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第10章 BOOK I(6)

I shall tell you,said Merlin,mine advice;there are two brethren beyond the sea,and they be kings both,and marvellous good men of their hands;and that one hight King Ban of Benwick,and that other hight King Bors of Gaul,that is France.And on these two kings warreth a mighty man of men,the King Claudas,and striveth with them for a castle,and great war is betwixt them.But this Claudas is so mighty of goods whereof he getteth good knights,that he putteth these two kings most part to the worse;wherefore this is my counsel,that our king and sovereign lord send unto the kings Ban and Bors by two trusty knights with letters well devised,that an they will come and see King Arthur and his court,and so help him in his wars,that he will be sworn unto them to help them in their wars against King Claudas.Now,what say ye unto this counsel?said Merlin.This is well counselled,said the king and all the barons.

Right so in all haste there were ordained to go two knights on the message unto the two kings.So were there made letters in the pleasant wise according unto King Arthur's desire.Ulfius and Brastias were made the messengers,and so rode forth well horsed and well armed and as the guise was that time,and so passed the sea and rode toward the city of Benwick.And there besides were eight knights that espied them,and at a strait passage they met with Ulfius and Brastias,and would have taken them prisoners;so they prayed them that they might pass,for they were messengers unto King Ban and Bors sent from King Arthur.Therefore,said the eight knights,ye shall die or be prisoners,for we be knights of King Claudas.And therewith two of them dressed their spears,and Ulfius and Brastias dressed their spears,and ran together with great raundom.And Claudas'

knights brake their spears,and theirs to-held and bare the two knights out of their saddles to the earth,and so left them lying,and rode their ways.And the other six knights rode afore to a passage to meet with them again,and so Ulfius and Brastias smote other two down,and so passed on their ways.And at the fourth passage there met two for two,and both were laid unto the earth;so there was none of the eight knights but he was sore hurt or bruised.And when they come to Benwick it fortuned there were both kings,Ban and Bors.

And when it was told the kings that there were come messengers,there were sent unto them two knights of worship,the one hight Lionses,lord of the country of Payarne,and Sir Phariance a worshipful knight.Anon they asked from whence they came,and they said from King Arthur,king of England;so they took them in their arms and made great joy each of other.But anon,as the two kings wist they were messengers of Arthur's,there was made no tarrying,but forthwith they spake with the knights,and welcomed them in the faithfullest wise,and said they were most welcome unto them before all the kings living;and therewith they kissed the letters and delivered them.And when Ban and Bors understood the letters,then they were more welcome than they were before.And after the haste of the letters they gave them this answer,that they would fulfil the desire of King Arthur's writing,and Ulfius and Brastias,tarry there as long as they would,they should have such cheer as might be made them in those marches.Then Ulfius and Brastias told the kings of the adventure at their passages of the eight knights.Ha!ah!said Ban and Bors,they were my good friends.I would I had wist of them;they should not have escaped so.So Ulfius and Brastias had good cheer and great gifts,as much as they might bear away;and had their answer by mouth and by writing,that those two kings would come unto Arthur in all the haste that they might.

So the two knights rode on afore,and passed the sea,and came to their lord,and told him how they had sped,whereof King Arthur was passing glad.At what time suppose ye the two kings will be here?Sir,said they,afore All Hallowmass.Then the king let purvey for a great feast,and let cry a great jousts.And by All Hallowmass the two kings were come over the sea with three hundred knights well arrayed both for the peace and for the war.

And King Arthur met with them ten mile out of London,and there was great joy as could be thought or made.And on All Hallowmass at the great feast,sat in the hall the three kings,and Sir Kay seneschal served in the hall,and Sir Lucas the butler,that was Duke Corneus'son,and Sir Griflet,that was the son of Cardol,these three knights had the rule of all the service that served the kings.And anon,as they had washen and risen,all knights that would joust made them ready;by then they were ready on horseback there were seven hundred knights.And Arthur,Ban,and Bors,with the Archbishop of Canterbury,and Sir Ector,Kay's father,they were in a place covered with cloth of gold like an hall,with ladies and gentlewomen,for to behold who did best,and thereon to give judgment.

CHAPTER XI

Of a great tourney made by King Arthur and the two kings Ban and Bors,and how they went over the sea.

AND King Arthur and the two kings let depart the seven hundred knights in two parties.And there were three hundred knights of the realm of Benwick and of Gaul turned on the other side.Then they dressed their shields,and began to couch their spears many good knights.So Griflet was the first that met with a knight,one Ladinas,and they met so eagerly that all men had wonder;and they so fought that their shields fell to pieces,and horse and man fell to the earth;and both the French knight and the English knight lay so long that all men weened they had been dead.When Lucas the butler saw Griflet so lie,he horsed him again anon,and they two did marvellous deeds of arms with many bachelors.

Also Sir Kay came out of an ambushment with five knights with him,and they six smote other six down.But Sir Kay did that day marvellous deeds of arms,that there was none did so well as he that day.Then there came Ladinas and Gracian,two knights of France,and did passing well,that all men praised them.

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