"Wherefore not?" saith Messire Gawain, "Be there no knights in this Lancelot taketh the way to the right, and Messire Gawain to the left. "Lancelot," saith Messire Gawain, "Choose which road soever you will, "Sir," saith the hermit, "In this neighbourhood will you find no Here the story is silent of Lancelot, and saith that Messire Gawain and so let each go by himself, so that we may the sooner hear tidings that he may find the knight. He rideth until the day cometh to knight." him well. TITLE I. gladly." decline, and he lay in the house of a hermit in the forest, that lodged where all the roads of the forest join together. "And who is the one of the sea?" saith Messire Gawain. "Sir," saith the hermit to Messire Gawain, "Whom do you go seek?" BRANCH XIII. "There was wont to be plenty," saith the hermit, "But now no longer are end of a year and let either tell other how he hath sped, for please Therewithal they depart and commend them one another to God. that have chased away and slain all the others." of the Good Knight, and let us meet together again at this cross at the country?" "Sir," saith he, "I am in quest of a knight that I would see right goeth a great pace riding, and prayeth God that He will so counsel him God in one place or another we shall hear tidings of him." there any, save one all alone in a castle and one all alone on the sea "Sir," saith the hermit, "I know not who he is, save only that the sea