Chapter 37: VIII

VIII How Merlin prophesied that two the best knights of the world should fight there, which were Sir Lancelot and Sir Tristram. The meanwhile as this was a-doing, in came Merlin to King Mark, and seeing all his doing, said, Here shall be in this same place the greatest battle betwixt two knights that was or ever shall be, and the truest lovers, and yet none of them shall slay other. And there Merlin wrote their names upon the tomb with letters of gold that should fight in that place, whos…