nd I shall soon fulfil thine avows. As ye will, said
Palomides, so it shall be.

So they rode both unto that knight that sat upon a bank, and then Sir
Tristram saluted him, and he weakly saluted him again. Sir knight, said
Sir Tristram, I require you tell me your right name. Sir, he said, my
name is Sir Galleron of Galway, and knight of the Table Round. So God
me help, said Sir Tristram, I am right heavy of your hurts; but this is
all, I must pray you to lend me all your whole armour, for ye see I
am unarmed, and I must do battle with this knight. Sir, said the hurt
knight, ye shall have it with a good will; but ye must beware, for I
warn you that knight is wight. Sir, said Galleron, I pray you tell me
your name, and what is that knight's name that hath beaten me. Sir, as
for my name it is Sir Tristram de Liones, and as for the knight's name
that hath hurt you is Sir Palomides, brother to the good knight Sir
Safere, and yet is Sir Palomides unchristened. Alas, said Sir Galleron,
that is pity that so good a knight and so noble a man of arms should be
unchristened. So God me help, said Sir Tristram, either he shall slay me
or I him but that he shall be christened or ever we depart in-sunder.
My lord Sir Tristram, said Sir Galleron, your renown and worship is well
known through many realms, and God save you this day from shenship and
shame.

Then Sir Tristram unarmed Galleron, the which was a noble knight, and
had done many deeds of arms, and he was a large knight of flesh and
bone. And when he was unarmed he stood upon his feet, for he was bruised
in the back with a spear; yet so as Sir Galleron might, he armed Sir
Tristram. And then Sir Tristram mounted upon his own horse, and in his
hand he gat Sir Galleron's spear; and therewithal Sir Palomides was
ready. And so they came hurtling together, and either smote other in
midst of their shields; and therewithal Sir Palomides' spear brake,
and Sir Tristram smote down the horse; and Sir Palomides, as soon as
he might, avoided his horse, and dressed his shield, and pulled out his
sword. That saw Sir Tristram, and therewithal he alighted and tied his
horse till a tree.

CHAPTER XIV. How Sir Tristram and Sir Palomides fought long together,
and after accorded, and how Sir Tristram made him to be christened.

AND then they came together as two wild boars, lashing together, tracing
and traversing as noble men that oft had been well proved in battle;
but ever Sir Palomides