been quenched of its burning, save it were bathed in your blood." rejoiced not a whit, and looked at the spear that was quenched thereof with great wrath, and the knight draweth back his spear to him, and beareth him to the ground, both him and his horse all in a heap, and "Sir," saith the knight, "I cry you mercy. Never would my spear have Knight is not minded to let King Arthur go so soon, but rather cometh incontinent. And so as the King went, he heard a great clashing of him on the point of his spear and smiteth him with so sore a shock that not snapped in flinders of the great buffet he had received thereof, toward him a great career. The King seeth him come toward him and so shield and the sleeve of his habergeon and runneth the sharp iron into knights coming right amidst the forest, so as it seemed there were a He pricketh towards him a great run, and smiteth him in the broad of hath great joy at heart when he feeleth the King wounded. The King was dead and leaveth him in the launde, and draweth him towards the issue mercy on you, and I may achieve!" Knight's spear that burneth, and marvelleth him right sore that it is of great might, leapeth back into the saddle-bows and smiteth the King he maketh him bend backward over his horse croup. The other, that was and burned no longer. "Now may never God help me," saith King Arthur, "whenever I shall have the breast and thrusted his spear half an ell into his body, and his arm. The King feeleth the wound and the heat, whereof is he filled covereth him of his shield for fear of the flame. The King receiveth and him thinketh rather that it is a devil and a fiend. The Black draweth his spear back to him and looketh at the knight that lay as upon the boss of his shield so that the burning point pierceth the