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第97章 BOOK VIII(1)

CHAPTER I

How Sir Tristram de Liones was born,and how his mother died at his birth,wherefore she named him Tristram.

IT was a king that hight Meliodas,and he was lord and king of the country of Liones,and this Meliodas was a likely knight as any was that time living.And by fortune he wedded King Mark's sister of Cornwall,and she was called Elizabeth,that was called both good and fair.And at that time King Arthur reigned,and he was whole king of England,Wales,and Scotland,and of many other realms:howbeit there were many kings that were lords of many countries,but all they held their lands of King Arthur;for in Wales were two kings,and in the north were many kings;and in Cornwall and in the west were two kings;also in Ireland were two or three kings,and all were under the obeissance of King Arthur.

So was the King of France,and the King of Brittany,and all the lordships unto Rome.

So when this King Meliodas had been with his wife,within a while she waxed great with child,and she was a full meek lady,and well she loved her lord,and he her again,so there was great joy betwixt them.Then there was a lady in that country that had loved King Meliodas long,and by no mean she never could get his love;therefore she let ordain upon a day,as King Meliodas rode a-hunting,for he was a great chaser,and there by an enchantment she made him chase an hart by himself alone till that he came to an old castle,and there anon he was taken prisoner by the lady that him loved.When Elizabeth,King Meliodas'wife,missed her lord,and she was nigh out of her wit,and also as great with child as she was,she took a gentlewoman with her,and ran into the forest to seek her lord.And when she was far in the forest she might no farther,for she began to travail fast of her child.And she had many grimly throes;her gentlewoman helped her all that she might,and so by miracle of Our Lady of Heaven she was delivered with great pains.But she had taken such cold for the default of help that deep draughts of death took her,that needs she must die and depart out of this world;there was none other bote.

And when this Queen Elizabeth saw that there was none other bote,then she made great dole,and said unto her gentlewoman:When ye see my lord,King Meliodas,recommend me unto him,and tell him what pains I endure here for his love,and how I must die here for his sake for default of good help;and let him wit that I am full sorry to depart out of this world from him,therefore pray him to be friend to my soul.Now let me see my little child,for whom I have had all this sorrow.And when she saw him she said thus:Ah,my little son,thou hast murdered thy mother,and therefore I suppose,thou that art a murderer so young,thou art full likely to be a manly man in thine age.And because I shall die of the birth of thee,I charge thee,gentlewoman,that thou pray my lord,King Meliodas,that when he is christened let call him Tristram,that is as much to say as a sorrowful birth.And therewith this queen gave up the ghost and died.Then the gentlewoman laid her under an umbre of a great tree,and then she lapped the child as well as she might for cold.Right so there came the barons,following after the queen,and when they saw that she was dead,and understood none other but the king was destroyed,then certain of them would have slain the child,because they would have been lords of the country of Liones.

CHAPTER II

How the stepmother of Sir Tristram had ordained poison for to have poisoned Sir Tristram.

BUT then through the fair speech of the gentlewoman,and by the means that she made,the most part of the barons would not assent thereto.And then they let carry home the dead queen,and much dole was made for her.

Then this meanwhile Merlin delivered King Meliodas out of prison on the morn after his queen was dead.And so when the king was come home the most part of the barons made great joy.But the sorrow that the king made for his queen that might no tongue tell.So then the king let inter her richly,and after he let christen his child as his wife had commanded afore her death.

And then he let call him Tristram,the sorrowful born child.

Then the King Meliodas endured seven years without a wife,and all this time Tristram was nourished well.Then it befell that King Meliodas wedded King Howell's daughter of Brittany,and anon she had children of King Meliodas:then was she heavy and wroth that her children should not rejoice the country of Liones,wherefore this queen ordained for to poison young Tristram.So she let poison be put in a piece of silver in the chamber whereas Tristram and her children were together,unto that intent that when Tristram were thirsty he should drink that drink.And so it fell upon a day,the queen's son,as he was in that chamber,espied the piece with poison,and he weened it had been good drink,and because the child was thirsty he took the piece with poison and drank freely;and therewithal suddenly the child brast and was dead.

When the queen of Meliodas wist of the death of her son,wit ye well that she was heavy.But yet the king understood nothing of her treason.Notwithstanding the queen would not leave this,but eft she let ordain more poison,and put it in a piece.

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