Codal

Table of Contents

VI p. 14
VII pp. 15–16
XV pp. 29–30
XII pp. 49–50
XIII pp. 51–52
XV pp. 53–54
XVI p. 55
IX pp. 119–120
XIII p. 129
XVIII pp. 138–139
II pp. 143–144
III p. 145
IV p. 146
IX p. 155
XXVIII pp. 196–197
XXIX pp. 198–199
XXX pp. 200–201
XXXI pp. 202–203
V pp. 221–222
XIV pp. 235–236
XVII pp. 240–241
XVIII pp. 242–243
XXVI p. 255
XXXV pp. 271–272
IX pp. 299–300
VI pp. 343–344
XII p. 364
XIII pp. 365–366
XIV pp. 367–368
XV pp. 369–370
XVI p. 371
XVII pp. 372–373
XII pp. 396–397
XX pp. 415–416
VII pp. 441–442
Book XX pp. 457–458
II pp. 459–460
X pp. 476–477
XIV pp. 485–486
XV pp. 487–488
XXI pp. 502–503

Then the queen, Isoud’s mother, gave to her and Dame Bragwaine, her daughter’s gentlewoman, and unto Gouvernail, a drink, and charged them that what day King Mark should wed, that same day they should give him that drink, so that King Mark should drink to La Beale Isoud, and then, said the queen, I undertake either shall love other the days of their life. So this drink was given unto Dame Bragwaine, and unto Gouvernail. And then anon Sir Tristram took the sea, and La Beale Isoud; and when they were in their cabin, it happed so that they were thirsty, and they saw a little flasket of gold stand by them, and it seemed by the colour and the taste that it was noble wine. Then Sir Tristram took the flasket in his hand, and said, Madam Isoud, here is the best drink that ever ye drank, that Dame Bragwaine, your maiden, and Gouvernail, my servant, have kept for themselves. Then they laughed and made good cheer, and either drank to other freely, and they thought never drink that ever they drank to other was so sweet nor so good. But by that their drink was in their bodies, they loved either other so well that never their love departed for weal neither for woe. And thus it happed the love first betwixt Sir Tristram and La Beale Isoud, the which love never departed the days of their life.

So then they sailed till by fortune they came nigh a castle that hight Pluere, and thereby arrived for to repose them, weening to them to have had good harbourage. But anon as Sir Tristram was within the castle they were taken prisoners; for the custom of the castle was such; who that rode by that castle and brought any lady, he must needs fight with the lord, that hight Breunor. And if it were so that Breunor won the field, then should the knight stranger and his lady be put to death, what that ever they were; and if it were so that the strange knight won the field of Sir Breunor, then should he die and his lady both. This custom was used many winters, for it was called the Castle Pluere, that is to say the Weeping Castle.

How Sir Tristram and Isoud were in prison, and how he fought for her beauty, and smote off another lady’s head.

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