mouse quoted Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory (Le Morte d'Arthur, #1)
Le Morte d'Arthur (originally spelled Le Morte Darthur, Middle French for "the death of Arthur"[1]) …
'Fair lords,' said Beaumains, 'wit you well I am full loath to slay this knight, nevertheless he hath done passing ill and shamefully; but insomuch all that he did was at a lady’s request I blame him the less; and so for your sake I will release him that he shall have his life upon this covenant, that he go within the castle, and yield him there to the lady, and if she will forgive and quit him, I will well; with this he make her amends of all the trespass he hath done against her and her lands.'
— Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory (Le Morte d'Arthur, #1) (Page 264)
look, he may have "...put all these knights to death, ... ensured her to do all the villainy unto King Arthur’s knights, and ... take vengeance upon all these knights" but a lady asked him to so can we really blame him
