tooke Albert of Champaigne aside and said to him Thou knowest how thou hast sworne and promised to tell me what thou hast found by thy skil Sir answered Albert let then the rest be called into your presence for before them will I tell ye Well hast thou aduised said the King wherupon they were sent for afterward Alberte thus began My opinion is my Lord that the closed Chamber and him whome you sawe enter by the secret doore signifieth this Realme which is close and well garded notwithstanding by some right therto some one shall come to take it from you And like as he thrust his handes into your sides renting from thence your hart and afterwarde threwe it into the Riuer euen so shall your Townes and Castles bothe more and lesse be priuily stolen from you and put into his hand from whome you shall not easilye recouer them And what meaneth the other hart said the King which I dreamed should remain with me and yet he saide that some after I should loose it against the will of him that tooke the first from me It seemeth by this answered Albert that some other shall inuade your Country as the first did yet constrained more by force of an other that commaunded him to doo so then by any will therto in him selfe thus sée ye my Lord all that I can tell ye Now saide the King to the second named Antalles tell vs your aduise Me thinkes Sir quoth he that Albert hath very well saide and I am of his opinion except in this for ought I can learne as the cause sheweth me y t what he saith shall happen is already effected and by the person that most loueth ye notwithstanding I am greatly amazed therat séeing there is not as yet any parte of your Realme lost and if you doo loose any thing héerafter it must be by such an one as loueth ye déerely When the King heard this he nodded his head for it séemed to him that he came néere the marke but Vngan the Piccard who knew much more then the other fell into a laughter which he was sildome wunt to doo because he was a man very sad and mellancholly yet by chaunce the King perceiued it wherfore he saide Maister Vngan my fréend now remaineth none but you say boldely what you haue gathered My Lord quoth he peraduenture I haue seene into thinges which is not necessarye to be knowen to any other then your selfe and therfore let these giue place a while if you please At these woordes they withdrewe them selues leauing the King and Vngan alone who thus spake If your Maiesty sawe me ere while to laughe it was at one woord which little you thinke on yet it is true and will yee knowe what It was that which Antalles saide that what he found by your dreame was already happened and by the person that besâ—e loueth yee Nowe shall I reuâ—ale what you keepe in secret and thinke that no one knowes but your selfe You loue my Lord in such a place where you haue alreadye accomplished your will and she whom you loue is surpassing faire then tolde he all the gests and fashions of her as if she had béene there present But as for the Chamber you found shut you know Sir full well what if meaneth and how she whom you loue desirous to deliuer her hart and yours from gréefe and sadnes came to ye entring your chamber by the doore that was hid from you The handes that opened your sides is the coniunction of you twaine then the hart taken from ye sheweth that she hath by you a Sonne or a Daughter Now tell me saide the King what meneth y t casting therof into the Riuer My Lord quoth he that nothing concerneth you therfore neuer labour for further knowledge therof Yet would I saide the King faine vnderstand it and therfore feare not to tell me for any harme that may happen Seeing you will needes haue it answered Vngan I beseeche ye Sir assure me while you liue for any thing that I shall reueale you will not be displeased with her who loueth you so loyallye That promise doo I faithfully make thée saide the King In good sooth Sir quoth Vngan that hart that you saw throwen into the water is the first infant she shall haue by you who must of necessitie be forsaken And the other saide the King that shall remaine with me what meaneth that You may answered Vngan vnderstand by the one the desseigne of the other which is that she shall conceiue an other childe who shalbe caryed awaye againste the will of her that caused the losse of the firste Thou hast tolde me strange thinges said the King and would God the mis-fortune of my Children were not so true as what thou hast tolde me concerning the Lady I loue For thinges ordeyned and appointed by the highest answered Vngan none knoweth how to gain-say or remedy and therfore men of wisdom should neither be sad or reioyce at them because oftentimes the Lord disposeth matters beyond the capacitie of men and farre otherwise then