l, sir
knight, it was I, and my name is Bleoberis de Ganis. Well art thou met,
said Palomides, and wit thou well my name is Palomides the Saracen; and
either of them hated other to the death. Sir Palomides, said Ector, wit
thou well there is neither thou nor none knight that beareth the life
that slayeth any of our blood but he shall die for it; therefore an thou
list to fight go seek Sir Launcelot or Sir Tristram, and there shall ye
find your match. With them have I met, said Palomides, but I had never
no worship of them. Was there never no manner of knight, said Sir Ector,
but they that ever matched with you? Yes, said Palomides, there was the
third, a good knight as any of them, and of his age he was the best that
ever I found; for an he might have lived till he had been an hardier man
there liveth no knight now such, and his name was Sir Lamorak de Galis.
And as he had jousted at a tournament there he overthrew me and thirty
knights more, and there he won the degree. And at his departing there
met him Sir Gawaine and his brethren, and with great pain they slew him
feloniously, unto all good knights' great damage. Anon as Sir Percivale
heard that his brother was dead, Sir Lamorak, he fell over his horse's
mane swooning, and there he made the greatest dole that ever made
knight. And when Sir Percivale arose he said: Alas, my good and noble
brother Sir Lamorak, now shall we never meet, and I trow in all the wide
world a man may not find such a knight as he was of his age; and it is
too much to suffer the death of our father King Pellinore, and now the
death of our good brother Sir Lamorak.

Then in the meanwhile there came a varlet from the court of King Arthur,
and told them of the great tournament that should be at Lonazep, and how
these lands, Cornwall and Northgalis, should be against all them that
would come.

CHAPTER LV. How Sir Tristram met with Sir Dinadan, and of their devices,
and what he said to Sir Gawaine's brethren.

NOW turn we unto Sir Tristram, that as he rode a-hunting he met with Sir
Dinadan, that was come into that country to seek Sir Tristram. Then Sir
Dinadan told Sir Tristram his name, but Sir Tristram would not tell him
his name, wherefore Sir Dinadan was wroth. For such a foolish knight as
ye are, said Sir Dinadan, I saw but late this day lying by a well, and
he fared as he slept; and there he lay like a fool grinning, and would
not speak, and his shield lay by him, and his horse stood