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