ars,
and so did the other two. And all this while Sir Marhaus touched them
not. Then Sir Marhaus ran to the duke, and smote him with his spear that
horse and man fell to the earth, and so he served his sons; and then Sir
Marhaus alighted down and bade the duke yield him or else he would slay
him. And then some of his sons recovered, and would have set upon Sir
Marhaus; then Sir Marhaus said to the duke, Cease thy sons, or else I
will do the uttermost to you all. Then the duke saw he might not escape
the death, he cried to his sons, and charged them to yield them to Sir
Marhaus; and they kneeled all down and put the pommels of their swords
to the knight, and so he received them. And then they helped up their
father, and so by their cominal assent promised to Sir Marhaus never to
be foes unto King Arthur, and thereupon at Whitsuntide after to come, he
and his sons, and put them in the king's grace.

Then Sir Marhaus departed, and within two days his damosel brought him
whereas was a great tournament that the Lady de Vawse had cried. And
who that did best should have a rich circlet of gold worth a thousand
besants. And there Sir Marhaus did so nobly that he was renowned, and
had sometime down forty knights, and so the circlet of gold was rewarded
him. Then he departed from them with great worship; and so within seven
nights his damosel brought him to an earl's place, his name was the Earl
Fergus, that after was Sir Tristram's knight; and this earl was but a
young man, and late come into his lands, and there was a giant fast
by him that hight Taulurd, and he had another brother in Cornwall that
hight Taulas, that Sir Tristram slew when he was out of his mind. So
this earl made his complaint unto Sir Marhaus, that there was a giant by
him that destroyed all his lands, and how he durst nowhere ride nor go
for him. Sir, said the knight, whether useth he to fight on horseback or
on foot? Nay, said the earl, there may no horse bear him. Well, said Sir
Marhaus, then will I fight with him on foot; so on the morn Sir Marhaus
prayed the earl that one of his men might bring him whereas the giant
was; and so he was, for he saw him sit under a tree of holly, and many
clubs of iron and gisarms about him. So this knight dressed him to the
giant, putting his shield afore him, and the giant took an iron club in
his hand, and at the first stroke he clave Sir Marhaus' shield in
two pieces. And there he was in great peril, for the giant was a