“Another horse gone; I tell you it is a custom that ought to be broken up.

I don’t see how people with any feeling can applaud and support it.”

. . . .

“So these two knights came together with great random — ”

I saw that I had been asleep and missed a chapter, but I didn’t say anything. I judged that the Irish knight was in trouble with the visitors by this time, and this turned out to be the case.

“ — that Sir Uwaine smote Sir Marhaus that his spear brast in pieces on the shield, and Sir Marhaus smote him so sore that horse and man he bare to the earth, and hurt Sir Uwaine on the left side — ”