they expect For this cause my Lord forgetting all that I haue said and which you haue béene so curious to vnderdstand referre all thinges to God desiring him in these your affaires and all other to limit the ende of them to his honor and glory and thus in mine opinion you ought to set downe your rest The King was highly contented with Vngan and so estéemed of him that from thence forward he had him néere his person by meanes wherof he receiued many great fauours Now it happened that at that instant as the King parted from the Philosophers a Damosell presented her selfe before him right costlye in garmentes and faire of beauty thus speaking Vnderstand King Perion that when thou recouerest thy losse the Kingdome of Ireland shall loose her flower So giuing her Palfray the bridle and the King not able to stay her she rode away these woordes made the good Prince more sad and pensiue then he was before For this time the Author leaueth this purpose and returneth to speake of the infant that Gandales caused to be nourished whome he made be called the Gentleman of the Sea Now was he curiously entertained wherfore in short time he grew and became so faire that all which beheld him meruailed therat but one daye among other it happened that Gandales rode to sporte him selfe in the féeldes arming him selfe as became a good Knight for he had dayly accompanied the King Languines at such time as he searched after aduentures and albeit the King discontinued Armes yet Gandales would oftentimes exercise him selfe and as he rode he met with a Damosell that thus spake to him Ah Gandales if many great personages were aduertised of what I knowe certainely I assure thee they would cause thée to loose thy head Wherfore quoth he Because saide the Damosell thou nourishest their death in thy house The knight know not the Woman that thus talked with him but
as she came to the prince at what time he was sporting with Oriana and the other Ladyes while the Queene slepte At that instant was he in such a sollemne thought of Oriana as not daring to lift vp his eyes to beholde her said within him selfe Ah God why hast thou endued this Lady with such excellent beauty that vnhappy I should suffer so extreame passions by louing her Ah mine eyes too high did ye looke when ye behelde her of whome you are not woorthy but if the woorst happen death shall satisfie this â—imeritie wherto my hart for her is humbled In this thought he was like to fall downe so had he forgotten and ouergone him selfe when a Page came to him saying Gentleman there is a strange Damosell attending without who hath brought ye certaine presents would speak with ye When she who loued him heard this message her hart began to tremble in such sorte as béeing not able to endure this new â—ame she called to the Prince saying I pray ye stay heere and let the Damosell come in that we may haue the sight of what she hath brought which he did and the Damosell being entred thus spake to him My Lord your good fréend Gandales saluteth you as the man whom he only loueth and hath sent ye this King this ware and this Swoord which he desireth ye for his sake to kéepe while you liue The Prince hauing receiued the presents â—aid the King and waâ— aside to beholde the Swoord which being without a sheath was wrapped in a fine linnen cloth wherat he greatly meruayled and while he was musing theron Oriana tooke the ware thinking it to be some other thing and said Beléeue me Gentleman for my parte I would haue this ware You may haue it if you please Madame quoth he but me thinks this faire King were better for ye I will haue nothing but this ware said Oriana and so tooke it During these discourses the King came who saide to the Prince What think ye of that Swoord My Lord quoth he I finde it a very faire one but I meruaile wherfore it hath no scabbard It is saide the King very néere fiftéene yéers since it had one and hauing so saide he laide it aside proceeding thus You would be a Knight and know not whether you ought be one or no therfore it is necessary y t you vnderstand what you are and I to tell you so much as I know Héerupon he declared how he was found in a Chest on the Sea with the Swoord and the King as you haue alreadye heard I beléeue my Lord quoth the Prince that for your pleasure you vse this inuention because the Damosell when she entred saide that my good fréend Gandales sent me these presents but I think she fayled in her woordes and would haue said my Father Gandales Notwithstanding my Lord if it be so as you haue rehearsed I am not displeased therat except in not knowing of whence I am nor they me yet doo I thinke my selfe a Gentleman for my hart perswades me of no lesse Now therfore it is more necessary that I be Knighted then