King Pelles and Sir Launcelot caught a sight of the St. Graal; but did not “achieve it,” like Galahad. When they went into the castle to take their repast ... there came a dove to the window, and in his bill was a little censer of gold, and there withall was such a savor as if all the spicery of the world had been there ... and a damsel, passing fair, bare a vessel of gold between her hands, and thereto the king kneeled devoutly and said his prayers ... “Oh mercy!” said Sir Launcelot, “what may this mean?”... “This,” said the king, “is the holy Sancgreall which ye have seen.”—Pt. iii. 2. When Sir Bors de Ganis went to Corbin, and saw Galahad, the son of Sir Launcelot, he prayed that the boy might prove as good a knight as his father, and instantly the white dove came with the golden censer, and the damsel bearing the Sancgraal, and told Sir Bors that Galahad would prove a better knight than his father, and would “achieve the Sancgreall;” then both dove and damsel vanished.—Pt. iii. 4. Sir Percival, the son of Sir Pellinore, king of Wales, after his combat with Sir Ector de Maris (brother of Sir Launcelot), caught a sight of the Holy Graal, and both were cured of their wounds thereby. Like Sir Bors, he was with Sir Galahad when the quest was achieved (pt. iii. 14). Sir Launcelot was also miraculously cured in the same way (pt. iii. 18). King Arthur, the queen, and all the 150 knights saw the Holy Graal as they sat at supper when Galahad was received into the fellowship of the Round Table: First they heard a crackling and crying of thunder ... and in the midst of the blast entered a sun-beam more clear by seven times than ever they saw day, and all were lighted of the grace of the Holy Ghost ... then there entered the hall the Holy Greal [_consecrated bread_] covered with white samite; but none might see it, nor who bare it ... and when the Holy Greal had been borne thro’ the hall, the vessel suddenly departed.—Sir T. Malory, _History of Prince Arthur_, iii. 35 (1470). ⁂ The chief romances of the St. Graal are: _Parceval le Gallois_, by Chrétien de Troyes, in verse, and _Roman des Diverses Quêtes de St. Graal_, by Walter Mapes, in prose, both written in the latter part of the twelfth century; _Titurel, or the Guardian of the Holy Graal_, by Wolfram von Eschenbach; _the Romance of Parzival_, by the same—partly founded upon the poem of Chrétien—and the _Life of Joseph of Arimathēa_, by Robert de Borron, all belonging to the early part of the thirteenth century; _The Holy Grail_, by Tennyson. =Gracchi= (_The_). Caius and Tiberius Gracchus, sons of the Roman matron, Cornelia, and leaders of the populace in several revolutions. =Grace= (_Lady_), a sister of Lady Townly, and the engaged wife of Mr. Manly. The very opposite of a lady of fashion. She says: