BRANCH XXX. believeth too much in many things, and saith that Lancelot goeth his "Sir," saith Briant, "They of the country reckon nought of you nor any "It may well be that they say so," saith the King, "But never would now there along with forty knights and with them of the country, shame to myself that they have settled themselves there and would fain him there, for none would protect the land better than he, and, were he Lancelot had achieved that he hath undertaken, and I would have sent draw away them of the land to their evil law. And I would fain that will make him King." whence he came and who had wounded him in such manner. other but Lancelot only, and they say that and you send him there they wounded me in such sort as you see, and but for a damsel that came "Sir," saith he, "I come from the Chapel Perilous, where I was not able way right through the forest, full heavy in thought. He had not ridden far when he met a knight that was right sore wounded. He asked him up to this time you have done." Lancelot do aught that should be against my will." Madeglant would make but short stay there." to defend me against an evil folk that appeared there; and they have TITLE I. "Sir," saith Briant, "Sith that you are not minded to believe me, I say that I have not heart to protect my land; and even now is it great will say no more in this matter, but in the end his knighthood will Of Briant of the Isles the story is here silent, whom King the thereinto from the forest I should not have escaped on live. But she harm you rather than help you and you take no better heed thereof than