before to the end I may labour to become such a one as may acquire honor and reputation séeing I haue no parents by whom I may be named not knowing what I am When the King heard him speak so vertuouslye he estéemed much better of him then before thinking him selfe that he could not but be a man of calling and hardie As thus they were deuising a Gentleman came to the King and said My Lord King Perion your brother is come to the Court The King very glad therof departed to receiue his Brother and embracing him thus spake I sée my good Brother you meant to take me vnprouided for little did I thinke of your so sudden arriuall in this Country Noble brother answered King Perion I come to request y e ayd of my fréendes because I haue more néede of them at this time then euer I had for Abies King of Ireland threatneth me with strong warre and is with great puissaunce entred my Kingdome so that he and Dagauel his Cozin haue laide very seuere siedge to me And which is woorst of all Fortune hath so hardly dealt with me that certaine whom I trusted haue forsaken me and the greatest part of my other fréends are ouerthrowen in the skirmishes we haue had together so that now I come to requeste your succour in this extreame need Truely Brother answered Languines you may be sure therof and your misâ—fortune gréeueth me not a little but I will prouide therfore so well as I can Agraies who was newly Knighted being hotte and ready to Armes hauing heard the request of his Unckle and the graunt the King his Father had made him of assistaunce came and â—â—ll on his knée before him saying I beséeche ye Father let me obtayne one boone at your handes The King who loued him as him selfe answered Demaund what thou wilt for it shall not be denyed thee I desire your sufferance quoth Agraies that I may goe to Gaule to aide the Quéen mine Aunte In good faith said the King well content am I and in good equipage shalt thou goe and stronglye accompanied When the Gentleman of the Sea heard this determination he was more earnest to compasse his enterprise then before and seeing King Perion was present he could not glut his eyes with beholding him only for the good reporte he had heard of him for he thought not theÌ„ of any affinitie or parentage but would rather be Knighted by his hand then any other in respect of his high and hautie déedes of Armes And to attaine his purpose he thought best to intreat the Quéen hoping that if she would doo so much for him as to mooue the King her brother therin she should not be gain-said for he saw her so sad that he durst not speake to her he boldely went to Oriana and setting his knee to the ground saide I pray ye Madame tell me what causeth the Quéene to be so pensiue Oriana beholding the man before her whom she loued in her very soule albeit neither he or any other knew it was surprized with such vehemencye of loue as she could hardly tell how to dissemble it yet thus she answered Gentleman of the Sea and my fréend I will take paine to know then shall I tell ye with all my hart seeing it is the firste request that euer ye made to me Madame quoth he I know in my selfe so small deseruing toward you that I account myself vnworthy to request any thing of you but I should think I were happy if I had the meane to obey you or that it would please you to commaund me What said she haue you so base a minde such small estimatioÌ„ of your self Madame answered he in what sort soeuer it be I haue no forces at all but such as haue left me in great desire to serue you for my hart is altogether yours
you take the one you must néedes haue the other for they will not be seperated I am the better pleased answered the King then calling Agraies to him saide My Sonne I will that you loue these two Gentlemen as I doo their Father When Gandales saw that the King would haue them away in good earnest with the teares in his eyes he thus spake in his hart My Childe that so soone beginnest to proue Fortune now sée I thee in the seruice of them who one day may happily serue thée if it please God to guide and protect thee as I shall humbly pray for and suffer that the woords of Vrganda the vnknowen spoken to me may proue true making me so happy as to liue to sée the time of those great meruailes promised thée in Armes The King who noted Gandales séeing that his eyes were filled with teares came to comfort him saying Beléeue me I neuer thought you had béene such a foole as to wéepe for a Childe Ah my Lord answered Gandales it may be vpon greater occasion then you think for and if it please ye to know the trueth I will presently tell ye héere before your Quéene So he tolde the whole discourse how he found the Gentleman of the Sea and in what equipage and he had procéeded with that