hort
courtesy. Also Sir Tristram was passing wroth that Sir Lamorak sent that
horn unto King Mark, for well he knew that it was done in the despite of
him. And therefore he thought to quite Sir Lamorak.

Then Sir Tristram used daily and nightly to go to Queen Isoud when he
might, and ever Sir Andred his cousin watched him night and day for to
take him with La Beale Isoud. And so upon a night Sir Andred espied the
hour and the time when Sir Tristram went to his lady. Then Sir Andred
gat unto him twelve knights, and at midnight he set upon Sir Tristram
secretly and suddenly and there Sir Tristram was taken naked abed with
La Beale Isoud, and then was he bound hand and foot, and so was he kept
until day. And then by the assent of King Mark, and of Sir Andred, and
of some of the barons, Sir Tristram was led unto a chapel that stood
upon the sea rocks, there for to take his judgment: and so he was led
bounden with forty knights. And when Sir Tristram saw that there was
none other boot but needs that he must die, then said he: Fair lords,
remember what I have done for the country of Cornwall, and in what
jeopardy I have been in for the weal of you all; for when I fought for
the truage of Cornwall with Sir Marhaus, the good knight, I was promised
for to be better rewarded, when ye all refused to take the battle;
therefore, as ye be good gentle knights, see me not thus shamefully to
die, for it is shame to all knighthood thus to see me die; for I dare
say, said Sir Tristram, that I never met with no knight but I was as
good as he, or better. Fie upon thee, said Sir Andred, false traitor
that thou art, with thine avaunting; for all thy boast thou shalt die
this day. O Andred, Andred, said Sir Tristram, thou shouldst be my
kinsman, and now thou art to me full unfriendly, but an there were no
more but thou and I, thou wouldst not put me to death. No! said Sir
Andred, and therewith he drew his sword, and would have slain him.

When Sir Tristram saw him make such countenance he looked upon both his
hands that were fast bounden unto two knights, and suddenly he pulled
them both to him, and unwrast his hands, and then he leapt unto his
cousin, Sir Andred, and wrested his sword out of his hands; then he
smote Sir Andred that he fell to the earth, and so Sir Tristram fought
till that he had killed ten knights. So then Sir Tristram gat the chapel
and kept it mightily. Then the cry was great, and the people drew fast
unto Sir Andred, mo