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第30章 BOOK II(10)

Then they went to battle again so marvellously that doubt it was to hear of that battle for the great blood-shedding,and their hauberks unnailed that naked they were on every side.At last Balan the younger brother withdrew him a little and laid him down.Then said Balin le Savage,What knight art thou?for or now I found never no knight that matched me.My name is,said he,Balan,brother unto the good knight,Balin.Alas,said Balin,that ever I should see this day,and therewith he fell backward in a swoon.Then Balan yede on all four feet and hands,and put off the helm off his brother,and might not know him by the visage it was so ful hewn and bled;but when he awoke he said,O Balan,my brother,thou hast slain me and I thee,wherefore all the wide world shall speak of us both.Alas,said Balan,that ever I saw this day,that through mishap I might not know you,for I espied well your two swords,but by cause ye had another shield I deemed ye had been another knight.Alas,said Balin,all that made an unhappy knight in the castle,for he caused me to leave my own shield to our both's destruction,and if I might live I would destroy that castle for ill customs.

That were well done,said Balan,for I had never grace to depart from them since that I came hither,for here it happed me to slay a knight that kept this island,and since might I never depart,and no more should ye,brother,an ye might have slain me as ye have,and escaped yourself with the life.

Right so came the lady of the tower with four knights and six ladies and six yeomen unto them,and there she heard how they made their moan either to other,and said,We came both out of one tomb,that is to say one mother's belly,and so shall we lie both in one pit.So Balan prayed the lady of her gentleness,for his true service,that she would bury them both in that same place there the battle was done.And she granted them,with weeping,it should be done richly in the best manner.Now,will ye send for a priest,that we may receive our sacrament,and receive the blessed body of our Lord Jesus Christ?Yea,said the lady,it shall be done;and so she sent for a priest and gave them their rights.Now,said Balin,when we are buried in one tomb,and the mention made over us how two brethren slew each other,there will never good knight,nor good man,see our tomb but they will pray for our souls.And so all the ladies and gentlewomen wept for pity.Then anon Balan died,but Balin died not till the midnight after,and so were they buried both,and the lady let make a mention of Balan how he was there slain by his brother's hands,but she knew not Balin's name.

CHAPTER XIX

How Merlin buried them both in one tomb,and of Balin's sword.

IN the morn came Merlin and let write Balin's name on the tomb with letters of gold,that Here lieth Balin le Savage that was the Knight with the Two Swords,and he that smote the Dolorous Stroke.Also Merlin let make there a bed,that there should never man lie therein but he went out of his wit,yet Launcelot de Lake fordid that bed through his noblesse.And anon after Balin was dead,Merlin took his sword,and took off the pommel and set on another pommel.So Merlin bade a knight that stood afore him handle that sword,and he assayed,and he might not handle it.Then Merlin laughed.Why laugh ye?said the knight.

This is the cause,said Merlin:there shall never man handle this sword but the best knight of the world,and that shall be Sir Launcelot or else Galahad his son,and Launcelot with this sword shall slay the man that in the world he loved best,that shall be Sir Gawaine.All this he let write in the pommel of the sword.

Then Merlin let make a bridge of iron and of steel into that island,and it was but half a foot broad,and there shall never man pass that bridge,nor have hardiness to go over,but if he were a passing good man and a good knight without treachery or villainy.Also the scabbard of Balin's sword Merlin left it on this side the island,that Galahad should find it.Also Merlin let make by his subtilty that Balin's sword was put in a marble stone standing upright as great as a mill stone,and the stone hoved always above the water and did many years,and so by adventure it swam down the stream to the City of Camelot,that is in English Winchester.And that same day Galahad the haut prince came with King Arthur,and so Galahad brought with him the scabbard and achieved the sword that was there in the marble stone hoving upon the water.And on Whitsunday he achieved the sword as it is rehearsed in the book of Sangreal.

Soon after this was done Merlin came to King Arthur and told him of the dolorous stroke that Balin gave to King Pellam,and how Balin and Balan fought together the marvellest battle that ever was heard of,and how they were buried both in one tomb.Alas,said King Arthur,this is the greatest pity that ever I heard tell of two knights,for in the world I know not such two knights.Thus endeth the tale of Balin and of Balan,two brethren born in Northumberland,good knights.

Sequitur iii liber.

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