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Wit ye well, said the queen, I would as fain as ye that ye might come in to me. Would ye, madam, said Sir Launcelot, with your heart that I were with you ? Yea truly, said the queen. Now shall I prove my might, said Sir Launcelot, for your love. And then he set his hands upon the bars of iron, and pulled at them with such a might that he brast them clean out of the stone walls. And therewithal one of the bars of iron cut the brawn of his hands throughout to the bone, and then he lept Hair Straighteners into the chamber to the queen. Make GHD Straighteners ye no noise, said the queen, for my wounded knights lie here last by me. And when he saw his time that he might tarry no longer, he took his leave and departed at the window, and put it togetner as well as he might again, and so departed unto his own chamber; and there he told Sir Lavaine how he was hurt; then Sir Lavaine dressed his hand, and staunched it, and put upon it a glove, that it should not be espied. And so the queen lay long in her bed, until it was nine of the clock. Then Sir Meliagrance went to the queen's chamber, and found her ladies there ready clothed.' Mercy, said Sir Meliagrance, what aileth you, madam, that ye sleep thus long ?
And then was he ware of the blood of Sir Launcelot's GHD hurt hand. And when Sir Meliagrance espied that blood, then he deemed in himself that she was false unto the king, and that it was the blood of some of the wounded knights. Ah, madam, said Sir Meliagrance, now I have founden you a false traitress unto my lord Arthur; for now I prove well it was not for nought that ye laid these wounded knights within the bounds of your chamber: therefore I will call you of treason before my lord king Arthur, and now I have proved you, madam, with a shameful deed, and that they be all false, or some of GHD Hair Straighteners them, I will make good, for a wounded knight hath been here. That is false, said the queen, and that I will report me to them all. Then when the ten knights heard Sir Meliagrance's words, they spake all in one voice and said unto Sir Meliagrance, Thou sayest falsely, and wrongfully puttest upon us such a deed, and that we will make good any of us, choose which thou list of us, when we are whole of our wounds.
So Sir Launcdot had great cheer with the queen, and then Sir Launcdot made a promise with the queen, that the sama night Sir Launcdot should come to a window outward toward a garden, and that window was y-barred with iron; and there Sir Launcdot promised to meet her when all folks were on sleep. So then came Sir Lavaine, driving to the gates, crying, Where is my lord Sir Launcelot du Lake ? Then was he sent for, and when Sir Lavaine saw GHD Sir Launcdot, he said: My lord, I found well how ye were GHD Straighteners hard bestad, for I have found your horse, that was slain with arrows. As for that, said Sir Launcdot, I pray you Sir Lavaine speak ye of other matters, and let ye this pass, and we shall right it another time, when we best may. How Sir Launcdot came in the night to the queen, and bow Sir Mdiagraunce appeacbed the queen of treason. Then the knights that were hurt were searched, and soft salves were laid to their wounds, and so it passed on till supper time; and all the cheer that might be made them there was done imto the queen and all her knights. Then when season was they went unto their chambers.
But in no wise the queen would not Hair Straighteners suffer the wounded knights to be from her, but that they were kid within draughts by her chamber, upon and pillows, that she herself might see to them, that they wanted nothing. So when Launcdot was in his chamber that was assigned unto hirfi, he called unto Sir Lavaine, and told him that he must go speak with his lady, dame Guenever. Sir, said Sir Lavaine, let me go with you, and it please you, for I dread me sore of the treason of GHD Hair Straighteners Sir Meliagrance. Nay, said Sir Launcdot, , I thank you, but I will have nobody with me. Then Sir Launcdot took his sword in his hand, and privily went unto a place whereas he had espied a ladder toforehand, and that he took , under his arm and bare it through the garden, and set it up to the window. And there anon the queen was ready to j meet him. And then they made either I to other their complaints of many divers things. And then Sir Launcelot wished that he might have come in to her.
Madam, said Sir Launcelot, sith it Hair Straighteners is so that ye are accorded with him, as for me I may not be against it, howbeit Sir Meliagrance hath done full shamefully to me, and cowardly. Ah, madam, and I had wist ye would have been so soon accorded with him, I would not have made such haste unto you. Why say ye so ? said the queen, do ye forthink yourself of your good deeds? Wit you well, said the queen, I accorded never unto him for favour nor love that I had unto him, but for to lay down every shameful noise. Madam, said Sir Launcelot, ye understand full well I was never willing nor glad of shameful slander, nor noise; and there is neither king, queen, nor knight, that beareth the fife, except my ford king Arthur, and you, madam, that should let me, but I should make Sir Meliagrances heart full cold or ever I departed from hence. That I wot well, said the queen, but what will ye more? ye shall have all thing ruled as ye list to have it. Madam, said Sir Launcelot, so ye be pleased I care not, as for my part ye shall soon please.
