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on thee traitor, said Palomides, for wit you well an it were daylight
as it is night I should slay thee, mine own hands. And if ever I may get
thee, said Palomides, thou shalt die for this day's deed. Sir Palomides,
said Sir Tristram, ye wite me with wrong, for had ye done as I did ye
had won worship. But sithen ye give me so large warning I shall be
well ware of you. Fie on thee, traitor, said Palomides, and therewith
departed.

Then on the morn Sir Tristram, Bleoberis, and Sir Ector de Maris, Sir
Gareth, Sir Dinadan, what by water and what by land, they brought La
Beale Isoud unto Joyous Gard, and there reposed them a seven night, and
made all the mirths and disports that they could devise. And King Arthur
and his knights drew unto Camelot, and Sir Palomides rode with the two
kings; and ever he made the greatest dole that any man could think, for
he was not all only so dolorous for the departing from La Beale Isoud,
but he was a part as sorrowful to depart from the fellowship of Sir
Tristram; for Sir Tristram was so kind and so gentle that when Sir
Palomides remembered him thereof he might never be merry.

CHAPTER LXXXI. How Sir Bleoberis and Sir Ector reported to Queen
Guenever of the beauty of La Beale Isoud.

SO at the seven nights' end Sir Bleoberis and Sir Ector departed from
Sir Tristram and from the queen; and these two good knights had great
gifts; and Sir Gareth and Sir Dinadan abode with Sir Tristram. And when
Sir Bleoberis and Sir Ector were come there as the Queen Guenever was
lodged, in a castle by the seaside, and through the grace of God the
queen was recovered of her malady, then she asked the two knights from
whence they came. They said that they came from Sir Tristram and from La
Beale Isoud. How doth Sir Tristram, said the queen, and La Beale Isoud?
Truly, said those two knights, he doth as a noble knight should do; and
as for the Queen Isoud, she is peerless of all ladies; for to speak of
her beauty, bounte, and mirth, and of her goodness, we saw never her
match as far as we have ridden and gone. O mercy Jesu, said Queen
Guenever, so saith all the people that have seen her and spoken with
her. God would that I had part of her conditions; and it is misfortuned
me of my sickness while that tournament endured. And as I suppose I
shall never see in all my life such an assembly of knights and ladies as
ye have done.

Then the knights told her how Palomides won the degree at the first day
wi