she biddeth you haste into Brittany to King Howel, and
there ye shall find his daughter, Isoud la Blanche Mains, and she shall
help thee. Then Sir Tristram and Gouvernail gat them shipping, and so
sailed into Brittany. And when King Howel wist that it was Sir Tristram
he was full glad of him. Sir, he said, I am come into this country to
have help of your daughter, for it is told me that there is none other
may heal me but she; and so within a while she healed him.

CHAPTER XXXVI. How Sir Tristram served in war King Howel of Brittany,
and slew his adversary in the field.

THERE was an earl that hight Grip, and this earl made great war upon the
king, and put the king to the worse, and besieged him. And on a time
Sir Kehydius, that was son to King Howel, as he issued out he was sore
wounded, nigh to the death. Then Gouvernail went to the king and said:
Sir, I counsel you to desire my lord, Sir Tristram, as in your need to
help you. I will do by your counsel, said the king. And so he yede unto
Sir Tristram, and prayed him in his wars to help him: For my son, Sir
Kehydius, may not go into the field. Sir, said Sir Tristram, I will go
to the field and do what I may. Then Sir Tristram issued out of the
town with such fellowship as he might make, and did such deeds that all
Brittany spake of him. And then, at the last, by great might and force,
he slew the Earl Grip with his own hands, and more than an hundred
knights he slew that day. And then Sir Tristram was received
worshipfully with procession. Then King Howel embraced him in his
arms, and said: Sir Tristram, all my kingdom I will resign to thee.
God defend, said Sir Tristram, for I am beholden unto you for your
daughter's sake to do for you.

Then by the great means of King Howel and Kehydius his son, by great
proffers, there grew great love betwixt Isoud and Sir Tristram, for that
lady was both good and fair, and a woman of noble blood and fame.
And for because Sir Tristram had such cheer and riches, and all other
pleasaunce that he had, almost he had forsaken La Beale Isoud. And so
upon a time Sir Tristram agreed to wed Isoud la Blanche Mains. And at
the last they were wedded, and solemnly held their marriage. And so when
they were abed both Sir Tristram remembered him of his old lady La
Beale Isoud. And then he took such a thought suddenly that he was all
dismayed, and other cheer made he none but with clipping and kissing; as
for other fleshly lusts Sir Tristr