which Vrganda foretolde him but that he remembred the oathe he tooke Now my Lord saide Gandales deale for him as you shall please for so God helpe me according to his beginning I thinke him to be issued of great linage When the King heard this he estéemed much the better of him that he had so carefully nourished the childe he found and thus answered It is great reason seeing God hath doone so much for him as to preserue him from so great a daÌ„ger that now we be diligent in his education and endowe him with habilities when time shall serue In good faith my Lord said the Quéene so please you hee shall be mine during his young yéeres and when he comes to mans estate I will deliuer him to serue you Well Madame quoth the King I giue him you Now early on y e next morning the King would set forward wherfore the Queene not hauing forgot the gift of her Lord tooke with her Gandalin and the young Gentleman of the Sea whom she commaunded to be so carefully attended as her owne Sonne for she tooke such pleasure in beholding him that dayly she would haue him neere her owne person because he had such a chéerefull spirit and so well gouerned withall as he was well liked of euery one so that whatsoeuer he did passed with generall allowance and no other pastime had he but in shooting and cherishing dogges for the chase Now dooth the Authour leaue this matter returning to that which happened to King Perion and his newe freende Elisena King Perion as you haue already heard beeing in Gaule where he vnderstood by his Philosophers the exposition of his Dreame as also what the Damosell had told him That when he recouered his loste the Kingdome of Ireland should lose her flower he became more pensiue then before yet could he vnderstand nothing therof As he thus sadlye spent his dayes it chaunced that an other Damosell entred his Pallace who brought him a letter from Elisena whereby she gaue him to knowe that King Garinter her father was dead and she remained alone and for this cause he should pittie her in that the King of Scottes would take her Kingdome from her For the death of King Garanter was Perion somewhat sorrowful but yet he comforted himself by thinking he should goe to see his freend towards whome he had not diminished one iotte of his affection wherfore he quickly dispatched the Damosell saying to her Returne and say to your mistresse that without staying one whole day I shalbe in short time with her The Damosell wel pleased with this answere returned and after the King had set his affaires in order he parted in good equipage to see his Elisena and iournied so spéedily as he ariued in little Brittayne where he heard newes that King Languines had alreadye gotten all the chéefe of the Country except those Citties which Garinter gaue to Elisena who now abode as he vnderstood at a place named Arcate whether he addressed him selfe If he were there well receiued I leaue to your iudgementes and she likewise of him whom she loued so much After the welcomming and feasting of one an other the King tolde her that he would now marry her and for that cause she aduertised her kinred and Subiectes which she did with all dilligence coulde be deuised as also with so great contentation as her hart might desire for héerin onlye consisted the summe of her affections Which being heard by the King of Scottes and how to accomplishe this King Perion was already ariued with his Sister he sent immediatlye for all the noble men of his Realme to beare him company in dooing honor and welcome to the King his brother At his comming he was graciously receiued by King Perion and after by embracâ—uis they hadsaluted eche other and the nuptialles likewise thorowlye ended the Kinges determined to returne home into their owne Countryes King Perion trauayling toward Gaule with his Quéene Elisena and somewhat weary with tediousnesse of the way he would refresh him selfe along by a Riuer side and while the tentes were erecting he rode softlye alone by the water bancke imagining how hee might knowe the trueth whether Elisena had a Childe according as his Philosopher told him in expounding his Dreame But so long continued he in this thought that riding on without anye regarde he came to an Hermitage which was néere at hand wherfore finding him selfe at a place of deuotion he alighted tying his Horsse to a trée that he might goe in to say his prayers And entring the Church he found there a very auncient religious man who comming to méete him saide Knight is it true that King Perion is maryed to our Kinges daughter Yea verily answered the King Praised be God saide the good Hermite for I knowe certainlye that she loueth him with all her hart How can you tell that replyed the King Euen from her owne mouth saide the good olde man The King then hoping he shoulde heare of him the thing which he moste desired to knowe said I praye ye Father tell me what you haue vnderstood of her and me for I am King Perion Truely Sir answered the wise man héerein should I greatly faulte and iustly might she repute me an heretique if I should manifest what she hath told me vnder confession suffise your selfe with that I haue declared namely the true and sincere loue she beareth you But séeing I haue met ye in a place so conuenient I will that ye knowe what a Damosell in mine opinion very wise saide to me at the time you came firste into this Countrey yet spake she to me so darkelye as I neuer knewe well how to
