[Le morte darthur]

¶Capitulum xxiiij

THenne goodely they said al at ones / god foryeue you and we do / and praye you that ye will telle vs where we may fynde syr Beaumayns / Fayre lordes said syr Iron∣syde I can not telle you / for it is ful ••ard to fynde hym / for suche yong knyghtes as he is one / whanne they be in their ad¦uentures ben neuer abydynge in no place / ¶But to saye the worship that the reed knyghte of the reed laundes and syr per¦saunt and his broder said of Beaumayns / it was merueil to here / Wel my fayre lordes said kynge Arthur / wete yow wel / I shalle do you honour for the loue of syr Beaumayns / and as soone as euer I mete with hym I shalle make you al vp¦on one day knyghtes of the table round / And as to the syre Persaunt ••o Inde thou hast ben euer called a ful noble kny∣ghte / and soo haue euer ben thy thre bretheren called / But I merueil said the kyng that I here not of the black knyʒt your

broder / he was a ful noble knyghte / Syr sayd Pertolype the grene knyʒt syr Beaumayns slewe hym in a recoūtre with his spere / his name was syr Perard / that was grete pyte sayd the kynge and soo said many knyghtes / For these four brethe¦ren were ful wel knowen in the courte of kynge Arthur for noble knyghtes / for long tyme they had holden werre ageynst the knyghtes of the round table / Thenne sayd Pertolepe the grene knyghte to the kynge atte a passage of the water of mortay••e there encountred syr Beaumayns with two brethe¦ren that euer for ••he moost party kepte that passage / and they were two dedely knyghtes / and there he slewe the eldest broder in the water / and smote hym vpon the heede suche a buffet that he felle doune in the water / and there he was drouned / & his name was sir Garard le brewse / and after he slewe the other broder vpon the lond / his name was syr Arnold le brewse /