Kabanata Kabanata 238 · How Sir Tristram at a tournament bare the shield that

. How Sir Tristram at a tournament bare the shield that

Morgan le Fay delivered to him.

Then the King of Scots and the King of Ireland held against King

Arthur’s knights, and there began a great medley. So came in Sir

Tristram and did marvellous deeds of arms, for there he smote down many

knights. And ever he was afore King Arthur with that shield. And when

King Arthur saw that shield he marvelled greatly in what intent it was

made; but Queen Guenever deemed as it was, wherefore she was heavy.

Then was there a damosel of Queen Morgan in a chamber by King Arthur,

and when she heard King Arthur speak of that shield, then she spake

openly unto King Arthur. Sir King, wit ye well this shield was ordained

for you, to warn you of your shame and dishonour, and that longeth to

you and your queen. And then anon that damosel picked her away privily,

that no man wist where she was become. Then was King Arthur sad and

wroth, and asked from whence came that damosel. There was not one that

knew her nor wist where she was become. Then Queen Guenever called to

her Sir Ector de Maris, and there she made her complaint to him, and

said: I wot well this shield was made by Morgan le Fay in despite of me

and of Sir Launcelot, wherefore I dread me sore lest I should be

destroyed. And ever the king beheld Sir Tristram, that did so

marvellous deeds of arms that he wondered sore what knight he might be,

and well he wist it was not Sir Launcelot. And it was told him that Sir

Tristram was in Petit Britain with Isoud la Blanche Mains, for he

deemed, an he had been in the realm of Logris, Sir Launcelot or some of

his fellows that were in the quest of Sir Tristram that they should

have found him or that time. So King Arthur had marvel what knight he

might be. And ever Sir Arthur’s eye was on that shield. All that espied

the queen, and that made her sore afeard.

Then ever Sir Tristram smote down knights wonderly to behold, what upon

the right hand and upon the left hand, that unnethe no knight might

withstand him. And the King of Scots and the King of Ireland began to

withdraw them. When Arthur espied that, he thought that that knight

with the strange shield should not escape him. Then he called unto him

Sir Uwaine le Blanche Mains, and bade him arm him and make him ready.

So anon King Arthur and Sir Uwaine dressed them before Sir Tristram,

and required him to tell them where he had that shield. Sir, he said, I

had it of Queen Morgan le Fay, sister unto King Arthur.

So here endeth this history of this book, for it is the first book of

Sir Tristram de Liones and the second book of Sir Tristram followeth.

