Chapter 181: XXV

XXV How Sir Tristram and Isoud were in prison, and how he fought for her beauty, and smote off another lady’s head. Thus as Sir Tristram and La Beale Isoud were in prison, it happed a knight and a lady came unto them where they were, to cheer them. I have marvel, said Tristram unto the knight and the lady, what is the cause the lord of this castle holdeth us in prison: it was never the custom of no place of worship that ever I came in, when a knight and a lady asked harbour, and they to r…