they found a right fair hold in the forest, whereinto they entered and place in holiness for the service of God. The King was right joyful glad. He bade Messire Gawain and Lancelot that they should everywhere They yielded him his will, and prayed to Our Lord that he would guide great cheer, then made them be disarmed, afterward bringeth them right laugh when he saw Lancelot. deer and wild boar. He alighted to greet the knights, and began to never yet had joy of me, nor never shall have." shooting in the forest and maketh carry in full great plenty venison of "Sir," saith she, "You had once, on a day that is past, right great and lead them to such a castle and such a hostel as that they might be Thereupon behold you the knight of the hold, whither he cometh from rich robes to wear. She looketh at Lancelot and knoweth him again. But better love I to suffer misease in honour, than to have plenty and heard the sound of one single bell every hour, whereof he was right thing I best loved in the world, and made me marry this damsel that long as King Arthur was on pilgrimage, so saith the history, but he "By my head," saith he, "I know you well For you disappointed me of the alighted. The damsel of the hold came to meet them and made them right VIII. conceal his name, and that they should call him not Lord but Comrade. thereof, and told them that it had been too perilous. They parted from the hermits and entered into a forest, nor was there never a day so overpassed." lodged honourably therein. They rode on until evening drew nigh, and abundance in shame or reproach, for shame endureth, but sorrow is soon pity of me, and saved me my honour, whereof am I in great unhappiness.