soon, for he was scarce better loved than you, and God grant you may toward me than hardy." as are you, never would he have done your will, but his own. And this that joy of him shall she never have, and if the knight had been armed not have wedded her." have you slain, and I myself will bring about trouble for you, so quickly as I may." you see here was making the graves in the burial-ground." Thereupon the dwarf smiteth the mule with his whip, and she departeth. "Damsel," saith Lancelot, "true it is that I was there, but I departed his; for great rejoicing would there be thereof, for many a good knight is not the first harm you have done me; you and Messire Gawain between XV. "Fair friend," saith Lancelot, "Rather would I they should be coward and failed." "Lancelot," saith the damsel, "Much outrage have you done, for you slew Gawain, but had he there been known, he would not have departed so "I tell you true," saith Lancelot, "But had I not been there, he would you have slain my uncle and my two cousins-german in the forest, whom from the grave-yard, honour safe." "True," saith the dwarf, "For the knights that were there were craven, find a knight that may abate the outrages that are in your heart and in "Shame and ill adventure may you have thereof, for you have reft me of the Knight of the Waste House, there whither the brachet led Messire Lancelot would answer none of her reviling, wherefore he departed the thing in the world that most I loved. And know you well of a truth behoved me bury in the chapel where you were, there where my dwarf that