not his peer; for this day, said Sir Palomides, I\ndid full uncourteously unto Sir Launcelot, and full unknightly,\nand full knightly and courteously he did to me\nagain; for an he had been as ungentle to me as I was to\nhim, this day I had won no worship. And therefore, said\nPalomides, I shall be Sir Launcelot's knight while my life\nlasteth. This talking was in the houses of kings. But all\nkings, lords, and knights, said, of clear knighthood, and\nof pure strength, of bounty, of courtesy, Sir Launcelot\nand Sir Tristram bare the prize above all knights that ever\nwere in Arthur's days. And there were never knights in\nArthur's days did half so many deeds as they did; as the\nbook saith, no ten knights did not half the deeds that they\ndid, and there was never knight in their days that required\nSir Launcelot or Sir Tristram of any quest, so it were not\nto their shame, but they performed their desire.","title":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK X CHAPTER LXXII","type":"page"}