Meliot marvelleth him much. wherefore behoveth me thus keep watch, and in the morning will he come "Damsel," said Meliot, "When was this knight killed?" will search all the forest to look for me." knight will slay me. To-morrow, when he findeth not the knights, he And so behoveth me to watch them here for forty days, that none take castle, he saith, and would cut off my head." "By my head," saith Meliot, "Such watch is foul shame to damsel, and no of me and of this damsel you have brought hither, will likewise be "Ha, Sir," saith the damsel, "Then shall I be a dead woman, for he is they come to a chapel where was wont to be a hermit that the Knight of light, and a damsel was there that kept watch over a dead knight. afterward they entered into the chapel, where was a great brightness of longer shall you remain here." "Sir, yesterday the Knight of the Galley slew him on the seashore, to fight with a lion, all unarmed, and my Lady, that is mistress both Meliot and the damsel together go their way through the forest until might. II. of so great cruelty that none scarce might protect me against him." Meliot made them graves with his sword, and so buried them the best he knights in such wise for the reproach of other knights." the Galley had destroyed. He helpeth down the damsel of his horse, and them down of hanging, for and they were taken hence he would lose his hither or ever he go to the castle where Messire Gawain hath to-morrow "Sir," saith the damsel, "And you take not thought to protect me, the "Damsel," saith Meliot, "Foul shame would it be and I left here these