Le Morte Darthur, Chapter 134 summary

What happens

1. The knights fight past noon into evening, resting briefly as their wounds and exhaustion increase.
2. During another rest, Dame Liones gives Beaumains an encouraging look, and he calls for the fight to resume.
3. The red knight disarms Beaumains and pins him down, but Linet’s appeal prompts him to rise and recover his sword.
4. Beaumains defeats and disarms his opponent, then threatens to kill him for the shameful deaths of other knights.
5. The red knight explains his promise to avenge a lady’s brother and says his strength grows until noon.

What to notice

The plea changes the encounter from a contest of strength into a question of mercy. Beaumains answers by raising the deaths of other knights.

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