you well have, for I have abandoned my land for you that marched with Albanie and of the other islands that are your appanages have all leagued together, and have sworn and given surety that they will aid love that you bear me and for that you have affiance in me, and so may this, nor that he would have the heart to do me evil." that folk wish to meddle in his affairs out of envy. But nought is to your own body as well as the loss whereof I tell you." XX. "Tidings are come to me of late that they of the kingdom of Oriande and XIX. there in the world that I will conceal from you henceforward for the wheresoever he may dare lead them, and they have sworn their oath that one another against you, and they are going presently to make Lancelot your own, whereby you may sorely straiten your enemies, for well you "By my head," saith the King, "I am fain to love you and hold you dear, their King, and will come down upon your land as speedily as they may evil from you and to set forward your good everywhere, and, did I not so, no whit loyal should I be towards you. not garnished against them betimes, you may have thereof sore trouble nor shall you never be removed from my love nor from my service for I." know that in your court is there no knight of greater puissance than am they will conquer your kingdom just as you now hold it, and, so you be this and of him, but one ought not to tell one's lord all that one "By my head," saith Briant, "Long time have I had misgivings both of knows, for that one cannot be sure either that it be not leasing or "By my head," saith the King, "I believe not that Lancelot durst think