Notwithstanding, when King Mark had done this deed, yet he thought to
do more vengeance; and with his sword in his hand, he sought from
chamber to chamber, to seek Anglides and her young son. And when she
was missed he called a good knight that hight Sadok, and charged him by
pain of death to fetch Anglides again and her young son. So Sir Sadok
departed and rode after Anglides. And within ten mile he overtook her,
and bade her turn again and ride with him to King Mark. Alas, fair
knight, she said, what shall ye win by my son’s death or by mine? I
have had overmuch harm and too great a loss. Madam, said Sadok, of your
loss is dole and pity; but madam, said Sadok, would ye depart out of
this country with your son, and keep him till he be of age, that he may
revenge his father’s death, then would I suffer you to depart from me,
so you promise me to revenge the death of Prince Boudwin. Ah, gentle
knight, Jesu thank thee, and if ever my son, Alisander le Orphelin,
live to be a knight, he shall have his father’s doublet and his shirt
with the bloody marks, and I shall give him such a charge that he shall
remember it while he liveth. And therewithal Sadok departed from her,
and either betook other to God. And when Sadok came to King Mark he
told him faithfully that he had drowned young Alisander her son; and
thereof King Mark was full glad.
Now turn we unto Anglides, that rode both night and day by adventure
out of Cornwall, and little and in few places she rested; but ever she
drew southward to the seaside, till by fortune she came to a castle
that is called Magouns, and now it is called Arundel, in Sussex. And
the Constable of the castle welcomed her, and said she was welcome to
her own castle; and there was Anglides worshipfully received, for the
Constable’s wife was nigh her cousin, and the Constable’s name was
Bellangere; and that same Constable told Anglides that the same castle
was hers by right inheritance. Thus Anglides endured years and winters,
till Alisander was big and strong; there was none so wight in all that
country, neither there was none that might do no manner of mastery
afore him.
CHAPTER XXXIV. How Anglides gave the bloody doublet to Alisander, her
son, the same day that he was made knight, and the charge withal.
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