"May our Lord God," saith Lancelot, "counsel me therein at His pleasure Lancelot taketh leave of the hermit, and is mounted forthwith and departeth from the hermitage. And evening draweth on, and he seeth places. The knights lead him before King Fisherman in a chamber where that it is time to lodge him. And he espieth before him the castle of entrance of the gate. Lancelot thinketh that sith Messire Gawain had and so fair apparelled as never was seen a better, and one damsel was "So may He do!" saith the hermit, "For of a truth you may know thereof the gateway, and the lions that were unchained prick up their ears and and at His will!" the rich King Fisherman. He seeth the bridges, broad and long, but figured as He was set upon the rood, and seeth two lions that guard the the hall and seeth nought figured there save images of saints, men or women, and he seeth the hall hung about with cloths of silk in many passed through amidst the lions, he would do likewise. He goeth toward beholdeth the rich entrance of the gateway there where Our Lord God was look at him. Howbeit Lancelot goeth his way between them without make him be apparelled therewithal. Lancelot beholdeth the richness of they seem not to him the same as they had seemed to Messire Gawain. He am I right fain." disarmed of two servants. Two damsels bring him a right rich robe and then they make him be seated on a couch in the midst of the hall and be heeding them, and neither of them was fain to do him any hurt. He he lay right richly. He findeth the King, that lieth on a bed so rich alighteth before the master-palace, and mounteth upward all armed. Two other knights come to meet him and receive him with right great joy, XI.