, well is me that I have met with you;
and wit ye well my name is Epinogris, the king's son of Northumberland.
Now sit down, said Epinogris, and let us either complain to other.

Then Sir Palomides began his complaint. Now shall I tell you, said
Palomides, what woe I endure. I love the fairest queen and lady that
ever bare life, and wit ye well her name is La Beale Isoud, King Mark's
wife of Cornwall. That is great folly, said Epinogris, for to love Queen
Isoud, for one of the best knights of the world loveth her, that is Sir
Tristram de Liones. That is truth, said Palomides, for no man knoweth
that matter better than I do, for I have been in Sir Tristram's
fellowship this month, and with La Beale Isoud together; and alas, said
Palomides, unhappy man that I am, now have I lost the fellowship of Sir
Tristram for ever, and the love of La Beale Isoud for ever, and I am
never like to see her more, and Sir Tristram and I be either to other
mortal enemies. Well, said Epinogris, sith that ye loved La Beale Isoud,
loved she you ever again by anything that ye could think or wit, or else
did ye rejoice her ever in any pleasure? Nay, by my knighthood, said
Palomides, I never espied that ever she loved me more than all the
world, nor never had I pleasure with her, but the last day she gave me
the greatest rebuke that ever I had, the which shall never go from my
heart. And yet I well deserved that rebuke, for I did not knightly, and
therefore I have lost the love of her and of Sir Tristram for ever; and
I have many times enforced myself to do many deeds for La Beale Isoud's
sake, and she was the causer of my worship-winning. Alas, said Sir
Palomides, now have I lost all the worship that ever I won, for never
shall me befall such prowess as I had in the fellowship of Sir Tristram.

CHAPTER LXXXIII. How Sir Palomides brought Sir Epinogris his lady; and
how Sir Palomides and Sir Safere were assailed.

NAY, nay, said Epinogris, your sorrow is but japes to my sorrow; for
I rejoiced my lady and won her with my hands, and lost her again: alas
that day! Thus first I won her, said Epinogris; my lady was an earl's
daughter, and as the earl and two knights came from the tournament of
Lonazep, for her sake I set upon this earl and on his two knights, my
lady there being present; and so by fortune there I slew the earl and
one of the knights, and the other knight fled, and so that night I had
my lady. And on the morn as she and I reposed