suddenly he drew his sword and said: Ah, traitor; and
smote Sir Bersules on the head, that the sword went to
his teeth. When Amant, the knight, saw him do that
villainous deed, and his squires, they said it was foul done,
and mischievously: Wherefore we will do thee no more
service, and wit ye well, we will appeach thee of treason
afore Arthur. Then was King Mark wonderly wroth
and would have slain Amant; but he and the two squires
held them together, and set nought by his malice. When
King Mark saw he might not be revenged on them, he
said thus unto the knight, Amant: Wit thou well, an
thou appeach me of treason I shall thereof defend me
afore King Arthur; but I require thee that thou tell not
my name, that I am King Mark, whatsomever come of
me. As for that, said Sir Amant, I will not discover your
name; and so they departed, and Amant and his fellows
took the body of Bersules and buried it.



CHAPTER VIII

How King Mark came to a fountain where he found Sir
Lamorak complaining for the love of King Lot's wife.


THEN King Mark rode till he came to a fountain, and
there he rested him, and stood in a doubt whether he
would ride to Arthur's court or none, or return again to
his country. And as he thus rested him by that fountain