thou be such a
knight as men call thee, I require thee, alight, and fight with me. Sir
Lamorak, said Sir Tristram, I understand your heart is great, and cause
why ye have, to say thee sooth; for it would grieve me an any knight
should keep him fresh and then to strike down a weary knight, for that
knight nor horse was never formed that alway might stand or endure.
And therefore, said Sir Tristram, I will not have ado with you, for me
forthinketh of that I have done. As for that, said Sir Lamorak, I shall
quit you, an ever I see my time.

CHAPTER XXXIV. How Sir Lamorak sent an horn to King Mark in despite of
Sir Tristram, and how Sir Tristram was driven into a chapel.

So he departed from him with Sir Driant, and by the way they met with
a knight that was sent from Morgan le Fay unto King Arthur; and this
knight had a fair horn harnessed with gold, and the horn had such a
virtue that there might no lady nor gentlewoman drink of that horn but
if she were true to her husband, and if she were false she should
spill all the drink, and if she were true to her lord she might drink
peaceable. And because of the Queen Guenever, and in the despite of Sir
Launcelot, this horn was sent unto King Arthur; and by force Sir Lamorak
made that knight to tell all the cause why he bare that horn. Now shalt
thou bear this horn, said Lamorak, unto King Mark, or else choose thou
to die for it; for I tell thee plainly, in despite and reproof of Sir
Tristram thou shalt bear that horn unto King Mark, his uncle, and say
thou to him that I sent it him for to assay his lady, and if she be true
to him he shall prove her. So the knight went his way unto King Mark,
and brought him that rich horn, and said that Sir Lamorak sent it him,
and thereto he told him the virtue of that horn. Then the king made
Queen Isoud to drink thereof, and an hundred ladies, and there were but
four ladies of all those that drank clean. Alas, said King Mark, this is
a great despite, and sware a great oath that she should be burnt and the
other ladies.

Then the barons gathered them together, and said plainly they would not
have those ladies burnt for an horn made by sorcery, that came from as
false a sorceress and witch as then was living. For that horn did never
good, but caused strife and debate, and always in her days she had been
an enemy to all true lovers. So there were many knights made their avow,
an ever they met with Morgan le Fay, that they would show her s