not onely to maintaine your good King but your owne liberty against a tirant a traitour and what worsse who would buy his vsurping in this Kingdome with the blood of you your wiues and children Sawe you not how he vsed them he tooke in the Tower Beholde you not the end of his purpose which is to ruinate this noble Realme that hath by diuine prouidence beene so long time preserued and euermore continued in reputation floorishing with loyall subiectes to their Prince Heard you not the flattering perswasions which the Rebell vsed before the assaulte thinking to conquer vs by his golden tongue In vaine is his labour I am right well assured that no one of you but wil dye a thousand deathes before he shall conceiue any other minde in you I sée by your resolued countenaunces if I should thinke or say otherwise I were a monstrous offendour for if he haue more men then we we haue more hartes of courage then he which forbiddeth all occasions of dismaying setting before your eyes the famous account you shall liue in héer-after By their lookes you might discearne at their retire how vnwilling they will be to trye you againe and respect not the traiterous woordes of Barsinan our King liueth and will right spéedily come to succour vs. In meane while I intreat as my fréendly companyons let nothing dismay your hope but continue as you gaue begun with this famous resolution that it is more honourable to dye for libertie then to enioy a life by thraldome and slauerie vnder a wicked iniurious and trayterous Prince When the King had ended his oration there was no one in the company how sore hurt soeuer he was but would couragiouslye encounter Barsinans power and bid him brauely good morrow the next day in the Tower where-with the King not a little contented returned to the Queenes lodging his face couered with sweat and his Armour all bloodye by reason of fiue wounds he receiued in fight The Ladies seeing him in such pittious plight were meruaylouslye abashed especiallye the Queene who well-neere dead with greefe and feare together then as a woman in middest of dispaire she saide Alas deere Nephewe what shall we doo we are all but dead Madame answered King Arban all will goe well if God be pleased in vaine doo you thus discomfort your selfe for I hope to heare good tidinges of the King and the traitours that seeke to vsurpe his Kingdome by your good and loyall subiectes shall receiue deserued punishment God graunt it quoth she but you are so wounded as I think it impossible for you to be at the battell if Barsinan come to morrow againe nor can our men doo any thing without you Be not you troubled ther-with Madame replyed King Arban for while my soule suckes her spirit from the ayre I will not for-sake my charge So bidding her good night he went to haue his woundes dressed and after-ward turned to his Souldiours merilye passing the night among them Barsinan on the other side got into the Tower of London which he had wun and numbring his men found that his power was greatly weakened yet would he make no shew thereof for dismaying the rest but shewing a dissembling countenaunce thus spake to them My fréendes it suffiseth that I haue showen mine enemies what you are and they if I thinke good to stand at my mercie wherefore I am determined without any further losse of you to rest our selues fiue or sixe dayes till Arcalaus send me the head of King Lisuart and then the sight thereof will make them not dare to resist me any longer but in hope of fauour will yéeld them-selues Eache of you therefore reioyce and be of good chéere for when I am King right richly will I reward you all So went they to rest till the next morning when Barsinan being armed mounted on horsseback with twentie Knightes in his companye and came to a Port which one of King Arbans Knights kept who seeing this troupe presently sounded an allarme But Barsinan sent him woord how he came to parle only and desired truce beside for sixe houres whereof King Arban was immediatly aduertised who graunted the truce Barsinan required