{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/mart/mart315.htm","path":"neu/mart/mart315.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/mart/mart315.htm","text":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK X CHAPTER LXXVIII\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 LXXVIII\n \n How King Arthur and Sir Launcelot came unto their pavilions\n as they sat at supper, and of Sir Palomides.\n \n \n AND therewithal two knights armed came unto the pavilion,\n and there they alighted both, and came in armed at all\n pieces. Fair knights, said Sir Tristram, ye are to blame to\n come thus armed at all pieces upon me while we are at\n our meat; if ye would anything when we were in the field\n there might ye have eased your hearts. Not so, said the\n one of those knights, we come not for that intent, but wit\n ye well Sir Tristram, we be come hither as your friends.\n And I am come here, said the one, for to see you, and this\n knight is come for to see La Beale Isoud. Then said Sir\n Tristram: I require you do off your helms that I may see\n you. That will we do at your desire, said the knights.\n And when their helms were off, Sir Tristram thought that\n he should know them.\n \n Then said Sir Dinadan privily unto Sir Tristram: Sir,\n that is Sir Launcelot du Lake that spake unto you first,\n and the other is my lord King Arthur. Then, said Sir\n Tristram unto La Beale Isoud, Madam arise, for here is my\n lord, King Arthur. Then the king and the queen kissed,\n and Sir Launcelot and Sir Tristram braced either other in\n arms, and then there was joy without measure; and at the\n request of La Beale Isoud, King Arthur and Launcelot\n were unarmed, and then there was merry talking. Madam,\n said Sir Arthur, it is many a day sithen that I have desired\n to see you, for ye have been praised so far; and now I dare\n say ye are the fairest that ever I saw, and Sir Tristram is\n as fair and as good a knight as any that I know; therefore\n me beseemeth ye are well beset together. Sir, God thank\n you, said the noble knight, Sir Tristram, and Isoud; of\n your great goodness and largess ye are peerless. Thus\n they talked of many things and of all the whole jousts. But\n for what cause, said King Arthur, were ye, Sir Tristram,\n against us? Ye are a knight of the Table Round; of right\n ye should have been with us. Sir, said Sir Tristram, here\n is Dinadan, and Sir Gareth your own nephew, caused me to\n be against you. My lord Arthur, said Gareth, I may well\n bear the blame, but it were Sir Tristram's own deeds.\n That may I repent, said Dinadan, for this unhappy Sir\n Tristram brought us to this tournament, and many great\n buffets he caused us to have. Then the king and Launcelot\n laughed that they might not sit.\n \n What knight was that, said Arthur, that held you so\n short, this with the shield of silver? Sir, said Sir\n Tristram, here he sitteth at this board. What, said Arthur,\n was it Sir Palomides? Wit ye well it was he, said La\n Beale Isoud. So God me help, said Arthur, that was\n unknightly done of you of so good a knight, for I have\n heard many people call you a courteous knight. Sir, said\n Palomides, I knew not Sir Tristram, for he was so disguised.\n So God me help, said Launcelot, it may well be, for I knew\n not Sir Tristram; but I marvel why ye turned on our\n party. That was done for the same cause, said Launcelot.\n As for that, said Sir Tristram, I have pardoned him, and\n I would be right loath to leave his fellowship, for I love\n right well his company: so they left off and talked of\n other things.\n \n And in the evening King Arthur and Sir Launcelot\n departed unto their lodging; but wit ye well Sir Palomides\n had envy heartily, for all that night he had never rest in\n his bed, but wailed and wept out of measure. So on the\n morn Sir Tristram, Gareth, and Dinadan arose early, and\n then they went unto Sir Palomides' chamber, and there\n they found him fast asleep, for he had all night watched,\n and it was seen upon his cheeks that he had wept full sore.\n Say nothing, said Sir Tristram, for I am sure he hath taken\n anger and sorrow for the rebuke that I gave to him, and\n La Beale Isoud.","title":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK X CHAPTER LXXVIII","type":"page"}