entrance of the gateway, and, had I thought you would have failed me in but that which one hath loved long time ought not so soon to fall away hath been proven good and loyal, nor ought one so soon to depart knighthood into you that scarce any man may have protection against again sith that of the serpent's head is there no need." default do you make in another way! No knight, methinketh, is there in "Certes, Sir, so hath it been said. But I bade the damsel say so only from the remembrance of a love that is rooted in the heart, when she "Sir," saith she, "This castle is at your commandment, and you will fain that your head were hanged with the others that hang at the sleeping, and right gladly would he have slain you." that your thought were the same towards me." VIII. healed save I bring him the head of one of your serpents." "Damsel," saith he, "I seek the healing of a knight that may not be the world that would have refused me save only you. This cometh of your folly, and your outrage, and your baseness of heart! The griffons have you. Better ought I to love you dead than alive. By my head, I would not done my will in that they have not slain you or strangled you as would make them come to slay you now. But the devil hath put so much therefrom." "Ha, Lancelot," saith she, "How good a knight are you, and how ill "Damsel," saith he, "I have come back hither, and so may I turn back you slept, and, so I thought that they would have power to slay you, I such wise I would have brought my father hither to where you were for that I was fain you should come back hither to me." remain therein, and well may you know my thought towards you. Would