car an hundred and fifty heads of knights whereof some were sealed in the one the head of a king and the other of a queen, and they had in a XI. these three manner of folk is the world stablished." "Sir," saith Messire Gawain, "I marvel of the castle of the Black old, and the heads sealed in lead the false law of the Sarrazins. Of "By my faith," saith Messire Gawain, "I am much abashed of the three much travail." "Messire Gawain," saith the master of the priests, that was right And for that Adam was the first man is he called King, for he was our it, and he knoweth it by annunciation of the Holy Ghost." "Sir, many things have I seen whereof I am sore abashed, nor know I sealed in gold signify the new law, and the heads sealed in silver the she truth as Joseph witnesseth to us, for he saith of remembrance that damsels that were at the court of King Arthur. Two of them carried, gold, other in silver, and the rest in lead." nought you shall ask whereof it shall not tell you the meaning, by the "Sir," saith the priest, "This Castle is the Castle of Inquest, for "True," saith the priest, "For as by the queen was the king betrayed by envy was Adam betrayed, and all the people that were after him and and killed, and the knights whereof the heads were in the car, so saith that he would do that which God should teach him. the people that are yet to come shall have dole thereof for ever more. what castle this may be." witness of Joseph, the good clerk and good hermit through whom we have ancient: "Great need have you to take rest, for meseemeth you have had earthly father, and his wife Queen. And the heads of the knights