Then he said: More, I am in a quest that I must do myself alone. Now
God speed you, said Sir Lamorak, and so they departed. Then Sir Lamorak
came to Sir Frol and horsed him again. What knight is that? said Sir
Frol. Sir, he said, it is not for you to know, nor it is no point of my
charge. Ye are the more uncourteous, said Sir Frol, and therefore I
will depart from you. Ye may do as ye list, said Sir Lamorak, and yet
by my company ye have saved the fairest flower of your garland; so they
departed.
CHAPTER XLI. How Sir Lamorak slew Sir Frol, and of the courteous
fighting with Sir Belliance his brother.
Then within two or three days Sir Lamorak found a knight at a well
sleeping, and his lady sat with him and waked. Right so came Sir
Gawaine and took the knight’s lady, and set her up behind his squire.
So Sir Lamorak rode after Sir Gawaine, and said: Sir Gawaine, turn
again. And then said Sir Gawaine: What will ye do with me? for I am
nephew unto King Arthur. Sir, said he, for that cause I will spare you,
else that lady should abide with me, or else ye should joust with me.
Then Sir Gawaine turned him and ran to him that ought the lady, with
his spear, but the knight with pure might smote down Sir Gawaine, and
took his lady with him. All this Sir Lamorak saw, and said to himself:
But I revenge my fellow he will say of me dishonour in King Arthur’s
court. Then Sir Lamorak returned and proffered that knight to joust.
Sir, said he, I am ready. And there they came together with all their
might, and there Sir Lamorak smote the knight through both sides that
he fell to the earth dead.
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