{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/mart/mart350.htm","path":"neu/mart/mart350.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/mart/mart350.htm","text":"CHAPTER XI\nHow La Beale Isoud counselled Sir Tristram to go unto the\ncourt, to the great feast of Pentecost.\nNOW will we leave off this matter, and speak we of Sir\nTristram, and of Sir Palomides that was the Saracen\nunchristened. When Sir Tristram was come home unto\nJoyous Gard from his adventures, all this while that Sir\nLauncelot was thus missed, two year and more, Sir\nTristram bare the renown through all the realm of Logris,\nand many strange adventures befell him, and full well and\nmanly and worshipfully he brought them to an end. So\nwhen he was come home La Beale Isoud told him of the\ngreat feast that should be at Pentecost next following, and\nthere she told him how Sir Launcelot had been missed two\nyear, and all that while he had been out of his mind, and\nhow he was holpen by the holy vessel, the Sangreal. Alas,\nsaid Sir Tristram, that caused some debate betwixt him\nand Queen Guenever. Sir, said Dame Isoud, I know it\nall, for Queen Guenever sent me a letter in the which she\nwrote me all how it was, for to require you to seek him.\nAnd now, blessed be God, said La Beale Isoud, he is whole\nand sound and come again to the court.\nThereof am I glad, said Sir Tristram, and now shall\nye and I make us ready, for both ye and I will be at the\nfeast. Sir, said Isoud, an it please you I will not be there,\nfor through me ye be marked of many good knights, and\nthat caused you to have much more labour for my sake\nthan needeth you. Then will I not be there, said Sir\nTristram, but if ye be there. God defend, said La Beale\nIsoud, for then shall I be spoken of shame among all\nqueens and ladies of estate; for ye that are called one of\nthe noblest knights of the world, and ye a knight of the\nRound Table, how may ye be missed at that feast? What\nshall be said among all knights? See how Sir Tristram\nhunteth, and hawketh, and cowereth within a castle with\nhis lady, and forsaketh your worship. Alas, shall some\nsay, it is pity that ever he was made knight, or that ever\nhe should have the love of a lady. Also what shall queens\nand ladies say of me? It is pity that I have my life, that\nI will hold so noble a knight as ye are from his worship.\nSo God me help, said Sir Tristram unto La Beale Isoud,\nit is passing well said of you and nobly counselled; and\nnow I well understand that ye love me; and like as ye\nhave counselled me I will do a part thereafter. But there\nshall no man nor child ride with me, but myself. And so\nwill I ride on Tuesday next coming, and no more harness\nof war but my spear and my sword.","title":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK XII CHAPTER XI","type":"page"}