lisander. And there Alice told him of
what blood she was come. Sir, wit ye well, she said, that I am of the
blood of King Ban, that was father unto Sir Launcelot. Y-wis, fair lady,
said Alisander, my mother told me that my father was brother unto a
king, and I nigh cousin unto Sir Tristram.

Then this while came there three knights, that one hight Vains, and
the other hight Harvis de les Marches, and the third hight Perin de la
Montaine. And with one spear Sir Alisander smote them down all three,
and gave them such falls that they had no list to fight upon foot. So he
made them to swear to wear none arms in a twelvemonth. So when they were
departed Sir Alisander beheld his lady Alice on horseback as he stood
in her pavilion. And then was he so enamoured upon her that he wist not
whether he were on horseback or on foot.

Right so came the false knight Sir Mordred, and saw Sir Alisander was
assotted upon his lady; and therewithal he took his horse by the bridle,
and led him here and there, and had cast to have led him out of that
place to have shamed him. When the damosel that helped him out of that
castle saw how shamefully he was led, anon she let arm her, and set a
shield upon her shoulder; and therewith she mounted upon his horse, and
gat a naked sword in her hand, and she thrust unto Alisander with all
her might, and she gave him such a buffet that he thought the fire flew
out of his eyen. And when Alisander felt that stroke he looked about
him, and drew his sword And when she saw that, she fled, and so did
Mordred into the forest, and the damosel fled into the pavilion. So when
Alisander understood himself how the false knight would have shamed him
had not the damosel been then was he wroth with himself that Sir Mordred
was so escaped his hands. But then Sir Alisander and Alice had good game
at the damosel, how sadly she hit him upon the helm.

Then Sir Alisander jousted thus day by day, and on foot he did many
battles with many knights of King Arthur's court, and with many knights
strangers. Therefore to tell all the battles that he did it were
overmuch to rehearse, for every day within that twelvemonth he had ado
with one knight or with other, and some day he had ado with three or
with four; and there was never knight that put him to the worse. And at
the twelvemonth's end he departed with his lady, Alice la Beale Pilgrim.
And the damosel would never go from him, and so they went into their
country of Benoye, an