d lived there in great joy.

CHAPTER XL. How Sir Galahalt did do cry a jousts in Surluse, and Queen
Guenever's knights should joust against all that would come.

BUT as the book saith, King Mark would never stint till he had slain him
by treason. And by Alice he gat a child that hight Bellengerus le Beuse.
And by good fortune he came to the court of King Arthur, and proved a
passing good knight; and he revenged his father's death, for the false
King Mark slew both Sir Tristram and Alisander falsely and feloniously.
And it happed so that Alisander had never grace nor fortune to come to
King Arthur's court. For an he had come to Sir Launcelot, all knights
said that knew him, he was one of the strongest knights that was in
Arthur's days, and great dole was made for him. So let we of him pass,
and turn we to another tale.

So it befell that Sir Galahalt, the haut prince, was lord of the country
of Surluse, whereof came many good knights. And this noble prince was a
passing good man of arms, and ever he held a noble fellowship together.
And then he came to Arthur's court and told him his intent, how this was
his will, how he would let cry a jousts in the country of Surluse, the
which country was within the lands of King Arthur, and there he asked
leave to let cry a jousts. I will give you leave, said King Arthur; but
wit thou well, said King Arthur, I may not be there. Sir, said Queen
Guenever, please it you to give me leave to be at that jousts. With
right good will, said Arthur; for Sir Galahalt, the haut prince, shall
have you in governance. Sir, said Galahalt, I will as ye will. Sir,
then the queen, I will take with me [Sir Launcelot] and such knights as
please me best. Do as ye list, said King Arthur. So anon she commanded
Sir Launcelot to make him ready with such knights as he thought best.

So in every good town and castle of this land was made a cry, that in
the country of Surluse Sir Galahalt should make a joust that should last
eight days, and how the haut prince, with the help of Queen Guenever's
knights, should joust against all manner of men that would come. When
this cry was known, kings and princes, dukes and earls, barons and
noble knights, made them ready to be at that jousts. And at the day of
jousting there came in Sir Dinadan disguised, and did many great deeds
of arms.

CHAPTER XLI. How Sir Launcelot fought in the tournament, and how Sir
Palomides did arms there for a damosel.

THEN at