Then King Pelles and his son departed. And therewithal beseemed them
that there came a man, and four angels from heaven, clothed in likeness
of a bishop, and had a cross in his hand; and these four angels bare
him up in a chair, and set him down before the table of silver where
upon the Sangreal was; and it seemed that he had in midst of his
forehead letters the which said: See ye here Joseph, the first bishop
of Christendom, the same which Our Lord succoured in the city of Sarras
in the spiritual place. Then the knights marvelled, for that bishop was
dead more than three hundred year to-fore. O knights, said he, marvel
not, for I was sometime an earthly man. With that they heard the
chamber door open, and there they saw angels; and two bare candles of
wax, and the third a towel, and the fourth a spear which bled
marvellously, that three drops fell within a box which he held with his
other hand. And they set the candles upon the table, and the third the
towel upon the vessel, and the fourth the holy spear even upright upon
the vessel. And then the bishop made semblaunt as though he would have
gone to the sacring of the mass. And then he took an ubblie which was
made in likeness of bread. And at the lifting up there came a figure in
likeness of a child, and the visage was as red and as bright as any
fire, and smote himself into the bread, so that they all saw it that
the bread was formed of a fleshly man; and then he put it into the Holy
Vessel again, and then he did that longed to a priest to do to a mass.
And then he went to Galahad and kissed him, and bade him go and kiss
his fellows: and so he did anon. Now, said he, servants of Jesu Christ,
ye shall be fed afore this table with sweet meats that never knights
tasted. And when he had said, he vanished away. And they set them at
the table in great dread, and made their prayers.
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