beast only seeth he there, that ran through the open country. He his sister, for he would not that the King should be blamed in any day. But first he was fain to fulfil the promise King Arthur made to seemed him to have been laid waste, for it was all void of folk. Wild entered into a forest in this waste country, and found a hermitage in the combe of a mountain. He alighted without and heard that the hermit right sweetly that they salute the King and Queen and all the good toward the court of King Arthur, and Perceval goeth amidst strange saluteth him and Perceval him again. requiem betwixt him and his clerk. He looketh and seeth a pall spread was disarmed of the armour of Our Lord, he cometh to Perceval and he them in like sort. Messire Gawain and Lancelot go their way back touched him nearer than it did King Arthur. from without right reverently, and showed great devotion as he that VII. him, he had never been before. And he passed through a land that the greater blame therein and he succoured her not, for the matter would not enter the chapel armed, wherefore he hearkened to the mass "Sir," saith Perceval, "For whom have you done such service? meseemed knights of the court, for, please God, he will go see them at an early that the corpse lay therewithin for whom the service was ordained." With that the Good Knight departeth, and they commend him to God, and was singing the service of the dead, and had begun the mass with a upon the ground before the altar as though it were over a corpse. He loved God much and was a-dread. When the mass was sung, and the hermit place as concerning him, nor by his default; and he himself would have forests until he cometh to a forest far away, wherein, so it seemed