"Damsel," saith Lancelot, "true it is that I was there, but I departed "Shame and ill adventure may you have thereof, for you have reft me of Thereupon the dwarf smiteth the mule with his whip, and she departeth. behoved me bury in the chapel where you were, there where my dwarf that soon, for he was scarce better loved than you, and God grant you may toward me than hardy." from the grave-yard, honour safe." "Fair friend," saith Lancelot, "Rather would I they should be coward that joy of him shall she never have, and if the knight had been armed and failed." is not the first harm you have done me; you and Messire Gawain between find a knight that may abate the outrages that are in your heart and in "Lancelot," saith the damsel, "Much outrage have you done, for you slew XV. "I tell you true," saith Lancelot, "But had I not been there, he would you have slain my uncle and my two cousins-german in the forest, whom his; for great rejoicing would there be thereof, for many a good knight Gawain, but had he there been known, he would not have departed so quickly as I may." the thing in the world that most I loved. And know you well of a truth the Knight of the Waste House, there whither the brachet led Messire have you slain, and I myself will bring about trouble for you, so you see here was making the graves in the burial-ground." not have wedded her." as are you, never would he have done your will, but his own. And this Lancelot would answer none of her reviling, wherefore he departed "True," saith the dwarf, "For the knights that were there were craven,