d the castle where Morgan le Fay was, and ever Sir
Gawaine deemed well that he was Sir Tristram de Liones, because he heard
that two knights had slain and beaten thirty knights. And when they came
afore the castle Sir Gawaine spake on high and said: Queen Morgan
le Fay, send out your knights that ye have laid in a watch for Sir
Launcelot and for Sir Tristram. Now, said Sir Gawaine, I know your false
treason, and through all places where that I ride men shall know of your
false treason; and now let see, said Sir Gawaine, whether ye dare come
out of your castle, ye thirty knights. Then the queen spake and all the
thirty knights at once, and said: Sir Gawaine, full well wottest thou
what thou dost and sayest; for by God we know thee passing well, but
all that thou speakest and dost, thou sayest it upon pride of that good
knight that is there with thee. For there be some of us that know full
well the hands of that knight over all well. And wit thou well, Sir
Gawaine, it is more for his sake than for thine that we will not come
out of this castle. For wit ye well, Sir Gawaine, the knight that
beareth the arms of Cornwall, we know him and what he is.

Then Sir Gawaine and Sir Tristram departed and rode on their ways a day
or two together; and there by adventure, they met with Sir Kay and Sir
Sagramore le Desirous. And then they were glad of Sir Gawaine, and he of
them, but they wist not what he was with the shield of Cornwall, but by
deeming. And thus they rode together a day or two. And then they were
ware of Sir Breuse Saunce Pite chasing a lady for to have slain her, for
he had slain her paramour afore. Hold you all still, said Sir Gawaine,
and show none of you forth, and ye shall see me reward yonder false
knight; for an he espy you he is so well horsed that he will escape
away. And then Sir Gawaine rode betwixt Sir Breuse and the lady, and
said: False knight, leave her, and have ado with me. When Sir Breuse saw
no more but Sir Gawaine he feutred his spear, and Sir Gawaine against
him; and there Sir Breuse overthrew Sir Gawaine, and then he rode over
him, and overthwart him twenty times to have destroyed him; and when Sir
Tristram saw him do so villainous a deed, he hurled out against him.
And when Sir Breuse saw him with the shield of Cornwall he knew him well
that it was Sir Tristram, and then he fled, and Sir Tristram followed
after him; and Sir Breuse Saunce Pite was so horsed that he went his way
quite, and Sir Tristr