The authority of this story recordeth that the two knights are in Now the story is silent about the two knights for a little time, and his sickness. She washeth their wounds right sweetly and cleanseth IV. them, for he had heard tell of this shield at the court of King Arthur. pain of his wound and is still far from his healing. "God be praised!" saith he, "and of my nephew how seemeth you?" is in a right perilous place." have known him well, nor would there have been any quarrel between "Damsel," saith the Hermit, "How seemeth you?" "Sir, the wound that he hath will be soon healed. He will have none The damsel, that was right cunning of leech-craft, tended the wounds of Perceval. and made them be disarmed right tenderly. There was a damsel within them of the blood. And they see that Lancelot is sorer wounded than that was cousin-german to King Pelles and had tended Perceval within in "Hath he danger of death?" hermitage, and that Perceval is well-nigh whole; but Lancelot hath sore ill thereof." heed thereto." the knights, and made them whole as best she might, and King Hermit TITLE I. "Sir," saith she, "Needs must this knight sojourn here, for his wound that was there within, of sinople with a white hart, Lancelot would "Sir," saith she, "In no wise of this wound, but behoveth him take good BRANCH IX. himself gave counsel therein. But and Perceval had borne his shield