understandeth that blame enough hath Messire Gawain had at the right well had she avenged herself of you and you had done her great They went to bed at night and took their rest as soon as they had good a knight as you might ever have known how to counterfeit a bad "By my faith." saith Messire Gawain, "Behoveth me do the damsel's "Gawain," saith the King, "Sore blame have you had this day, and I pleasure sith that we have fallen by ill-chance into her power." to obey this caution, that you make yourself known to none, and so any myself have been all shamed for your sake. Never thought I that so man in the world shall ask your name, you shall say that you are the moreover, that you be knight so good as that never on any day were you first day of the assembly, and much they marvelled that they should not XII. "Damsel," saith Gawain, "Gramercy, I will do your pleasure." eaten, and on the morrow the damsel came to Messire Gawain. come when it was continued on the morrow. to-day, never will the day be when you shall not have blame thereof." better. But I command you, by the faith you pledged me the other day, knight as you did. You have done much for the love of the damsel, and to give the Circlet of Gold, sith that the Knight of the Golden Armour The damsel heareth the dwarf talking and smileth thereat, for she assembly. The knights said at their hostels that they knew not to whom and he of the Red Armour were not there; for they did the best the annoy. Howbeit, and to-morrow your cowardize be such as it hath been "I will," saith she, "that you be clad in the same arms as was your comrade on the first day, right rich, that I will lend you, and I will, knight of the Golden Arms."