{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/mart/mart330.htm","path":"neu/mart/mart330.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/mart/mart330.htm","text":"CHAPTER V\nHow Sir Bors made Sir Pedivere to yield him, and of\nmarvellous adventures that he had, and how he achieved\nthem.\nTHEN Sir Bors thought he should no more go into that\nchamber to rest him, and so Sir Bors dressed him betwixt\nthe knight and that chamber door, and there Sir Bors\nsmote him down, and then that knight yielded him\nWhat is your name? said Sir Bors. Sir, said he, my name\nis Pedivere of the Straight Marches. So Sir Bors made\nhim to swear at Whitsunday next coming to be at the\ncourt of King Arthur, and yield him there as a prisoner\nas an overcome knight by the hands of Sir Bors. So thus\ndeparted Sir Pedivere of the Straight Marches. And then\nSir Bors laid him down to rest, and then he heard and felt\nmuch noise in that chamber; and then Sir Bors espied\nthat there came in, he wist not whether at the doors nor\nwindows, shot of arrows and of quarrels so thick that he\nmarvelled, and many fell upon him and hurt him in the\nbare places.\nAnd then Sir Bors was ware where came in an hideous\nlion; so Sir Bors dressed him unto the lion, and anon the\nlion bereft him his shield, and with his sword Sir Bors\nsmote off the lion's head. Right so Sir Bors forthwithal\nsaw a dragon in the court passing horrible, and there\nseemed letters of gold written in his forehead; and Sir Bors\nthought that the letters made a signification of King\nArthur. Right so there came an horrible leopard and an\nold, and there they fought long, and did great battle\ntogether. And at the last the dragon spit out of his\nmouth as it had been an hundred dragons; and lightly all\nthe small dragons slew the old dragon and tare him all to\npieces.\nAnon withal there came an old man into the hall, and\nhe sat him down in a fair chair, and there seemed to be\ntwo adders about his neck; and then the old man had\nan harp, and there he sang an old song how Joseph of\nArmathie came into this land. Then when he had sung, the\nold man bade Sir Bors go from thence. For here shall ye\nhave no more adventures; and full worshipfully have ye\ndone, and better shall ye do hereafter. And then Sir Bors\nseemed that there came the whitest dove with a little golden\ncenser in her mouth. And anon therewithal the tempest\nceased and passed, that afore was marvellous to hear. So\nwas all that court full of good savours. Then Sir Bors saw\nfour children bearing four fair tapers, and an old man in\nthe midst of the children with a censer in his own hand,\nand a spear in his other hand, and that spear was called the\nSpear of Vengeance.","title":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK XI CHAPTER V","type":"page"}