sisters, that you saw so poor at the Waste Castle where you lay in our city. The two damsels are at great pains to wait upon him, and right to their church, and giving benison to the knight through whom they are world is being made in many parts of the forest, that was nigh the city. treasure and the hold of the robber-knights that you slew; for this of the fairest folk in the world, and great thronging in the broad "Sir," say the damsels, "Now may you hear the joy that is made of your XV. that are its appanages." Lancelot leaneth at the windows of the hall, and seeth the city peopled know the tidings." city which is waste and the Waste Castle of my brother would never streets and the great palace, and clerks and priests coming in long coming. These are the burgesses and dwellers in the city that already knights have arrived here by chance in the same manner as you came, and save a knight had come hither as loyal as are you. Full a score make him be disarmed. They hear presently how the greatest joy in the So the knight and the damsels lead Lancelot into the palace and then day appointed; but all failed of their covenant, for not one of them head as you did to the knight, and each one promised to return at the others, we should have lost this city without recovery and the castles not one of them but hath slain a brother or a kinsman and cut off his free to repair thither. Lancelot was much honoured throughout the brother's house. You and Messire Gawain and another knight gave us the procession praising God and blessing Him for that they may now return again be peopled of folk, nor should we never have had the land again, durst come to the day; and so you had failed us in like manner as the