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第256章 BOOK XVII(3)

For the body of him which I ought to hang by,he shall not be shamed in no place while he is girt with this girdle,nor never none be so hardy to do away this girdle;for it ought not be done away but by the hands of a maid,and that she be a king's daughter and queen's,and she must be a maid all the days of her life,both in will and in deed.And if she break her virginity she shall die the most villainous death that ever died any woman.Sir,said Percivale,turn this sword that we may see what is on the other side.And it was red as blood,with black letters as any coal,which said:He that shall praise me most,most shall he find me to blame at a great need;and to whom Ishould be most debonair shall I be most felon,and that shall be at one time.

Fair brother,said she to Percivale,it befell after a forty year after the passion of Jesu Christ that Nacien,the brother-in-law of King Mordrains,was borne into a town more than fourteen days'journey from his country,by the commandment of Our Lord,into an isle,into the parts of the West,that men cleped the Isle of Turnance.So befell it that he found this ship at the entry of a rock,and he found the bed and this sword as we have heard now.Not for then he had not so much hardiness to draw it;and there he dwelled an eight days,and at the ninth day there fell a great wind which departed him out of the isle,and brought him to another isle by a rock,and there he found the greatest giant that ever man might see.Therewith came that horrible giant to slay him;and then he looked about him and might not flee,and he had nothing to defend him with.So he ran to his sword,and when he saw it naked he praised it much,and then he shook it,and therewith he brake it in the midst.Ah,said Nacien,the thing that I most praised ought I now most to blame,and therewith he threw the pieces of his sword over his bed.And after he leapt over the board to fight with the giant,and slew him.

And anon he entered into the ship again,and the wind arose,and drove him through the sea,that by adventure he came to another ship where King Mordrains was,which had been tempted full evil with a fiend in the Port of Perilous Rock.And when that one saw the other they made great joy of other,and either told other of their adventure,and how the sword failed him at his most need When Mordrains saw the sword he praised it much:But the breaking was not to do but by wickedness of thy selfward,for thou art in some sin.And there he took the sword,and set the pieces together,and they soldered as fair as ever they were to-fore;and there put he the sword in the sheath,and laid it down on the bed.Then heard they a voice that said:Go out of this ship a little while,and enter into the other,for dread ye fall in deadly sin,for and ye be found in deadly sin ye may not escape but perish:and so they went into the other ship.And as Nacien went over the board he was smitten with a sword on the right foot,that he fell down noseling to the ship's board;and therewith he said:O God,how am I hurt.

And then there came a voice and said:Take thou that for thy forfeit that thou didst in drawing of this sword,therefore thou receivest a wound,for thou were never worthy to handle it,as the writing maketh mention.In the name of God,said Galahad,ye are right wise of these works.

CHAPTER V

How King Pelles was smitten through both thighs because he drew the sword,and other marvellous histories.

SIR,said she,there was a king that hight Pelles,the maimed king.And while he might ride he supported much Christendom and Holy Church.So upon a day he hunted in a wood of his which lasted unto the sea;and at the last he lost his hounds and his knights save only one:

and there he and his knight went till that they came toward Ireland,and there he found the ship.And when he saw the letters and understood them,yet he entered,for he was right perfect of his life,but his knight had none hardiness to enter;and there found he this sword,and drew it out as much as ye may see.So therewith entered a spear wherewith he was smitten him through both the thighs,and never sith might he be healed,nor nought shall to-fore we come to him.Thus,said she,was not King Pelles,your grandsire,maimed for his hardiness?

In the name of God,damosel,said Galahad.

So they went toward the bed to behold all about it,and above the head there hung two swords.Also there were two spindles which were as white as any snow,and other that were as red as blood,and other above green as any emerald:of these three colours were the spindles,and of natural colour within,and without any painting.These spindles,said the damosel,were when sinful Eve came to gather fruit,for which Adam and she were put out of paradise,she took with her the bough on which the apple hung on.Then perceived she that the branch was fair and green,and she remembered her the loss which came from the tree.Then she thought to keep the branch as long as she might.And for she had no coffer to keep it in,she put it in the earth.So by the will of Our Lord the branch grew to a great tree within a little while,and was as white as any snow,branches,boughs,and leaves:

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