a well, and there he found a knight bounden
till a tree crying as he had been wood, and his horse and his harness
standing by him. And when he espied that squire, therewith he abraid
and brake himself loose, and took his sword in his hand, and ran to have
slain the squire. Then he took his horse and fled all that ever he might
unto Dame Bragwaine, and told her of his adventure. Then she rode unto
Sir Tristram's pavilion, and told Sir Tristram what adventure she had
found in the forest. Alas, said Sir Tristram, upon my head there is some
good knight at mischief.

Then Sir Tristram took his horse and his sword and rode thither, and
there he heard how the knight complained unto himself and said: I,
woful knight Sir Palomides, what misadventure befalleth me, that thus
am defoiled with falsehood and treason, through Sir Bors and Sir Ector.
Alas, he said, why live I so long! And then he gat his sword in his
hands, and made many strange signs and tokens; and so through his raging
he threw his sword into that fountain. Then Sir Palomides wailed and
wrang his hands. And at the last for pure sorrow he ran into that
fountain, over his belly, and sought after his sword. Then Sir Tristram
saw that, and ran upon Sir Palomides, and held him in his arms fast.
What art thou, said Palomides, that holdeth me so? I am a man of this
forest that would thee none harm. Alas, said Sir Palomides, I may never
win worship where Sir Tristram is; for ever where he is an I be there,
then get I no worship; and if he be away for the most part I have
the gree, unless that Sir Launcelot be there or Sir Lamorak. Then Sir
Palomides said: Once in Ireland Sir Tristram put me to the worse, and
another time in Cornwall, and in other places in this land. What would
ye do, said Sir Tristram, an ye had Sir Tristram? I would fight with
him, said Sir Palomides, and ease my heart upon him; and yet, to say
thee sooth, Sir Tristram is the gentlest knight in this world living.
What will ye do, said Sir Tristram, will ye go with me to your lodging?
Nay, said he, I will go to the King with the Hundred Knights, for he
rescued me from Sir Bors de Ganis and Sir Ector and else had I been
slain traitorly. Sir Tristram said him such kind words that Sir
Palomides went with him to his lodging. Then Gouvernail went to-fore,
and charged Dame Bragwaine to go out of the way to her lodging And bid
ye Sir Persides that he make him no quarrels. And so they rode together
till they came