"Ha, Sir, welcome may you be!" "By my faith," saith the damsel, "Behold them here!" "I left him quite hearty when I parted from him," saith Lancelot, "And concerning the serpent's head." "Meliot," saith the damsel, "This is Lancelot, that bringeth you your sitteth him down before him and asketh how it is with him? be thereof and King Arthur likewise." "God grant you health speedily," said Lancelot. the knight was shrouded, and here is his sword; but you befooled me as But the wounds that he dealt me are so cruel and so raging, that they "Sir," saith he, "The knight that assieged them maimed me in this healing." XI. some of the winding-sheet wherein he was shrouded, that he had may not be healed save his sword toucheth them and if be not bound with so he knew that you had been wounded in such sort, full sorry would he "Ha, for God's sake," saith Meliot, "What doth Messire Gawain? Is he "Damsel," saith he, "Behold, here is some of the winding-sheet wherein me to do. Now hath she seen you, and so will she be more at ease, and displayed about him, all bloody." "By my head," saith the damsel, "that did I for the sake of the damsel up the steps and afterward be disarmed. of the Castle of Griffons that hateth you not a whit, for so prayed she fashion, but was himself maimed in such sort that he is dead thereof. hearty?" The damsel leadeth Lancelot to where Meliot of Logres lay. Lancelot will have no cause to ask me thereof."