GLOSSARY

Abashed, abased, lowered,

Abate, depress, calm,

Abought, paid for,

Abraid, started,

Accompted, counted,

Accorded, agreed,

Accordment, agreement,

Acquit, repay,

Actually, actively,

Adoubted, afraid,

Advision, vision,

Afeard, afraid,

Afterdeal, disadvantage,

Againsay, retract,

Aknown, known,

Aligement, alleviation,

Allegeance, alleviation,

Allow, approve,

Almeries, chests,

Alther, gen. pl., of all,

Amounted, mounted,

Anealed, anointed,

Anguishly, in pain,

Anon, at once,

Apair, weaken,

Apparelled, fitted up,

Appeach, impeach,

Appealed, challenged, accused,

Appertices, displays,

Araged, enraged, ; confused,

Araised, raised,

Arase, obliterate,

Areared, reared,

Armyvestal, martial,

Array, plight, state of affairs,

Arrayed, situated,

Arson, saddle-bow,

Askance, casually,

Assoiled, absolved,

Assotted, infatuated,

Assummon, summon,

Astonied, amazed, stunned,

At, of, by,

At-after, after,

Attaint, overcome,

Aumbries, chests,

Avail (at), at an advantage,

Avaled, lowered,

Avaunt, boast,

Aventred, couched,

Avised, be advised, take thought,

Avision, vision,

Avoid, quit,

Avoided, got clear off,

Avow, vow,

Await of (in), in watch for,

Awayward, away,

Awke, sideways,

Bachelors, probationers for knighthood

Bain, bath,

Barbican, gate-tower,

Barget, little ship,

Battle, division of an army,

Bawdy, dirty,

Beams, trumpets,

Be-closed, enclosed,

Become, pp., befallen, gone to,

Bedashed, splashed,

Behests, promises,

Behight, promised,

Beholden (beholding) to, obliged to,

Behote, promised,

Benome, deprived, taken away,

Besants, gold coins,

Beseek, beseech,

Beseen, appointed, arrayed,

Beskift, shove off,

Bested, beset,

Betaken, entrusted,

Betaught, entrusted, recommended,

Betid, happened,

Betook, committed, entrusted,

Bevered, quivered,

Board, sb., deck,

Bobaunce, boasting, pride,

Boishe, bush, branch of a tree,

Boistous, rough,

Bole, trunk of a tree,

Boot, remedy,

Borrow out, redeem,

Borrows, pledges,

Bote, remedy,

Bound, ready,

Bourded, jested,

Bourder, jester,

Braced, embraced,

Brachet, little hound,

Braide, quick movement,

Brast, burst, break,

Breaths, breathing holes,

Brief, shorten,

Brim, fierce, furious,

Brised, broke,

Broached, pierced,

Broaches, spits,

Bur, hand-guard of a spear,

Burble, bubble,

Burbling, bubbling,

Burgenetts, buds, blossoms,

Bushment, ambush,

By and by, immediately,

Bywaryed, expended, bestowed,

Canel bone, collar bone,

Cankered, inveterate,

Cantel, slice, strip,

Careful, sorrowful, full of troubles,

Cast (of bread), loaves baked at the same time,

Cast, ref: v., propose,

Cedle, schedule, note,

Cere, wax over, embalm,; cerel,

Certes, certainly,

Chafe, heat, decompose,; chafed, heated,

Chaflet, platform, scaffold,

Champaign, open country,

Chariot (Fr charette), cart,

Cheer, countenance, entertainment,

Chierte, dearness,

Chrism, anointing oil,

Clatter, talk confusedly,

Cleight, clutched,

Cleped, called,

Clipping, embracing,

Cog, small boat,

Cognisance, badge, mark of distinction,

Coif, head-piece,

Comfort, strengthen, help,

Cominal, common,

Complished, complete,

Con, know, be able, ; con thanlt, be grateful,

Conserve, preserve,

Conversant, abiding in,

Cording, agreement,

Coronal, circlet,

Cost, side,

Costed, kept up with,

Couched, lay,

Courage, encourage,

Courtelage, courtyard,

Covert, sheltered,

Covetise, covetousness,

Covin, deceit,

Cream, oil,

Credence, faith,

Croup, crupper,

Curteist, most courteous,

Daffish, foolish,

Danger (in), under obligation to, in the power of,

Dawed, v tr., revived, intr. dawned,

Deadly, mortal, human,

Deal, part, portion,

Debate, quarrel, strife,

Debonair, courteous,

Deceivable, deceitful,

Defaded, faded,

Default, fault,

Defend, forbid,; defended,; forbidden,

