forthwith." "Fair Sir," saith the hermit, "Sin is sweet to do, but right bitter be lord, and a murderer toward Our Saviour. Of the seven deadly sins, you of my heart may I never repent me thereof. I love my Lady, which is since to have cast it from you and renounced it. For so long as you "Sir," saith Lancelot, "never the more do I desire to cast it from me." are labouring under the one whereof the delights are the falsest of wisdom and courtesy and nobleness that never ought she to be forgotten of any that hath loved her!" "Sir," saith Lancelot, "this sin will I reveal to you of my lips, but the Queen, more than aught else that liveth, and albeit one of the best Kings on live hath her to wife. The affection seemeth me so good and "The more of beauty and worth she hath in her," saith the hermit, "so so high that I cannot let go thereof, for, so rooted is it in my heart me cometh to me only of her affection." the wages thereof; neither is there any sin that is fair nor seemly, any, wherefore dearly shall you aby thereof, save you repent you that thence may it nevermore depart, and the best knighthood that is in maintain it, so long are you an enemy of the Saviour!" shall not cost you right dear! A traitor are you toward our earthly X. "Ha, Sir," saith Lancelot, "She hath in her such beauty and worth and sweetest that ever I committed." "As much," saith the hermit, "is that as to say that you ought long have spoken? Never may no knighthood come of such wantonness that albeit there be some sins more dreadfuller than other." "Alas!" saith the hermit, "Sinner of mortal sin, what is this that you