...And at that time Merlin prophesied that in that same place should fight two the best knights that ever were in Arthur's days, and the best lovers. So when Sir Tristram came to the tomb where Lanceor and his lady were buried he looked about him after Sir Palomides. Then was he ware of a seemly knight came riding against him all in white...And then they dressed their shields and spears, and came together with all their might of their horses; and they met so fiercely that both their horses and their knights fell to the earth, and as fast as they might, avoided their horses, and put their shields afore them, and they struck together with bright swords, as men that were of might, and either wounded other wonderly sore, that the blood ran out upon the grass. And thus they fought the space of four hours, that never one would speak to the other one word, and of thier harness, they had hewn off many pieces.
-Sir Thomas Malory, Le Mort d' Arthur, Book X, Chapter 5
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