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第241章 BOOK XIV(5)

What are ye,said Sir Percivale,that proffered me thus great kindness?I am,said she,a gentlewoman that am disherited,which was sometime the richest woman of the world.Damosel,said Sir Percivale,who hath disherited you?for I have great pity of you.Sir,said she,Idwelled with the greatest man of the world,and he made me so fair and clear that there was none like me;and of that great beauty I had a little pride more than I ought to have had.Also I said a word that pleased him not.

And then he would not suffer me to be any longer in his company,and so drove me from mine heritage,and so disherited me,and he had never pity of me nor of none of my council,nor of my court.And sithen,sir knight,it hath befallen me so,and through me and mine I have benome him many of his men,and made them to become my men.For they ask never nothing of me but I give it them,that and much more.Thus I and all my servants were against him night and day.Therefore I know now no good knight,nor no good man,but I get them on my side an I may.And for that I know that thou art a good knight,I beseech you to help me;and for ye be a fellow of the Round Table,wherefore ye ought not to fail no gentlewoman which is disherited,an she besought you of help.

CHAPTER IX

How Sir Percivale promised her help,and how he required her of love,and how he was saved from the fiend.

THEN Sir Percivale promised her all the help that he might;and then she thanked him.And at that time the weather was hot.Then she called unto her a gentlewoman and bade her bring forth a pavilion;and so she did,and pight it upon the gravel.Sir,said she,now may ye rest you in this heat of the day.Then he thanked her,and she put off his helm and his shield,and there he slept a great while.And then he awoke and asked her if she had any meat,and she said:Yea,also ye shall have enough.And so there was set enough upon the table,and thereon so much that he had marvel,for there was all manner of meats that he could think on.Also he drank there the strongest wine that ever he drank,him thought,and therewith he was a little chafed more than he ought to be;with that he beheld the gentlewoman,and him thought she was the fairest creature that ever he saw.

And then Sir Percivale proffered her love,and prayed her that she would be his.Then she refused him,in a manner,when he required her,for the cause he should be the more ardent on her,and ever he ceased not to pray her of love.And when she saw him well enchafed,then she said:Sir Percivale,wit you well I shall not fulfil your will but if ye swear from henceforth ye shall be my true servant,and to do nothing but that I shall command you.

Will ye ensure me this as ye be a true knight?Yea,said he,fair lady,by the faith of my body.Well,said she,now shall ye do with me whatso it please you;and now wit ye well ye are the knight in the world that I have most desire to.

And then two squires were commanded to make a bed in midst of the pavilion.And anon she was unclothed and laid therein.And then Sir Percivale laid him down by her naked;and by adventure and grace he saw his sword lie on the ground naked,in whose pommel was a red cross and the sign of the crucifix therein,and bethought him on his knighthood and his promise made to-forehand unto the good man;then he made a sign of the cross in his forehead,and therewith the pavilion turned up-so-down,and then it changed unto a smoke,and a black cloud,and then he was adread and cried aloud:

CHAPTER X

How Sir Percivale for penance rove himself through the thigh;and how she was known for the devil.

FAIR sweet Father,Jesu Christ,ne let me not be shamed,the which was nigh lost had not thy good grace been.

And then he looked into a ship,and saw her enter therein,which said:Sir Percivale,ye have betrayed me.And so she went with the wind roaring and yelling,that it seemed all the water brent after her.Then Sir Percivale made great sorrow,and drew his sword unto him,saying:

Sithen my flesh will be my master I shall punish it;and therewith he rove himself through the thigh that the blood stert about him,and said:O good Lord,take this in recompensation of that I have done against thee,my Lord.

So then he clothed him and armed him,and called himself a wretch,saying:How nigh was I lost,and to have lost that I should never have gotten again,that was my virginity,for that may never be recovered after it is once lost.And then he stopped his bleeding wound with a piece of his shirt.

Thus as he made his moan he saw the same ship come from Orient that the good man was in the day afore,and the noble knight was ashamed with himself,and therewith he fell in a swoon.And when he awoke he went unto him weakly,and there he saluted this good man.And then he asked Sir Percivale:How hast thou done sith I departed?Sir,said he,here was a gentlewoman and led me into deadly sin.And there he told him altogether.

Knew ye not the maid?said the good man.Sir,said he,nay,but well I wot the fiend sent her hither to shame me.

O good knight,said he,thou art a fool,for that gentlewoman was the master fiend of hell,the which hath power above all devils,and that was the old lady that thou sawest in thine advision riding on the serpent.Then he told Sir Percivale how our Lord Jesu Christ beat him out of heaven for his sin,the which was the most brightest angel of heaven,and therefore he lost his heritage.And that was the champion that thou foughtest withal,the which had overcome thee had not the grace of God been.Now beware Sir Percivale,and take this for an ensample.And then the good man vanished away.Then Sir Percivale took his arms,and entered into the ship,and so departed from thence.

(Here endeth the fourteenth book,which is of Sir Percivale.

And here followeth of Sir Launcelot,which is the fifteenth book.)

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