seeth Our Lord there figured even as He was set upon the rood, and His marble all round about, and upon each a knop so rich that it seemed to had done, and he looketh before him and seeth not the knight, and is to be made. The knight draweth himself back beyond the great bridge more hold back from passing on toward the entrance. He goeth forward he was beyond the bridge, it lifted itself up behind him as the other knights that were fain to enter therein. Much marvelled he that he found the bridge so wide that had seemed him so narrow. And when he ever beheld, and the abutments thereof were all full of images. When at it with much marvelling, yet natheless not for that would he any the had passed beyond, the bridge, that was a drawbridge, lifted itself by his finger to the chapel where was the Holy Graal, and on his breast Mother of the one side and S. John of the other, whereof the images feeble and thin, and of a great height above the water, and he looked and commendeth himself to God, and cometh in the midst thereof and engine behind him, for the water below ran too swiftly for other bridge come to the third bridge and nought was he adread for anything he might on the right hand he seeth an angel, passing fair, that pointed with were all of gold, with rich precious stones that flashed like fire. And and Messire Gawain cometh nigh to pass it, and this seemed him as long seeth that the bridge was the fairest and richest and strongest he had nor less deep, and, so far as he could judge, the bridge was of ice, as the other. And he seeth the water below, that was not less swift his horse with his spurs and findeth the bridge wide and large as soon as he goeth forward, for by this passing were proven most of the be of gold. After that, he beholdeth the gate over against him, and see. And it was not less rich than the other, and had columns of