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第13章 BOOK I(9)

THEN Lucas saw King Agwisance,that late had slain Moris de la Roche,and Lucas ran to him with a short spear that was great,that he gave him such a fall,that the horse fell down to the earth.Also Lucas found there on foot,Bloias de La Flandres,and Sir Gwinas,two hardy knights,and in that woodness that Lucas was in,he slew two bachelors and horsed them again.Then waxed the battle passing hard on both parties,but Arthur was glad that his knights were horsed again,and then they fought together,that the noise and sound rang by the water and the wood.Wherefore King Ban and King Bors made them ready,and dressed their shields and harness,and they were so courageous that many knights shook and bevered for eagerness.All this while Lucas,and Gwinas,and Briant,and Bellias of Flanders,held strong medley against six kings,that was King Lot,King Nentres,King Brandegoris,King Idres,King Uriens,and King Agwisance.So with the help of Sir Kay and of Sir Griflet they held these six kings hard,that unnethe they had any power to defend them.But when Sir Arthur saw the battle would not be ended by no manner,he fared wood as a lion,and steered his horse here and there,on the right hand,and on the left hand,that he stinted not till he had slain twenty knights.Also he wounded King Lot sore on the shoulder,and made him to leave that ground,for Sir Kay and Griflet did with King Arthur there great deeds of arms.Then Ulfius,and Brastias,and Sir Ector encountered against the Duke Eustace,and King Cradelment,and King Clariance of Northumberland,and King Carados,and against the King with the Hundred Knights.So these knights encountered with these kings,that they made them to avoid the ground.Then King Lot made great dole for his damages and his fellows,and said unto the ten kings,But if ye will do as Idevise we shall be slain and destroyed;let me have the King with the Hundred Knights,and King Agwisance,and King Idres,and the Duke of Cambenet,and we five kings will have fifteen thousand men of arms with us,and we will go apart while ye six kings hold medley with twelve thousand;an we see that ye have foughten with them long,then will we come on fiercely,and else shall we never match them,said King Lot,but by this mean.So they departed as they here devised,and six kings made their party strong against Arthur,and made great war long.

In the meanwhile brake the ambushment of King Ban and King Bors,and Lionses and Phariance had the vanguard,and they two knights met with King Idres and his fellowship,and there began a great medley of breaking of spears,and smiting of swords,with slaying of men and horses,and King Idres was near at discomforture.

That saw Agwisance the king,and put Lionses and Phariance in point of death;for the Duke of Cambenet came on withal with a great fellowship.So these two knights were in great danger of their lives that they were fain to return,but always they rescued themselves and their fellowship marvellously When King Bors saw those knights put aback,it grieved him sore;then he came on so fast that his fellowship seemed as black as Inde.

When King Lot had espied King Bors,he knew him well,then he said,O Jesu,defend us from death and horrible maims!for I see well we be in great peril of death;for I see yonder a king,one of the most worshipfullest men and one of the best knights of the world,is inclined unto his fellowship.What is he?said the King with the Hundred Knights.It is,said King Lot,King Bors of Gaul;I marvel how they came into this country without witting of us all.It was by Merlin's advice,said the knight.As for him,said King Carados,I will encounter with King Bors,an ye will rescue me when myster is.Go on,said they all,we will do all that we may.Then King Carados and his host rode on a soft pace,till that they came as nigh King Bors as bow-draught;then either battle let their horse run as fast as they might.And Bleoberis,that was godson unto King Bors,he bare his chief standard,that was a passing good knight.Now shall we see,said King Bors,how these northern Britons can bear the arms:and King Bors encountered with a knight,and smote him throughout with a spear that he fell dead unto the earth;and after drew his sword and did marvellous deeds of arms,that all parties had great wonder thereof;and his knights failed not,but did their part,and King Carados was smitten to the earth.With that came the King with the Hundred Knights and rescued King Carados mightily by force of arms,for he was a passing good knight of a king,and but a young man.

CHAPTER XVI

Yet more of the same battle.

BY then came into the field King Ban as fierce as a lion,with bands of green and thereupon gold.Ha!a!said King Lot,we must be discomfited,for yonder I see the most valiant knight of the world,and the man of the most renown,for such two brethren as is King Ban and King Bors are not living,wherefore we must needs void or die;and but if we avoid manly and wisely there is but death.When King Ban came into the battle,he came in so fiercely that the strokes redounded again from the wood and the water;wherefore King Lot wept for pity and dole that he saw so many good knights take their end.But through the great force of King Ban they made both the northern battles that were departed hurtled together for great dread;and the three kings and their knights slew on ever,that it was pity on to behold that multitude of the people that fled.But King Lot,and King of the Hundred Knights,and King Morganore gathered the people together passing knightly,and did great prowess of arms,and held the battle all that day,like hard.

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