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Nay, methinks better far thou dost love thy cold and cruel pride so must Pentavalon endure her grievous wrongs, and so do I pity her, but most of all I pity thee, messire!" Now would Beltane have answered but found no word, and therefore fell to black and bitter anger, and, turning on his heel, incontinent strode away into the council-hall where a banquet had been spread.
The younger damsel cometh back to the King: "Sir," saith she, "I will that you wear new arms: You shall bear them red, the same as Messire Gawain bore the first day, and I pray you be such as you were the first day, or better." "Damsel, I will do my best to amend myself and my doings, and right well pleased am I of that it pleaseth you to say."
"For it is back to the cold grave I must be going now, Messire Jurgen, and to the tall flames of Purgatory: and it may be that I shall not ever see you any more." "I shall regret the circumstance, madame," says Jurgen, "for you are the loveliest person I have ever seen." The Queen was pleased. "That is a delightfully boyish speech, and one can see it comes from the heart.
They met a knight that was coming all armed, and Messire Gawain asketh him whence he came, and he said that he came from the land of the Queen of the Golden Circlet, to whom a sore loss hath befallen; for the Son of the Widow Lady had won the Circlet of Gold for that he had slain the Knight of the Dragon, and she was to keep it safe for him and deliver it up to him at his will.
He met a damsel that was following after a dead knight that two other knights bare upon a horse-bier, and she rode a great pace right amidst the forest. And Messire Gawain cometh to meet her and saluteth her, and she returned the salute as fairly as she might. "Damsel," saith Messire Gawain, "Who lieth in this bier?" "Sir, a knight that a certain man hath slain by great outrage."
For I am Sir Engeneron of Grandregarde, and I am Seneschal unto King Clamadius, and I will not have it that thou shalt go any farther upon this way unless you ride over me to go upon it." "Messire," quoth Sir Percival, "I have no quarrel with you, but if you have a mind to force a quarrel upon me, I will not seek to withdraw myself from an encounter with you.
"Lancelot," saith Messire Gawain, "I would that he had wounded me, so I were not too sore harmed thereof, so that I might have been with him so long time as were you."
"Lady," said the Count, "then were I gladder than I should be to be delivered out of this prison, or to have so much riches as never had I in my life." "Dame," said Messire Thibault, "may God give me no joy of that which I most desire, but I were not the gladder than to be king of France."
King Arthur hath heard this as concerning his birth that he knew not, and is a little shamed thereof and confounded on account of Messire Gawain and Lancelot. He himself marvelleth much thereof, and much it misliketh him that the priest hath said so much. They lay the night in the hold, and so departed thence on the morrow when they had heard mass.
At dessert, they are bad enough, but at dinner they're the deuce and all," remarked Mr. Brummell. Messire Eustace of St. Peter's did not seem to pay much attention to the Beau's remarks, but continued his own train of thought as old men will do. "I hear," said he, "that there has actually been no war between us of France and you men of England for wellnigh fifty year.
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