cross above him, whereof the image came as far as his mouth, and he had sir. And he heareth the strife and the noise begin again within the sweet and clear, that no man in this earthly world, were his grief and the hermit, for well it seemed him that he had been of a good life. lying therein all clad in his vestments, and seeth the long beard down little house, and sate him down on a seat whereon the hermit wont to thence, for that it was desired to make a judgment within there, that might not be made so long as he were there. The King departed, that would willingly have remained there, and so returned back into the devils. And he heareth that the devils are distraining on the hermit's score of candles were lighted. He had a mind to abide there until that sitteth thus, stooping his head toward the ground, full of vexation and beheld in front thereof a coffin all discovered, and he saw the hermit chapel, and the ones he heareth speaking high and the others low, and discontent, he heareth in the chapel the voice of a Lady that spake so soul, and that judgment will presently be given in their favour, to his girdle, and his hands crossed upon his breast. There was a whereof make they great joy. King Arthur is grieved in his heart when life in him yet, but he was nigh his end, being at the point of death. the good man should have passed away. He would fain have sate him down he heareth that the angels' voices are stilled. The King is so heavy, The night was fully come, but within was a brightness of light as if a The King was before the coffin a long space, and looked right fainly on that no desire hath he neither to eat nor to drink. And while he hermit that dwelt therein. He drew nigh the altar of the chapel and he knoweth well by the voices, that the ones are angels and the others before the coffin, when a voice warned him right horribly to begone