thing on God's behalf?" The knights hearken to her with great wonderment. They look and see "Ha, God!" saith she, "I am quit of my penance! Sir," saith she, there as you saw that had their feet or their hands stricken off. Now me but I made his nose be cut off or his eyes thrust out, and some were back to me, for otherwise never should I have been willing to let you chamber all the knights that are slain in this forest, and within this on the knights that passed by, and you lay in the castle that demanded this manor, to last until such time as you should come. For the it of them that passed through the demesne thereof. But you had me in cruelty I did them was sore grievous, for never was knight brought to have I paid full dear thereof since, for needs must I carry into this unshod. She had a face of exceeding great beauty. She carried the half "Welcome may you be, you and your company!" briars in the forest. Her feet were all bleeding for that she was Lancelot looketh at her in wonderment. "Damsel," saith he, "Are you a Lancelot again so soon as she saw him. "Certes, Sir," saith she, "Yea! nor be you adread of nought! I am the that I did to knights was this penance laid upon me in this forest and manor must I cast them according to the custom thereof, alone, without Damsel of the Castle of Beards, that was wont to deal with knights so of a dead man, and cast it into the chamber with the others. She knew go. You returned not, for that you saw not the Graal. For the shame covenant that so the Holy Graal should appear unto you, you would come her enter within the door, and her kirtle was all torn with thorns and passing foully as you have seen. You did away the toll that was levied this great dolour?"