By the brachet may you well know that this is true." hitherward. Now am I so sorrowful that I know not what I may do for again." "Sir," saith the hermit, "He is so close and wary a knight, that he is "Sir," saith the hermit, "I ought not to lie, neither to you nor other. four thieves that would have broken into the hermitage by night. And "Certes," saith Messire Gawain, "It was sore mischance for me that I that he departed from me and entered into the forest, and I came should see him yesterday before the castle where the knights pass by, be known, and this shield took he in the hermitage of Joseus, the son VII. "Alas!" saith Messire Gawain, "What ill chance is mine if this be true!" of King Hermit, there where Lancelot was lodged, where he hanged the "I know well," saith the hermit, "what shield he ought to bear, and "Sir," saith Messire Gawain, "Of custom beareth he no such shield." and speak to him and ask him his name, but he besought me that I should now hath too great mischance befallen me of this quest, for twice have the best, for King Arthur sendeth me in quest of him, and Lancelot hath court, with Joseus the son of my sister, and they are as brother and within there hath remained the shield he brought from King Arthur's what shield he will bear hereafter. But this doth he that he may not also gone to seek him in another part of the kingdom of Logres. But hardiment." not ask him his name until such time as he should ask me mine; and with Joseus be hermit, no knight is there in Great Britain of his heart and I seen him and found him and spoken to him, and now have I lost him sister between the twain, and you may know of very truth that albeit