and hunt.

AND then he let ordain a gentleman that was well learned and taught,
his name was Gouvernail; and then he sent young Tristram with Gouvernail
into France to learn the language, and nurture, and deeds of arms. And
there was Tristram more than seven years. And then when he well could
speak the language, and had learned all that he might learn in that
country, then he came home to his father, King Meliodas, again. And so
Tristram learned to be an harper passing all other, that there was none
such called in no country, and so on harping and on instruments of music
he applied him in his youth for to learn.

And after, as he grew in might and strength, he laboured ever in hunting
and in hawking, so that never gentleman more, that ever we heard read
of. And as the book saith, he began good measures of blowing of beasts
of venery, and beasts of chase, and all manner of vermin, and all these
terms we have yet of hawking and hunting. And therefore the book of
venery, of hawking, and hunting, is called the book of Sir Tristram.
Wherefore, as meseemeth, all gentlemen that bear old arms ought of right
to honour Sir Tristram for the goodly terms that gentlemen have and
use, and shall to the day of doom, that thereby in a manner all men
of worship may dissever a gentleman from a yeoman, and from a yeoman a
villain. For he that gentle is will draw him unto gentle tatches, and to
follow the customs of noble gentlemen.

Thus Sir Tristram endured in Cornwall until he was big and strong, of
the age of eighteen years. And then the King Meliodas had great joy
of Sir Tristram, and so had the queen, his wife. For ever after in her
life, because Sir Tristram saved her from the fire, she did never hate
him more after, but loved him ever after, and gave Tristram many great
gifts; for every estate loved him, where that he went.

CHAPTER IV. How Sir Marhaus came out of Ireland for to ask truage of
Cornwall, or else he would fight therefore.

THEN it befell that King Anguish of Ireland sent unto King Mark of
Cornwall for his truage, that Cornwall had paid many winters. And all
that time King Mark was behind of the truage for seven years. And King
Mark and his barons gave unto the messenger of Ireland these words and
answer, that they would none pay; and bade the messenger go unto his
King Anguish, and tell him we will pay him no truage, but tell your
lord, an he will always have truage of us of Cornwall, bid him send a
trusty kn