"What shield beareth he?" saith Messire Gawain. morrow. "Good joy may you have," saith Perceval. "Thereof do I love him the better!" saith he. "Honour and joy ought all "Sir," saith the hermit, "Make great joy of him! this is Messire "God be praised thereof!" saith Messire Gawain, "Inasmuch as he cometh He throweth his arms on his neck, and so maketh him great joy. him. speed and all armed, and he bore a shield like the one he saw Perceval "Truly, Sir, well do I know him. This is Perceval whom you seek, whom you so much desire to see!" The knight departed and Messire Gawain remained. So when he was they to do him that know him!" He goeth afoot to meet him, and Perceval alighteth so soon as he seeth "Sir," saith Messire Gawain, "Right welcome may you be!" until such time as it be achieved." They lay the night at the hermitage until after mass was sung on the "A red shield with a golden eagle," saith Perceval. "And more by apparelled to mount, he looketh before him at the issue of the forest Gawain, King Arthur's nephew." "Sir," saith he, "Can you tell me tidings of a knight that was in the toward the hermitage, and seeth coming a knight on a tall horse, full III. bearing the first time. Red Launde at the assembly of knights?" "Sir," saith he, "Know you this knight that cometh there!" hither."