Defoiled, trodden down, fouled, deflowered,

Degree (win the), rank, superiority,

Delibered, determined,

Deliverly, adroitly,

Departed, divided,

Departition, departure,

Dere, harm,

Descrive, describe,

Despoiled, stripped,

Detrenched, cut to pieces,

Devised, looked carefully at,

Devoir, duty, service,

Did off, doffed,

Dight, prepared,

Dindled, trembled,

Disadventure, misfortune,

Discover, reveal,

Disherited, disinherited,

Disparpled, scattered,

Dispenses, expenses,

Disperplyd, scattered,

Dispoiled, stripped,

Distained, sullied, dishonoured,

Disworship, shame,

Dole, gift of alms,

Dole, sorrow,

Domineth, dominates, rules,

Don, gift,

Doted, foolish,

Doubted, redoubtable,

Draughts, privities, secret interviews, recesses,

Drenched, drowned,

Dress, make ready,

Dressed up, raised,

Dretched, troubled in sleep,

Dretching, being troubled in sleep,

Dromounds, war vessels,

Dure, endure, last,; dured,; during,

Duresse, bondage, hardship,

Dwined, dwindled,

Eased, entertained,

Eft, after, again,

Eftures, passages,

Embattled, ranged for battle,

Embushed, concealed in the woods,

Eme, uncle,

Empoison, poison,

Emprised, undertook,

Enbraid,

Enchafe, heat,; enchafed, heated,

Enchieve, achieve,

Endlong, alongside of,

Enewed, painted,

Enforce, constrain,

Engine, device,

Enow, enough,

Enquest, enterprise,

Ensured, assured,

Entermete, intermeddle,

Errant, wandering,

Estates, ranks,

Even hand, at an equality,

Evenlong, along,

Everych, each, every one,

Faiter, vagabond,

Fare, sb., ado, commotion,

Faren, pp., treated,

Faute, lack,; fauted, lacked,

Fealty, oath of fidelity,

Fear, frighten,

Feute, trace, track,

Feuter, set in rest, couch,

Feutred, set in socket,

Fiaunce, affiance, promise,

Flang, flung,; rushed,

Flatling, prostrate,

Fleet, float,

Flemed, put to flight,

Flittered, fluttered,

Foiled, defeated, shamed,

Foined, thrust,

Foining, thrusting,

Foins, thrusts,

Foot-hot, hastily,

For-bled, spent with bleeding,

Force (no), no concern,

Fordeal, advantage,

Fordo, destroy,; fordid,

Forecast, preconcerted plot,

For-fared, worsted,

Forfend, forbid,

Forfoughten, weary with fighting,

Forhewn, hewn to pieces,

Forjousted, tired with jousting,

Forthinketh, repents,

Fortuned, happened,

Forward, vanguard,

Forwowmded, sorely wounded,

Free, noble,

Freshed,

Froward, away from,

Gad, wedge or spike of iron,

Gainest, readiest,

Gar, cause,

Gart, compelled,

Gentily, like a gentleman,

Gerfalcon, a fine hawk,

Germane, closely allied,

Gest, deed, story,

Gisarm, halberd, battle-axe,

Glaive, sword,

Glasting, barking,

Glatisant, barking, yelping,

Gobbets, lumps,

Graithed, made ready,

Gree, degree, superiority,

Greed, pp., pleased, content,

Grescs, steps,

Grimly, ugly,

Grovelling, on his face,

Guerdonless, without reward,

Guise, fashion,

Habergeon, hauberk with leggings attached,

Hair, a hair-shirt,

Hale and how, a sailor’s cry,

Halp, helped,

Halsed, embraced,

Halsing, embracing,

Handfast, betrothed,

Handsel, earnest-money,

Hangers, testicles,

Harbingers, messengers sent to prepare lodgings,

Harness, armour,

Hart of greese, fat deer,

Hauberk, coat of mail,

Haut, high, noble,

Hauteyn, haughty,

Heavy, sad,

Hete, command,

Hide, skin,

Hied, hurried,

High (on), aloud,

Higher hand, the uppermost,

Hight, called,

Hilled, covered, concealed,

Holden, held,

Holp, helped,

Holts, woods,

Hough-bone, back part of kneejoint,

Houselled, to be given the Eucharist,

Hoved, hovered, waited about,

Hurled, dashed, staggered,; hurling,

Hurtle, dash,

Incontinent, forthwith,

Ind, dark blue,

Infellowship, join in fellowship,

In like, alike,

Intermit, interpose,

Japer, jester,

Japes, jests,

Jesseraunt, a short cuirass,

Keep, sb., care,

Keep, s., care, reck,

Kemps, champions,

Kind, nature,

Kindly, natural,

Knights parters, marshals,

Know, acknowledge,

Knowledging, acknowledgment, confession,

Lain, conceal,

Langering, sauntering,

Lapped, took in her lap,

Large, generous,

Largeness, liberality,

Laton, latten, brass,

Laund, waste plain,

Layne, conceal,

Lazar-cot, leper-house,

Learn, teach,

Lears, cheeks,

Leaved, leafy,

Lecher, fornicator,

Leech, physician,

Leman, lover,

Let, caused to,

Let, hinder,

Lewdest, most ignorant,

Licours lecherous,

Lief, dear,

Liefer, more gladly,

Lieve, believe,

Limb-meal, limb from limb,

List, desire, pleasure,

Lithe, joint,

Longing unto, belonging to,

Long on (upon), because of,

Loos, praise,

Lotless, without a share,

Loveday, day for. settling disputes,

Loving, praising,

Lunes, leashes, strings,

Lusk, lubber,

Lusts, inclinations,

Maims, wounds,

Makeless, matchless,

Makers, authors, poets,

Mas,ease, discomfort,

Mal engine, evil design,

Mal-fortune, ill-luck, mishap,

Marches, borders,

Mass-penny, offering at mass for the dead,

Matche old, machicolated, with holes for defence,

Maugre, sb., despite,

Measle, disease,

Medled, mingled,

Medley, melee, general encounter,

Meiny, retinue,

Mickle, much,

Minever, ermine,

Mischieved, hurt,

Mischievous, painful,

Miscorr fort, discomfort,

Miscreature, unbeliever,

Missay, revile,; missaid,

Mo, more,

More and less, rich and poor,

Motes, notes on a horn,

Mount~ lance, amount of, extent,

Much, great,

Naked, unarmed,

Namely, especially,

Ne, nor,

Near-hand, nearly,; near,

Needly, needs, on your own compulsion,

Nesh, soft, tender,

Nigh-hand, nearly,

Nill, will not,

Nilt, will not,

Nis, ne is, is not,

Nist, ne wist, knew not,

Noblesse, nobleness,

Nobley, nobility, splendour,

Noised, reported,

Nold, would not,

Noseling, on his nose,

Not for then, nevertheless,

Notoyrly, notoriously,

Noyous, hurtful,

Obeissance, obedience,

Or, before,

Orgule, haughtiness,

Orgulist, haughtiest,

Orgulite, pride, arrogance,

Orgulous, proud,

Other, or,

Ouches, jewels,

Ought, owned,

Outcept, except,

Outher, or,

Out-taken, except,

Over-evening, last night,

Overget, overtake,

Overhylled, covered,

Over-led, domineered over,

Overlong, the length of,

Overslip, pass,

Overthwart, adj., cross,

Overthwart, sb., mischance,

Overthwart and endlong, by the breadth and length,

Painture, painting,

Paitrelles, breastplate of a horse,

Paltocks, short coats,

Parage, descent,

Pareil, like,

Passing, surpassingly,

Paynim, pagan,

Pensel, pennon,

Perclos, partition,

Perdy, par Dieu,

Perigot, falcon,

Perish, destroy,

Peron, tombstone,

Pight, pitched,

Pike, steal away,

Piked, stole,

Pillers, plunderers,

Pilling, plundering,

Pleasaunce, pleasure,

Plenour, complete,

Plump, sb., cluster,

Pointling, aiming,

Pont, bridge,

Port, gate,

Posseded, possessed,

Potestate, governor,

Precessours, predecessors,

Press, throng,

Pretendeth, belongs to,

Pricker, hard rider,

Pricking, spurring,

Prime, A.M.,

Prise, capture,

Puissance, power,

Purfle, trimming,

Purfled, embroidered,

Purvey, provide,

Quarrels, arrowheads,

Questing, barking,

Quick, alive,

Quit, repaid,; acquitted, behaved,

Raced (rased), tore,

Rack (of bulls), herd,

Raines, a town in Brittany famous for its cloth,

Ramping, raging,

Range, rank, station,

Ransacked, searched,

Rashed, fell headlong,

Rashing, rushing,

Rasing, rushing,

Rasure,

Raundon, impetuosity,

Rear, raise,

Rechate, note of recall,

Recomforted, comforted, cheered,

Recounter, rencontre, encounter,

Recover, rescue,

Rede, advise, ; sb., counsel,

Redounded, glanced back,

Religion, religious order,

Reneye, deny,

Report, refer,

Resemblaunt; semblance,

Retrayed, drew back,

Rightwise, rightly,

Rivage, shore,

Romed, roared,

Roted, practised,

Rove, cleft,

Rownsepyk, a branch,

Sacring, consecrating,

Sad, serious,

