So then they took their horses and made them ready, and took their
leave at King Pelles and at Dame Elaine. And when Sir Launcelot should
depart Dame Elaine made great sorrow. My lord, Sir Launcelot, said Dame
Elaine, at this same feast of Pentecost shall your son and mine,
Galahad, be made knight, for he is fully now fifteen winter old. Do as
ye list, said Sir Launcelot; God give him grace to prove a good knight.
As for that, said Dame Elaine, I doubt not he shall prove the best man
of his kin except one. Then shall he be a man good enough, said Sir
Launcelot.
CHAPTER X. How Sir Launcelot with Sir Percivale and Sir Ector came to
the court, and of the great joy of him.
Then they departed, and within five days’ journey they came to Camelot,
that is called in English, Winchester. And when Sir Launcelot was come
among them, the king and all the knights made great joy of him. And
there Sir Percivale de Galis and Sir Ector de Maris began and told the
whole adventures: that Sir Launcelot had been out of his mind the time
of his absence, and how he called himself Le Chevaler Mal Fet, the
knight that had trespassed; and in three days Sir Launcelot smote down
five hundred knights. And ever as Sir Ector and Sir Percivale told
these tales of Sir Launcelot, Queen Guenever wept as she should have
died. Then the queen made great cheer. O Jesu, said King Arthur, I
marvel for what cause ye, Sir Launcelot, went out of your mind. I and
many others deem it was for the love of fair Elaine, the daughter of
King Pelles, by whom ye are noised that ye have gotten a child, and his
name is Galahad, and men say he shall do marvels. My lord, said Sir
Launcelot, if I did any folly I have that I sought. And therewithal the
king spake no more. But all Sir Launcelot’s kin knew for whom he went
out of his mind. And then there were great feasts made and great joy;
and many great lords and ladies, when they heard that Sir Launcelot was
come to the court again, they made great joy.
CHAPTER XI. How La Beale Isoud counselled Sir Tristram to go unto the
court, to the great feast of Pentecost.
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