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第255章 BOOK XVII(2)

By then the ship went from the land of Logris,and by adventure it arrived up betwixt two rocks passing great and marvellous;but there they might not land,for there was a swallow of the sea,save there was another ship,and upon it they might go without danger.Go we thither,said the gentlewoman,and there shall we see adventures,for so is Our Lord's will.And when they came thither they found the ship rich enough,but they found neither man nor woman therein.But they found in the end of the ship two fair letters written,which said a dreadful word and a marvellous:Thou man,which shall enter into this ship,beware thou be in steadfast belief,for I am Faith,and therefore beware how thou enterest,for an thou fail I shall not help thee.Then said the gentlewoman:

Percivale,wot ye what I am?Certes,said he,nay,to my witting.Wit ye well,said she,that I am thy sister,which am daughter of King Pellinore,and therefore wit ye well ye are the man in the world that I most love;and if ye be not in perfect belief of Jesu Christ enter not in no manner of wise,for then should ye perish the ship,for he is so perfect he will suffer no sinner in him.When Percivale understood that she was his very sister he was inwardly glad,and said:Fair sister,I shall enter therein,for if I be a miscreature or an untrue knight there shall Iperish.

CHAPTER III

How Sir Galahad entered into the ship,and of a fair bed therein,with other marvellous things,and of a sword.

IN the meanwhile Galahad blessed him,and entered therein;and then next the gentlewoman,and then Sir Bors and Sir Percivale.And when they were in,it was so marvellous fair and rich that they marvelled;and in midst of the ship was a fair bed,and Galahad went thereto,and found there a crown of silk.And at the feet was a sword,rich and fair,and it was drawn out of the sheath half a foot and more;and the sword was of divers fashions,and the pommel was of stone,and there was in him all manner of colours that any man might find,and everych of the colours had divers virtues;and the scales of the haft were of two ribs of divers beasts,the one beast was a serpent which was conversant in Calidone,and is called the Serpent of the fiend;and the bone of him is of such a virtue that there is no hand that handleth him shall never be weary nor hurt.And the other beast is a fish which is not right great,and haunteth the flood of Euphrates;and that fish is called Ertanax,and his bones be of such a manner of kind that who that handleth them shall have so much will that he shall never be weary,and he shall not think on joy nor sorrow that he hath had but only that thing that he beholdeth before him.And as for this sword there shall never man begrip him at the handles but one;but he shall pass all other.In the name of God,said Percivale,I shall assay to handle it.So he set his hand to the sword,but he might not begrip it.

By my faith,said he,now have I failed.Bors set his hand thereto and failed.

Then Galahad beheld the sword and saw letters like blood that said:Let see who shall assay to draw me out of my sheath,but if he be more hardier than any other;and who that draweth me,wit ye well that he shall never fail of shame of his body,or to be wounded to the death.

By my faith,said Galahad,I would draw this sword out of the sheath,but the offending is so great that I shall not set my hand thereto.Now sirs,said the gentlewoman,wit ye well that the drawing of this sword is warned to all men save all only to you.Also this ship arrived in the realm of Logris;and that time was deadly war between King Labor,which was father unto the maimed king,and King Hurlame,which was a Saracen.But then was he newly christened,so that men held him afterward one of the wittiest men of the world.And so upon a day it befell that King Labor and King Hurlame had assembled their folk upon the sea where this ship was arrived;and there King Hurlame was discomfit,and his men slain;and he was afeard to be dead,and fled to his ship,and there found this sword and drew it,and came out and found King Labor,the man in the world of all Christendom in whom was then the greatest faith.And when King Hurlame saw King Labor he dressed this sword,and smote him upon the helm so hard that he clave him and his horse to the earth with the first stroke of his sword.And it was in the realm of Logris;and so befell great pestilence and great harm to both realms.For sithen increased neither corn,nor grass,nor well-nigh no fruit,nor in the water was no fish;wherefore men call it the lands of the two marches,the waste land,for that dolorous stroke.And when King Hurlame saw this sword so carving,he turned again to fetch the scabbard,and so came into this ship and entered,and put up the sword in the sheath.And as soon as he had done it he fell down dead afore the bed.Thus was the sword proved,that none ne drew it but he were dead or maimed.

So lay he there till a maiden came into the ship and cast him out,for there was no man so hardy of the world to enter into that ship for the defence.

CHAPTER IV

Of the marvels of the sword and of the scabbard.

AND then beheld they the scabbard,it seemed to be of a serpent's skin,and thereon were letters of gold and silver.

And the girdle was but poorly to come to,and not able to sustain such a rich sword.And the letters said:He which shall wield me sought to be more harder than any other,if he bear me as truly as me ought to be borne.

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