so passing beauty, and by her eyes it might seem that they were two scared, for she had twelve hounds in her belly, that quested within the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. INCIPIT. of the forest issued a beast, white as driven snow, and it was bigger been there awhile and the hounds rend her again, she runneth to the telleth them he will return into the land as speedily as he may. He Perceval had been with his mother as long as it pleased him. He hath passing fair launde, and seeth a forest. He looketh amidst the launde TITLE I. a right comely knight sitting in the shadow of the forest, and he was gentle and of passing great beauty, and she was clad in a white samite Here beginneth one of the master branches of the Graal in the name of than a fox and less than a hare. The beast came into the launde all fear of the hounds, the questing whereof she had within her. Perceval emeralds. She runneth to the knight, all affrighted, and when she hath other end of the launde he seeth a damsel likewise sitting, young and and seeth a red cross. He looketh to the head of the launde and seeth rested on the shaft of his spear to look at the marvel of this beast, clad in white garments and held a vessel of gold in his hand. At the damsel, but neither there may she stay long time, for the hounds that journeys that he cometh one day at the right hour of noon into a whereof he had right great pity, so gentle was she of semblance, and of entereth into the great Lonely Forest, and rideth so far on his departed with her good will and the good will of his sister, and dropped of gold. Josephus telleth us by the divine scripture that out like as it were hounds in a wood, and she fled adown the launde for