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Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Thomas Malory
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thereby under a cloth stood a fair horse well saddled and
bridled, and on a tree a shield of divers colours and a great
spear. Then Griflet smote on the shield with the butt of his
spear, that the shield fell down to the ground. With that the
knight came out of the pavilion, and said, Fair knight, why smote
ye down my shield? For I will joust with you, said Griflet. It
is better ye do not, said the knight, for ye are but young, and
late made knight, and your might is nothing to mine. As for
that, said Griflet, I will joust with you. That is me loath,
said the knight, but sith I must needs, I will dress me thereto.
Of whence be ye? said the knight. Sir, I am of Arthur's court.
So the two knights ran <41>together that Griflet's spear all to-
shivered; and there withal he smote Griflet through the shield
and the left side, and brake the spear that the truncheon stuck
in his body, that horse and knight fell down.



CHAPTER XXIII

How twelve knights came from Rome and asked truage for this land
of Arthur, and how Arthur fought with a knight.

WHEN the knight saw him lie so on the ground, he alighted, and
was passing heavy, for he weened he had slain him, and then he
unlaced his helm and gat him wind, and so with the truncheon he
set him on his horse, and so betook him to God, and said he had a
mighty heart, and if he might live he would prove a passing good
knight. And so Sir Griflet rode to the court, where great dole
was made for him. But through good leeches he was healed and
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