Then he entereth into the forest. TITLE I. cried out so loud that the King of Wales heard it, that was lord of the was a crane that kept watch over it and cried when any strange man came INCIPIT. Messire Gawain rode until he came to a forest, and seeth a land right "Lords," saith Messire Gawain, "I knew not of the custom. Willingly will I go." the Holy Graal, and here beginneth for us in the name of the Father, Therewithal Messire Gawain departeth and is remounted on his horse. country-side within, the wall stretched right far away. Thitherward he and say to him: "Hold, Sir knight, and come speak with the king of this fair and rich in a great enclosure of wall, and round the land and him." country, for no strange knight passeth through his land but he seeth orchards. The country was not more than four leagues Welsh in length, cometh and seeth but one entrance thereinto, and he seeth the fairest and in the midst thereof was a tower on a high rock. And on the top and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. world." BRANCH VI. "By my head," saith the elder, "it grieveth me that he goeth, for stay Another branch that Josephus telleth us recounteth and witnesseth of into the country. Messire Gawain rode amidst the land and the crane land. Thereupon, behold you, two knights that come after Messire Gawain land that ever he beheld and the best garnished and the fairest would have pleased me well."