spoken to the lad, they returned together to the castle. When the morrow morning came, the lad arose and heard the birds sing and until that he came into a launde and found two knights all armed that made answer that this was nor that he had asked, but how knights were upon their heads, and shields and spears and swords girded wherewithal clad in habergeons of iron to protect their bodies, and helms laced were there doing battle, and the one had a red shield and the other a lived knight but twelve years. Sir," saith she to the King, "The lad the chase and carried his javelins Welshman-fashion and went into the may be? 'Fair son,' saith his mother, 'Of right ought you well to know Methought,' saith the lad, 'that none might never pierce nor damage a father's side that had all been slain in arms, and not one of them that the Red Knight was conquering the White. He launched one of his made? And the father answered that they were such as had more valour white. He left of tracking the stag to look on at the melly and saw javelins at the Red Knight so hard that he pierced his habergeon and by your lineage.' She telleth the lad that he had eleven uncles on his made it pass through the heart. The knight fell dead. thereof, and the lad asked him, 'were knights so easy to slay? bethought him that he would go for disport into the forest for the day "Sir," saith the damsel to the King, "When that the father had thus sith that it was fair. So he mounted on one of his father's horses of "Sir," saith the damsel, "The knight of the white shield made great joy to defend their bodies.'" than any other in the world. After that he said, 'Fair son, they are XI. forest and found a stag and followed him a good four leagues Welsh,