and likewise for fiue dayes Conditionally that he should offer no violence to any house in the Cittie or practise any entraunce during the limitted time beside if the King returned in that space the difference should bée left to his disposition Barsinan was contented with these conditions because he accounted King Lisuarts death certaine where-upon he said to Arban I hope this little truce will be an entrance into a perpetuall peace betwéene vs for I dare assure yee King Lisuart is dead and his Daughter must be my Wife as within these fiue dayes ensuing you shall euidently sée What quoth King Arban thou hast then put him to death and couldst thou deale so traiterously with him that gaue thée such honorable entertainement in his Court rather will I presently dye then continue one hower of peace with thee get thée gone therefore quickly or I will send thee hence in pieces Is it true quoth Barsinan well mayst thou threaten me but it is in me to make thee repent it Thus returned he to his Souldiours acquainting them with his honest offers to King Arban and the audacious answere he returned for them CHAP. XXXIX ¶ How Amadis came to the succour of the Cittie of London when it was in this distresse NOt long agoe we left Amadis in the wood familiarly deuising with the Princesse Oriana thinking on nothing but their swéete contentation and among other discourse Amadis intreated her to tel him what spéeches Arcalaus had with her by the way On my faith Sir quoth she he confounded my senses with perswading me to reioyce saying Before fiue dayes were expired I should reigne as Quéene in great Brittayne enioying Barsinan to my husband him-selfe likewise should be chéef gouernour and maister of his house in recompence of the seruices he did for him in giuing him my fathers head and me to be his wife Ah heauens said Amadis what treason is this in Barsinan who shewed him-selfe such a fréend to the King God shield he doo no wrong to the Quéene In sooth I greatly doubt it replyed Oriana it were good therefore we hasted to sée With all my heart quoth Amadis so mounting on horsseback they rode toward London méeting many Knights by the way that followed the King whome still he directed in their course certifying them that Galaor was gone likewise in his search Within a while after Oriana espyed Don Grumedan an auncient Knight of honor to the Quéen and twentie Knights more with him who all that night had searched the Forrest for the King but when he sawe her the teares stood in his eyes with ioy desiring to heare some newes of the King her father Credit me Sir quoth she not farre from the Cittie were we sundered when God ordained so well for me that Amadis deliuered me from the
and Briolania holpe to vnarme Amadis for she could not be satisfied with beholding him because she counted him the fairest knight that euer was séen being now but twenty yéeres of age And so piercingly did he regarde her as long time after she wexed very amourous so that when she had recouered her Kingdome she wished him sole Lord of her and her countrye togeather as shall heer-after be declared But Amadis was else-where addicted and gaue sufficient proofe to her that the extream anguishes he endured for his Oriana were manifest examples of his stedfast loyaltie Neuer-the-lesse the yong Lord of Portugall pittying faire Briolania would disguise this historye in another manner describing farre otherwise the loue of her and Amadis which reporte is woorthye of no credit For he saith that Briolania being restored into her Kingdome prouiding for the health of Amadis and Agraies who were wounded she continuing euer-more amourous of Amadis seeing by no meanes she could win him to be her fréend tooke aside the Damosell to whome Amadis Galaor and Agraies made the seuerall promises at what time she conducted Galaor to the Knight that iousâ—ed with them in the Forrest and discouering the secrets of her hart to her with aboundance of teares and affectionate sighes requested her councell and remedye in these amourous passions The Damosell compassionate on her Ladyes sickenesse promised to giue her redresse for it wher-upon she said to Amadis that the boone she would desire of him was his entrance into a Tower from whence he should not depart vntill he had begotten of Briolania a sonne or a daughter Amadis willing to kéepe promise with the Damosell yeelded therto yet without any will to touch Briolania wherby he grew into such melanchollye as he refused all bodily sustenaunce and fell into such danger of his person as euery hower he expected death Which beeing heard in the Courte of King Lisuart as also his deadly dangerous extremetie Oriana lothe to loose him sent him woord and licence that he should doo what the Lady