save you shall first have made amends of that you have misdone towards worshipful men that be now in the world. Wherefore shall right sore the hermit to the King, "I know you well, as did I also King Uther Pendragon your father. On account of your sins and your deserts might you not enter here while mass was being sung. Nor will you to-morrow, VII. King Arthur entered into the chapel without any hindrance. "Sir," saith and well might you have been joyous in your heart had you deserved so est". The Son took the Mother by the hand, and they evanished forth of the arms of God, he went to King Arthur that was still without the into the shape of the Child that he had seen tofore. chapel. "Sir," saith he to the King, "Now may you well enter herein shall do him ill, that cometh from shame to honour, for the honour the richest King of the world and the most adventurous, wherefore ought When the mass was sung, the voice of a holy angel said "Ite, missa in honour; whereas you are now an ensample of evil-doing to all rich seen. The flame that was come down through the window went away with God and towards the saint that is worshipped herewithin. For you are all the world to take ensample of you in well-doing and in largesse and this company. When the hermit had done his service and was divested of adventurous, whereas now is it least of worth. Well may he be sorry mishap betide you and you set nor back your doing to the point whereat the chapel with the greatest company and the fairest that might ever be you began. For your court was the sovran of all courts and the most that goeth from honour to shame, but never may he have reproach that much as that you might have come in at the beginning of the mass." wherein he is found rescueth him to God, but blame may never rescue the