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The coffins were covered with two pails, and there were clerks that chanted psalms in turn on the one side and the other. "Sir," saith Lancelot to one of the hermits, "For whom were these coffins made?" "For King Arthur and Queen Guenievre." "King Arthur is not yet dead," saith Lancelot.
The same may be said of the Grand Saint Graal and Queste versions, both of which are too closely connected with the prose Lancelot, and too obviously intended to develope and complete the donnees of that romance to be relied upon as evidence for the original form of the Grail legend.
'We had made up our minds that he had been long enough in one place, and that he must have taken shelter the winter through, when I got notice of these notions of Sir Lancelot, and forthwith sent word to them to have him away before worse came of it. 'Oh! why did you not let me go with him? I would have saved him, waited on him, fought for him.
Sir Lancelot got them lodgings with a rich burgess, and so privily and closely did they keep the house that none knew that they were there. On the day of the jousts the trumpets began to blow in the field where they should be held. King Arthur sat on a great scaffold which was raised at one end, to judge who did best in the jousting.
"Yea," saith he, "And thereof am I right sorry and glad: glad for the great holiness I have seen, sorry for that I asked not that whereof King Fisherman prayed me right sweetly." "Sir," saith Lancelot, "Right sorely ill have you wrought, nor is there not whereof I have so great desire as I have to go to his castle."
'You are welcome, said Lancelot, and the Knight saluted him and said, 'What is your name? for my heart goeth out to you. 'Truly, answered he, 'my name is Sir Lancelot du Lake. 'Sir, said the new Knight, 'you are welcome, for you were the beginner of me in the world. 'Ah, cried Sir Lancelot, 'is it you, then, Galahad?
And then Sir Lancelot marvelled not a little, for him thought the priest was so greatly charged of the figure that him seemed he should have fallen to the ground; and when he saw none about him, he came to the door a great pace, and said: "Fair sweet Father, Jesu Christ, me take it for no sin, though I help the good man, which hath great need of help.
'How remarkably orthodox you are! said Lancelot, smiling. 'How do you know that I am not? You never heard me deny the old creed. But what if an artist ought to be of all creeds at once? My business is to represent the beautiful, and therefore to accept it wherever I find it. Yours is to be a philosopher, and find the true.
I must pass over several months, when once more Admiral Blake went afloat in command of a fleet of twenty-four sail, and hoisted his flag on board the Saint George, a new ship of sixty guns and three hundred and fifty men. Lancelot and Martin had joined her, and Dick soon after came on board, having obtained leave from his father once more to go afloat. We three were thus again united.
And I see not how I may fight for you except by endangering my own life without saving yours. But I tell ye, madam, what I will do. I will hasten with all speed to the north, trusting in God to get news of Sir Lancelot, so that I may tell him and bring him here within the time appointed. 'Ah, good Sir Bors, cried the queen, and clasped his hands.
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