requested Wherupon Amadis considering he might no way else escape and his gracious Mistresse pittyed him so much he begat a sonne and a daughter of Briolania wherof she was deliuered at one labour but this historye is altogeather false and faigned It might be that Amadis was prisoner in the Tower and Briolania behelde his dayly pining away but she desired the Damosell to remit him this boone on condition he should not departe till his brother Galaor returned as willing to comfort her selfe with the sight of him while she attended his brothers arriuall for Galaor espoused her afterward as you shall read in the fourth booke of this Historye Let it then suffice at this time that Amadis and Agraies soâ—ourne certaine daies in the Castell while all néedfull thinges were ready for their combate CHAP. XLII ¶ How Galaor went with the Damosell after the Knight that dismounted him and his companyons in the Forrest whom when he found they combatted together and afterward in the sharpest pointe of their combate they knew eche other FOure dayes together rode Galaor with the Damosell seeking the Knight that vnhorssed him in the Forrest for which he was so ouercome with anger as euery Knight he met withall déerly felt it because in combate manye receiued their death Then espying a faire Castell on the top of a high mountaine the Damosell tolde him there was no other place néere where they might lodge that night wherfore he béeing glad to accept therof they came to the Castell finding many Gentlemen and Ladies sporting together among whom was a Knight aged about thrée-score yeeres who taking Galaor by the hand did him all the honor might be deuised My Lord quoth Galaor your courtesie to vs is so great that albeit we were determined to passe further on our way yet for your sake we are conteÌ„t to stay with you this night Then the Knight conducted Galaor into a faire chamber leauing the Damsell among the other Ladyes after the Prince was vnarmed the Knight spake to him in this maner Héere Sir may you rest and take your ease calling for any thing you stand in néede of for God knowes I haue vsed such entertainemente not onlye to you but to all Knightes errant that passed this way because some-time I haue beene as now you are Yet hath nature giuen me two sonnes whose only delight is in search of aduentures but now they lye sick in their beddes béeing cruelly wounded by a Knight who with one Launce cast them bothe from their Saddles But they were so ashamed at this foyle as they mounted againe and pursued the Knight ouer-taking him as he entred a Barque to passe the water where my sonns saide to him that in respect he had iousted so well they would trye his fortune in combate with the Swoord but the Knight made answere he could not now intend it yet would they needes presse him so farre as to hinder his entraunce into the Barque Wher-upon a Lady béeing in his company said they wronged her ouermuch to stay her Knight but they were not to departe til he had combated with them at the Swoord Seeing it will be no otherwise replyed the Lady he shall enter fight with the better of you bothe on condition that if he be conquerour the other doo forbeare the combate They answered if the one were vanquished the other would reuenge his foyle which when the Knight heard he was so angry as he had them bothe come together in respecte they were importunate and would not rest contented In the triall one of my Sonnes sustained the wurst wherfore his brother séeing him in such perill stroue to reskue him from death yet all was in vaine for the Knight handled them so roughlye as he left them like dead men in the feeld and afterward passed away in the Barque No sooner heard I of this mishap but I sent for my sonnes and home were they brought in this dangerous plight but y t you may giue credit to my woordes beholde héere their Armour cut and mangled as I think the like strokes neuer came from any mans hand Galaor meruayling at this discourse demaunded what Armes the conquering Knight bare when he was answered his Shéeld to be of vermillion couller with two black Lyons figured therin By these tokens Galaor knew him that it was y e same man he trauailed to finde which made him demaund of his fréendly hoste if he had no further knowledge of the Knight No verily Sir quoth the auncient Gentleman For this night answered Galaor let vs take our rest and to morrow I intend to seek the man you talke on For alreadye I haue trauailed foure dayes in his searche but if I méete with him I hope to reuenge the iniurye of your sonnes and other likewise whome he hath offended or else it wil cost the price of my life I could rather wishe saide the Knight that leauing this perillous enterprise you would take some