Then departed Sir Suppinabiles unto Brittany again, and there he found
Sir Tristram, and told him that he had been in King Arthur’s court.
Then said Sir Tristram: Heard ye anything of me? So God me help, said
Sir Suppinabiles, there I heard Sir Launcelot speak of you great shame,
and that ye be a false knight to your lady and he bade me do you to wit
that he will be your mortal enemy in every place where he may meet you.
That me repenteth, said Tristram, for of all knights I loved to be in
his fellowship. So Sir Tristram made great moan and was ashamed that
noble knights should defame him for the sake of his lady. And in this
meanwhile La Beale Isoud made a letter unto Queen Guenever, complaining
her of the untruth of Sir Tristram, and how he had wedded the king’s
daughter of Brittany. Queen Guenever sent her another letter, and bade
her be of good cheer, for she should have joy after sorrow, for Sir
Tristram was so noble a knight called, that by crafts of sorcery ladies
would make such noble men to wed them. But in the end, Queen Guenever
said, it shall be thus, that he shall hate her, and love you better
than ever he did to-fore.
So leave we Sir Tristram in Brittany, and speak we of Sir Lamorak de
Galis, that as he sailed his ship fell on a rock and perished all, save
Sir Lamorak and his squire; and there he swam mightily, and fishers of
the Isle of Servage took him up, and his squire was drowned, and the
shipmen had great labour to save Sir Lamorak’s life, for all the
comfort that they could do.
And the lord of that isle, hight Sir Nabon le Noire, a great mighty
giant. And this Sir Nabon hated all the knights of King Arthur’s, and
in no wise he would do them favour. And these fishers told Sir Lamorak
all the guise of Sir Nabon; how there came never knight of King
Arthur’s but he destroyed him. And at the last battle that he did was
slain Sir Nanowne le Petite, the which he put to a shameful death in
despite of King Arthur, for he was drawn limb-meal. That forthinketh
me, said Sir Lamorak, for that knight’s death, for he was my cousin;
and if I were at mine ease as well as ever I was, I would revenge his
death. Peace, said the fishers, and make here no words, for or ever ye
depart from hence Sir Nabon must know that ye have been here, or else
we should die for your sake. So that I be whole, said Lamorak, of my
disease that I have taken in the sea, I will that ye tell him that I am
a knight of King Arthur’s, for I was never afeard to reneye my lord.
CHAPTER XXXVIII. How Sir Tristram and his wife arrived in Wales, and
how he met there with Sir Lamorak.
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