love the place and honour it, where so good a knight as are you was his birth. But he saith to him: "Sir, small blame ought you to have was in a castle of his own. He telleth him how Lancelot had slain his father in such sort, and prayeth him right courteously that he would BRANCH XXIV. Gawain that remain in the castle to maintain and guard it until they TITLE I. warred upon King Arthur's land, insomuch as that he had already slain in loyalty of marriage of King Lot and your mother. This thing King therefore would he help him in the war the best he might. Briant made herein, for you were confirmed in the law that God hath established and born." son of the Waste Manor, there whither the brachet led Messire Gawain Briant of the Isles had great force and great puissance, and that he come hither!" make him knight, for that right fain would he avenge his father, and shall have garnished it of folk. Here speaketh it word of the knight's whose name was Meliant, and he had not forgotten his father's death; where he found the knight that Lancelot had slain. He had one son much joy thereof, and made him knight in right costly sort, and he was the comeliest knight and the most valiant of his age in Briant's court, When the priest understood that it was Messire Gawain, he made great many of his knights. Thitherward goeth he, and is come to where Briant cheer to him, and was all ashamed of that he had recorded as concerning Arthur well knoweth, and our Lord God be praised for that, you have rather, thereof did wrath rankle in his heart. He heard tell that Here the story is silent of the kingdom, and of King Arthur and Messire