the woe with you as we have taken the weal. And
therefore, they said all (there were many good knights), look ye take no
discomfort, for there nis no bands of knights under heaven but we shall
be able to grieve them as much as they may us. And therefore discomfort
not yourself by no manner, and we shall gather together that we love,
and that loveth us, and what that ye will have done shall be done. And
therefore, Sir Launcelot, said they, we will take the woe with the weal.
Grant mercy, said Sir Launcelot, of your good comfort, for in my great
distress, my fair nephew, ye comfort me greatly, and much I am beholding
unto you. But this, my fair nephew, I would that ye did in all haste
that ye may, or it be forth days, that ye will look in their lodging
that be lodged here nigh about the king, which will hold with me, and
which will not, for now I would know which were my friends from my foes.
Sir, said Sir Bors, I shall do my pain, and or it be seven of the clock
I shall wit of such as ye have said before, who will hold with you.

Then Sir Bors called unto him Sir Lionel, Sir Ector de Maris, Sir
Blamore de Ganis, Sir Bleoberis de Ganis, Sir Gahalantine, Sir
Galihodin, Sir Galihud, Sir Menadeuke Sir Villiers the Valiant, Sir
Hebes le Renoumes, Sir Lavaine Sir Urre of Hungary, Sir Nerounes, Sir
Plenorius. These two knights Sir Launcelot made, and the one he won upon
a bridge, and therefore they would never be against him. And Harry le
Fise du Lake, and Sir Selises of the Dolorous Tower, and Sir Melias
de Lile, and Sir Bellangere le Beuse, that was Sir Alisander's son Le
Orphelin, because his mother Alice le Beale Pellerin and she was kin
unto Sir Launcelot, and he held with him. So there came Sir Palomides
and Sir Safere, his brother, to hold with Sir Launcelot, and Sir
Clegis of Sadok, and Sir Dinas, Sir Clarius of Cleremont. So these
two-and-twenty knights drew them together, and by then they were armed
on horseback, and promised Sir Launcelot to do what he would. Then there
fell to them, what of North Wales and of Cornwall, for Sir Lamorak's
sake and for Sir Tristram's sake, to the number of a fourscore knights.

My lords, said Sir Launcelot, wit you well, I have been ever since I
came into this country well willed unto my lord, King Arthur, and unto
my lady, Queen Guenever, unto my power; and this night because my
lady the queen sent for me to speak with her, I suppose it was made by
treason, howbeit I dare largely exc