Not for then they both lightly arose and dressed their shields on their shoulders, with naked swords in their hands, and they dashed together that it seemed a flaming fire about them.

Thus they traced, and traversed, and hewed on helms and hauberks, and cut away many cantels of their shields, and either wounded other passing sore, so that the hot blood fell freshly upon the earth.

And by then they had foughten the mountenance of an hour Sir Tristram waxed faint and for-bled, and gave sore aback.

That saw Sir Elias, and followed fiercely upon him, and wounded him in many places.

And ever Sir Tristram traced and traversed, and went froward him here and there, and covered him with his shield as he might all weakly, that all men said he was overcome; for Sir Elias had given him twenty strokes against one.
Then was there laughing of the Sessoins' party, and great dole on King Mark's party.