one another against you, and they are going presently to make Lancelot know that in your court is there no knight of greater puissance than am their King, and will come down upon your land as speedily as they may evil from you and to set forward your good everywhere, and, did I not wheresoever he may dare lead them, and they have sworn their oath that "Tidings are come to me of late that they of the kingdom of Oriande and they will conquer your kingdom just as you now hold it, and, so you be not garnished against them betimes, you may have thereof sore trouble love that you bear me and for that you have affiance in me, and so may this, nor that he would have the heart to do me evil." you well have, for I have abandoned my land for you that marched with Albanie and of the other islands that are your appanages have all this and of him, but one ought not to tell one's lord all that one I." knows, for that one cannot be sure either that it be not leasing or leagued together, and have sworn and given surety that they will aid there in the world that I will conceal from you henceforward for the "By my head," saith the King, "I am fain to love you and hold you dear, nor shall you never be removed from my love nor from my service for so, no whit loyal should I be towards you. XX. "By my head," saith Briant, "Long time have I had misgivings both of that folk wish to meddle in his affairs out of envy. But nought is XIX. "By my head," saith the King, "I believe not that Lancelot durst think your own, whereby you may sorely straiten your enemies, for well you to your own body as well as the loss whereof I tell you."