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How by the counsel of La Beale Isoud Sir Tristram rode.
armed, and how he met with Sir Palomides.
SO on a day La Beale Isoud said unto Sir Tristram: I marvel me much, said she, that ye remember not yourself, how ye be here in a strange country, and here be many perilous knights; and well ye wot that King Mark is full of treason; and that ye will ride thus to chase and to hunt unarmed ye might be destroyed.

My fair lady and my love, I cry you mercy, I will no more do so.

So then Sir Tristram rode daily a-hunting armed, and his men bearing his shield and his spear.

So on a day a little afore the month of May, Sir Tristram chased an hart passing eagerly, and so the hart passed by a fair well.