ether in
the Isle of Servage, and at that time ye promised me great friendship.
Then Sir Tristram would make no longer delays, but lashed at Sir
Lamorak; and thus they fought long till either were weary of other. Then
Sir Tristram said to Sir Lamorak: In all my life met I never with such
a knight that was so big and well breathed as ye be, therefore, said Sir
Tristram, it were pity that any of us both should here be mischieved.
Sir said Sir Lamorak, for your renown and name I will that ye have the
worship of this battle, and therefore I will yield me unto you. And
therewith he took the point of his sword to yield him. Nay, said Sir
Tristram, ye shall not do so, for well I know your proffers, and more
of your gentleness than for any fear or dread ye have of me. And
therewithal Sir Tristram proffered him his sword and said: Sir Lamorak,
as an overcome knight I yield me unto you as to a man of the most noble
prowess that ever I met withal. Nay, said Sir Lamorak, I will do you
gentleness; I require you let us be sworn together that never none of us
shall after this day have ado with other. And therewithal Sir Tristram
and Sir Lamorak sware that never none of them should fight against
other, nor for weal nor for woe.

CHAPTER XII. How Sir Palomides followed the Questing Beast, and smote
down Sir Tristram and Sir Lamorak with one spear.

AND this meanwhile there came Sir Palomides, the good knight, following
the Questing Beast that had in shape a head like a serpent's head, and a
body like a leopard, buttocks like a lion, and footed like an hart; and
in his body there was such a noise as it had been the noise of thirty
couple of hounds questing, and such a noise that beast made wheresomever
he went; and this beast ever more Sir Palomides followed, for it was
called his quest. And right so as he followed this beast it came by Sir
Tristram, and soon after came Palomides. And to brief this matter he
smote down Sir Tristram and Sir Lamorak both with one spear; and so he
departed after the beast Galtisant, that was called the Questing Beast;
wherefore these two knights were passing wroth that Sir Palomides would
not fight on foot with them. Here men may understand that be of worship,
that he was never formed that all times might stand, but sometime he was
put to the worse by mal-fortune; and at sometime the worse knight put
the better knight to a rebuke.

Then Sir Tristram and Sir Lamorak gat Sir Kehydius upon a shield betwi