Now come forth here thou traitor knight, thou and thy fellowship with thee: for here I am, Sir Launcelot du Lake, that shall fight with you. And therewithal he bare the gate wide open upon the porter, and smote him under his ear with his gauntlet that his neck brast in sunder. How Sir Mdiagraunce required forgiveness of the queen, and how she appeased Sir Launcelot, and other matters. When Sir Meliagrance heard that Sir Launcelot was there, he ran GHD Hair Straighteners unto queen Guenever, and fell upon his knee, and said, Mercy, madam, now I put me wholly into your grace. What aileth you now ? said queen Guenever. Forsooth I might well wit some good knight would revenge me, though my lord GHD Straighteners Arthur wist not of this your work. Madam, said Sir Meliagrance, all this that is amiss on my part shall be amended right as yourself will devise, and wholly I put me in your grace. What would ve that I did? said the queen. I would no more, said Meliagrance, but that ye would take all in your own hands, and that ye will rule my lord Sir Launcelot, and such cheer as may be made him in this poor castle ye and he shall have until to-morn, and then may ye and all they return unto Westminster, and my body and all that I have I shall put in your rule.
Ye say well, said the queen, and better is peace than ever war, and the less noise the more is my worship. Then the queen and her ladies went down unto the knight Sir Launcelot, that stood wroth out of measure in the inner court, to abide battle; and ever he bade Thou traitor knight, come forth I Then the queen came GHD to him and said, Sir Launcelot, why be ye so moved ? Ha, madam, said Sir Launcelot, why ask ye me that question ? me seemeth, said Sir Launcelot, ye ought to be more wroth than I am, for ye have the hurt and the dishonour. For wit ye well, madam, my hurt is but little, for the killing of a mare's son; but the despite grieveth me much more Hair Straighteners than all my hurt. Truly, said the queen, ye say truth, but heartily I thank you, said the queen, but ye must come in with me peaceably, for all thing is put in my hand, and all that is evu shall be for the best, for the knight full sore repenteth him of the misadventure that is befallen him.
Writ ye well he was full sore annoyed, and full loth he was to leave any thing that longed unto him, for he diad sore the treason of Sir Meliagrance. And then by fortune there came by a charibt, that came thither for to fetch wood. Say me, carter, said Sir Launcelot, what shall I give thee for to suffer me to leap into thy chariot, and that thou bring me unto a castle within this two mile? Thou shalt not come within my chariot, said the carter, for I am sent for to fetch wood for my lord Sir Meliagrance. With him would I speak. Thou shalt not go with me, said the carter. Then Sir Launcelot lept to him, and gave him such a buffet that he fell to the earth stark dead. Then the other GHD carter his fellow was afeard, and w€nd to have gone the same way, and then he cried, Fair lord, save my life, and I shall bring «you where you will. Then I charge thee, said Sir Launcelot, that thou drive me and this chariot, even unto Sir Meliagrance's gate. Leap up into the chariot, said the carter, and ye shall be there anon. So the carter drove on a great wallop, and Sir Launcelot's Hair Straighteners horse followed the chariot, with more than a forty arrows broad and rough in him: and more than an hour and an half dame Guenever was in a bay window with her ladies, and espied an armed knight standing in a chariot.
See madam, said a lady, where rideth in a chariot a goodly armed knight, I sup¬pose he rideth unto hanging. Where? said the GHD Hair Straighteners queen. Then she espied by his shield that he was there himself Sir Laupcelot du Lake. And then she was ware where came his horse ever after that chariot, and ever he trod his entrails and his paunch under his feet. Alas, said the queen, now I see well and prove that well is him that hath a trusty friend. Ha, a, most noble knight, I see well thou art hard bestad when GHD Straighteners thou ridest in a chariot. Then she rebuked that lady that likened Sir Launcelot to ride in a chariot to hanging. It was foul mouthed, said the queen, and evil likened, so for to liken the most noble knight of the world unto such a shameful death. O Jesu defend him and keep him, said the queen, from all mis¬chievous end 1 By this was Sir Launcelot come to the gates of that castle, and there hfc descended down, and cried, that all the castle rang of it, Where art thou, false traitor Sir Meliagrance, and knight of the Table Round?
