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第45章 BOOK IV(8)

Then she went unto Queen Guenever,and asked her leave to ride into the country.Ye may abide,said Queen Guenever,till your brother the king come home.I may not,said Morgan le Fay,for Ihave such hasty tidings,that I may not tarry.Well,said Guenever,ye may depart when ye will.So early on the morn,or it was day,she took her horse and rode all that day and most part of the night,and on the morn by noon she came to the same abbey of nuns whereas lay King Arthur;and she knowing he was there,she asked where he was.And they answered how he had laid him in his bed to sleep,for he had had but little rest these three nights.Well,said she,I charge you that none of you awake him till I do,and then she alighted off her horse,and thought for to steal away Excalibur his sword,and so she went straight unto his chamber,and no man durst disobey her commandment,and there she found Arthur asleep in his bed,and Excalibur in his right hand naked.When she saw that she was passing heavy that she might not come by the sword without she had awaked him,and then she wist well she had been dead.Then she took the scabbard and went her way on horseback.When the king awoke and missed his scabbard,he was wroth,and he asked who had been there,and they said his sister,Queen Morgan had been there,and had put the scabbard under her mantle and was gone.Alas,said Arthur,falsely ye have watched me.Sir,said they all,we durst not disobey your sister's commandment.Ah,said the king,let fetch the best horse may be found,and bid Sir Ontzlake arm him in all haste,and take another good horse and ride with me.So anon the king and Ontzlake were well armed,and rode after this lady,and so they came by a cross and found a cowherd,and they asked the poor man if there came any lady riding that way.Sir,said this poor man,right late came a lady riding with a forty horses,and to yonder forest she rode.Then they spurred their horses,and followed fast,and within a while Arthur had a sight of Morgan le Fay;then he chased as fast as he might.When she espied him following her,she rode a greater pace through the forest till she came to a plain,and when she saw she might not escape,she rode unto a lake thereby,and said,Whatsoever come of me,my brother shall not have this scabbard.

And then she let throw the scabbard in the deepest of the water so it sank,for it was heavy of gold and precious stones.

Then she rode into a valley where many great stones were,and when she saw she must be overtaken,she shaped herself,horse and man,by enchantment unto a great marble stone.Anon withal came Sir Arthur and Sir Ontzlake whereas the king might know his sister and her men,and one knight from another.Ah,said the king,here may ye see the vengeance of God,and now am I sorry that this misadventure is befallen.And then he looked for the scabbard,but it would not be found,so he returned to the abbey where he came from.So when Arthur was gone she turned all into the likeliness as she and they were before,and said,Sirs,now may we go where we will.

CHAPTER XV

How Morgan le Fay saved a knight that should have been drowned,and how King Arthur returned home again.

THEN said Morgan,Saw ye Arthur,my brother?Yea,said her knights,right well,and that ye should have found an we might have stirred from one stead,for by his armyvestal countenance he would have caused us to have fled.I believe you,said Morgan.

Anon after as she rode she met a knight leading another knight on his horse before him,bound hand and foot,blindfold,to have drowned him in a fountain.When she saw this knight so bound,she asked him,What will ye do with that knight?Lady,said he,I will drown him.For what cause?she asked.For Ifound him with my wife,and she shall have the same death anon.

That were pity,said Morgan le Fay.Now,what say ye,knight,is it truth that he saith of you?she said to the knight that should be drowned.Nay truly,madam,he saith not right on me.Of whence be ye,said Morgan le Fay,and of what country?I am of the court of King Arthur,and my name is Manassen,cousin unto Accolon of Gaul.Ye say well,said she,and for the love of him ye shall be delivered,and ye shall have your adversary in the same case ye be in.So Manassen was loosed and the other knight bound.And anon Manassen unarmed him,and armed himself in his harness,and so mounted on horseback,and the knight afore him,and so threw him into the fountain and drowned him.And then he rode unto Morgan again,and asked if she would anything unto King Arthur.Tell him that I rescued thee,not for the love of him but for the love of Accolon,and tell him I fear him not while Ican make me and them that be with me in likeness of stones;and let him wit I can do much more when I see my time.And so she departed into the country of Gore,and there was she richly received,and made her castles and towns passing strong,for always she dreaded much King Arthur.

When the king had well rested him at the abbey,he rode unto Camelot,and found his queen and his barons right glad of his coming.And when they heard of his strange adventures as is afore rehearsed,then all had marvel of the falsehood of Morgan le Fay;many knights wished her burnt.Then came Manassen to court and told the king of his adventure.Well,said the king,she is a kind sister;I shall so be avenged on her an I live,that all Christendom shall speak of it.So on the morn there came a damosel from Morgan to the king,and she brought with her the richest mantle that ever was seen in that court,for it was set as full of precious stones as one might stand by another,and there were the richest stones that ever the king saw.And the damosel said,Your sister sendeth you this mantle,and desireth that ye should take this gift of her;and in what thing she hath offended you,she will amend it at your own pleasure.

When the king beheld this mantle it pleased him much,but he said but little.

CHAPTER XVI

How the Damosel of the Lake saved King Arthur from mantle that should have burnt him.

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