conceal his name, and that they should call him not Lord but Comrade. pity of me, and saved me my honour, whereof am I in great unhappiness. they found a right fair hold in the forest, whereinto they entered and place in holiness for the service of God. The King was right joyful the hermits and entered into a forest, nor was there never a day so rich robes to wear. She looketh at Lancelot and knoweth him again. VIII. glad. He bade Messire Gawain and Lancelot that they should everywhere great cheer, then made them be disarmed, afterward bringeth them right overpassed." and lead them to such a castle and such a hostel as that they might be never yet had joy of me, nor never shall have." long as King Arthur was on pilgrimage, so saith the history, but he heard the sound of one single bell every hour, whereof he was right lodged honourably therein. They rode on until evening drew nigh, and thing I best loved in the world, and made me marry this damsel that "Sir," saith she, "You had once, on a day that is past, right great "By my head," saith he, "I know you well For you disappointed me of the But better love I to suffer misease in honour, than to have plenty and thereof, and told them that it had been too perilous. They parted from Thereupon behold you the knight of the hold, whither he cometh from deer and wild boar. He alighted to greet the knights, and began to laugh when he saw Lancelot. shooting in the forest and maketh carry in full great plenty venison of They yielded him his will, and prayed to Our Lord that he would guide abundance in shame or reproach, for shame endureth, but sorrow is soon alighted. The damsel of the hold came to meet them and made them right