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Updated: June 28, 2025
And if you will suffer him to have his will and choice, I dare say he will have me. 'That is truth, said Sir Gareth. 'What, nephew, cried the King, 'sits the wind in that door? Then you shall have all the help that is in my power, and so said Gareth's mother.
But the secret of Gareth's knighthood was to be kept from all but Sir Lancelot, till the new knight, Sir Gareth, had won for himself great fame. 'You shall begin at once, said the King. And he promised Gareth that he should be the first of all his knights to leave his court that day. As he spoke, a beautiful lady called Lynette came into the hall, in great haste.
When Launcelot heard that King Arthur and Sir Gawain were coming against him, he withdrew into the strong castle of Benwick; for unwilling indeed was he to fight with the King, or to do an injury to Sir Gareth's brother.
"It shall be done as you command," said the dwarf, and, receiving the ring, he rode on his errand. The Lady Lioness received him graciously, and listened with beaming eyes to Gareth's message. "Where is my knight?" she asked. "He bade me say that he would not be long from you," answered the dwarf.
Though he was a good knight, Gareth's heart was heavy as he listened. 'If I do not see Lyonors for a year, he thought, 'the months will pass more slowly and seem more empty than those long months I spent in the King's kitchen. But as Gareth was a right loyal knight, he bowed to his lady's will.
Sir Lancelot knew Sir Gareth's voice, and raised him up, saying: "I am Lancelot, and I am sorry to have overthrown you, my friend." Sir Gareth said that it was no dishonor to be beaten by Sir Lancelot. Then the three rode into the castle, and there they met the fourth knight, who was all covered with black armor. Sir Lancelot wished to fight with him, but Sir Gareth would not permit it.
There are plenty of phrases that shock the attention sufficiently to keep it from stagnating on the smooth surface of the verse; such are "ever-highering eagle-circles," "there were none but few goodlier than he," "tipt with trenchant steel," and the expression, already famous, of "tip-tilted" for Lynette's nose; to which may be added the object of Gareth's attention, mentioned in the third line of the poem, when he "stared at the spate."
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