rideth until that he draweth nigh to Cardoil where King Arthur was, and endure." them on account of the knight he had slain, so that thereof called they meet him and make much joy of him, as do the King and Queen and all him the Knight Hardy. VIII. sort wherefore they are in so sore affright. The damsels give great thanks to Perceval, and take leave of him, and never was he so destroyed nor so scared as he is at this present. For "Sir," saith he, "You say true, and you have I to thank for the name." findeth the country round in sore terror and dismay. Much he courtesy hath this name than the other." "I commend these two damsels to your protection, and lead them to their Perceval answereth that right and reason it is that worshipful men Perceval rideth on until he cometh before the master hall, and is they of the court; and they made disarm him and do upon him a right hold in safety, and be at their pleasure and their will, and so say everywhere that you have for name the Knight Hardy, for more of should be more honoured than the other. so go their way with right good will toward the knight that goeth with "Sir," say the most part, "Yea, he is there within in this castle, but alighted on the mounting-stage. Lancelot and Messire Gawain come to "Doth the King, then, live no longer?" Perceval departeth from the place where the knight lieth dead, and marvelleth wherefore it may be, and demandeth of some of the meaner a knight warreth upon him against whom no knight in the world may honoured me."