Sadly, heartily, earnestly,

Salle, room,

Samite, silk stuff with gold or silver

threads,

Sangreal, Holy Grail,

Sarps, girdles,

Saw, proverb,

Scathes, harms, hurts,

icripture, writing,

Search, probe wounds,

Selar, canopy,

Semblable, like,

Semblant, semblance,

Sendal, fine cloth,

Sennight, week,

Servage, slavery,

Sewer, officer who set on dishes and tasted them,

Shaft-mon, handbreadth,

Shaw, thicket,

Sheef, thrust,

Sheer-Thursday, Thursday in Holy Week,

Shend, harm,

Shenship, disgrace,

Shent, undone, blamed,

Shour, attack,

Shrew, rascal,

Shrewd, knavish,

Sib, akin to,

Sideling, sideways,

Siege, seat,

Signified, likened,

Siker, sure,

Sikerness, assurance,

Sith, since,

Sithen, afterwards, since,

Skift, changed,

Slade, valley,

Slake, glen,

Soil (to go to), hunting term for taking the water,

Sonds, messages,

Sort, company,

Sperd, bolted,

Spere, ask, inquire,

Spered, asked,

Sperhawk, sparrowhawk,

Sprent, sprinkled,

Stale, station,

Stark, thoroughly,

Stead, place,

Stert, started, rose quickly,

Steven, appointment,; steven ser. appointment made,

Steven, voice,

Stigh, path,

Stilly, silently,

Stint, fixed revenue,

Stonied, astonished,; became confused,

Stour, battle,

Strain, race, descent,

Strait, narrow,

Straked, blew a horn,

Sue, pursue,

Sued, pursued,

Surcingles, saddle girths,

Swang, swung,

Sweven, dream,

Swough, sound of wind,

Talent, desire,

Tallages, taxes,

Tallies, taxes,

Tamed, crushed,

Tatches, qualities,

Tene, sorrow,

Term, period of time,

Thilk, that same,

Tho, then,

Thrang, pushed,

Thrulled, pushed,

Till, to,

To-brast, burst,

To-fore, before,

To-morn, to-morrow,

Took, gave,

To-rove, broke up,

To-shivered, broken to pieces,

Traced, advanced and retreated,

Trains, devices, wiles,

Trasing, pressing forward,

Travers (met at), came across,

Traverse, slantwise,

Traversed, moved sideways,

Tray, grief,

Treatise, treaty,

Tree, timber,

Trenchant, cutting, sharp,

Tres:, hunting term,

Truage, tribute,

Trussed, packed,

Ubblie, wafer, Host,

Umbecast, cast about,

Umberere, the part of the helmet which shaded the eyes,

Umbre, shade,

Unavised, thoughtlessly,

Uncouth, strange,

Underne, - A.M.,

Ungoodly, rudely,

Unhappy, unlucky,

Unhilled, uncovered,

Unr the, scarcely,

Unsicker, unstable,

Unwimpled, uncovered,

Unwrast, untwisted, unbound,

Upright, flat on the back,

Up-so-down, upside down,

Ure, usage,

Utas, octave of a festival,

Utterance, uttermost,

Varlet, servant,

Venery, hunting,

Ven ails, breathing holes,

Villain, man of low birth,

Visors, the perforated parts of helmets,

Voided, slipped away from,

Wagging, shaking,

Waited, watched,

Waits, watches,

Wallop, gallop,

Wanhope, despair,

Wap, ripple,

Ware, aware,

Warison, reward,

Warn, forbid, refuse,

Weeds, garments,

Weltered, rolled about,

Wend, thought,

Wer-wolf, a man turned into a wolf by magic,

Where, whereas,

Wide-where, over wide space,

Wield, possess, have power over,

Wield himself, come to himself,

Wight, brave, strong,

Wightly, swiftly,

Wildsome, desolate,

Wimpled, with the head covered,

Win, make way,

Wite, v., blame,

Within-forth, on the inside,

Without-forth, on the outside,

Wittiest, cleverest,

Wittily, cleverly,

Witting, knowledge,

Wold or nold, would or would not,

Wonder, adj., wondrous,

Wonder, adv., wondrously,

Wonderly, wonderfully,

Wood, mad,

Woodness, madness,

Wood shaw, thicket of the wood,

Worship, honour,

Worshipped, cause to be honoured,

Worts, roots,

Wot, know,

Wrack, destruction,

Wroken, wreaked,

Wrothe, twisted,

Yede, ran,

Yelden, yielded,

Yerde, stick, stem,

Yode, went,

Yolden, yielded,

Y-wis, certainly,

Le Morte D’Arthur

King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table

by Thomas Malory

IN TWO VOLS.—VOL. II

Contents

BOOK X.