e after your queen and rescue her, or else I shall
be beaten. Gramercy, said the king, as I live, Sir Lambegus, I shall
deserve it. And then Sir Lambegus armed him, and rode after as fast as
he might. And then within a while he overtook Sir Palamides. And then
Sir Palamides left the queen. What art thou, said Palamides, art thou
Tristram? Nay, he said, I am his servant, and my name is Sir Lambegus.
That me repenteth, said Palamides. I had liefer thou hadst been Sir
Tristram. I believe you well, said Lambegus, but when thou meetest
with Sir Tristram thou shalt have thy hands full. And then they hurtled
together and all to-brast their spears, and then they pulled out their
swords, and hewed on helms and hauberks. At the last Sir Palamides gave
Sir Lambegus such a wound that he fell down like a dead knight to the
earth.

Then he looked after La Beale Isoud, and then she was gone he nist
where. Wit ye well Sir Palamides was never so heavy. So the queen ran
into the forest, and there she found a well, and therein she had thought
to have drowned herself. And as good fortune would, there came a knight
to her that had a castle thereby, his name was Sir Adtherp. And when he
found the queen in that mischief he rescued her, and brought her to his
castle. And when he wist what she was he armed him, and took his horse,
and said he would be avenged upon Palamides; and so he rode on till he
met with him, and there Sir Palamides wounded him sore, and by force he
made him to tell him the cause why he did battle with him, and how he
had led the queen unto his castle. Now bring me there, said Palamides,
or thou shalt die of my hands. Sir, said Sir Adtherp, I am so wounded
I may not follow, but ride you this way and it shall bring you into my
castle, and there within is the queen. Then Sir Palamides rode still
till he came to the castle. And at a window La Beale Isoud saw Sir
Palamides; then she made the gates to be shut strongly. And when he
saw he might not come within the castle, he put off his bridle and his
saddle, and put his horse to pasture, and set himself down at the gate
like a man that was out of his wit that recked not of himself.

CHAPTER XXXI. How Sir Tristram rode after Palamides, and how he found
him and fought with him, and by the means of Isoud the battle ceased.

NOW turn we unto Sir Tristram, that when he was come home and wist La
Beale Isoud was gone with Sir Palamides, wit ye well he was wroth out of
measure. A