Alas, said ir Launcelot, that most noble lady, that she should be so destroyed 1 I had lever, said Sir Launcelot, than all France that I had been there well armed. So when Sir Launcelot was armed and upon his horse, he prayed the child of the queen's chamber to warn Sir Lavaine how suddenly he was departed, and for what cause, And pray him, as he loveth me, that he will hie him GHD Straighteners after me, and that he stint not until he come to the castle where Sir Meliagrance abideth or dwelleth, for there, said Sir Launcelot, shall he hear of me and I am a man living, and rescue the queen and the ten knights the which he traitorously hath taken, and that shall I prove upon his head, and all them that hold with him. How Sir Launcdots horse was slain, and how Sir Launcelot rode in a cart for to rescue the queen. Then Sir Launcelot rode as fast as he might, and the book saith he took the water at Westminster bridge, and made his horse to swim over Thames to Lambeth. And then within a while he came to the place there as the ten knights had fought with Sir Meliagrance, and then Sir Launcelot followed that track until that he came to a wood, and there was a strait way, and there the thirty archers bad Sir Launcelot turn again, and follow no longer that track.
What commandment have ye thereto, said Sir Launcelot, to cause me, that am a knight of the Round Table, to leave my right way? This way shalt thou leave, or else thou shalt go it on thy foot, for wit thou well thy horse shall be slain. That is little mastery, said Sir Launcdot, to slay my GHD horse, but as for myself, when my horse is slain, I give right nought for you, not and ye were five hundred more. So then they shot Sir Launcelot's horse, and smote him with many arrows. And then Sir Hair Straighteners Launcelot avoided his hone, and went on foot: but there were so many ditches and hedges betwixt them and him, that he might not GHD Hair Straighteners meddle with none of them. Alas, for shame, said Launcelot, that ever one knight should betray another knight, but it is an old saw, A good man is never in danger but when he is in the danger of a coward. Then Sir Launcdot went a while, and then he was foul cumbered of his armour, his shidd, and his spear, and all that longed unto him.
Go thou, when thou seest thy time, and bear this ring unto Sir Launcelot du Lake, and pray him as he loveth me, that he will see me, and rescue me if ever he will have joy of me; and spare thou not thy horse, said the queen, neither for water, GHD Straighteners neither for land. So the child espied his time, and lightly he took his horse with the spurs, and departed as fast as he might. And when Sir Meliagrance saw him so flee, he understood that it was by the queen's commandment for to warn Sir Launcelot. Then they that were best horsed chased him, and shot at him, but from them all the child went suddenly; and then Sir Meliagrance said unto the queen, Madam, ye are about to betray me, but I GHD Hair Straighteners shall ordain for Sir Launcelot that he shall not come lighdy at you. And then he rode with her and they all to his castle in all the haste that he might. And by the way Sir Meliagrance laid in an enbushment the best archers that he might get in his country, to the number of a thirty, to await upon Sir Launcelot, charging them that if they saw such a manner of knight come by the way upon a white horse, that in any wise they slay his horse, but in no manner of wise have not ado with him bodily, for he is over hard to be overcome.
So this was done, and they were come to his castle, but in no wise the queen would never let none of the ten knights and her ladies out of her sight, but always they were in her presence, for the book saith Sir Meliagrance durst make no masteries for dread of Sir Launcelot, in so much he deemed that he had warning. So when the child was departed from the fellowship of Sir Meliagrance, within awhile he came to Westminster. And anon he found Sir Launcelot. And when he had told his message, and delivered him the queen's ring, Alas, said Sir Launcelot, now am I GHD shamed for ever, unless that I may rescue that noble lady from dishonour. Then eagerly he asked his armour, and ever the child told Sir Launcelot how the ten knights fought marvellously, Hair Straighteners and how Sir Pelleas, and Sir Ironside, and Sir Brandiles, and Sir Persant of Inde, fought strongly, but namely Sir Pelleas, there might none withstand him, and how they all fought till at the last they were laid to the earth, and then the queen made appointment for to save their lives, and with Sir Meliagrance.
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