Then Gawain took his office-bearers, and in this wise to them he spake, The marshal, he bade him straightway to Ioflanz his way to take, 'There a camp of my own prepare me--The host that thou here didst see Shall unto that plain have ridden, and its lord will I name to thee, 640 For 'tis well that thou too shouldst know him, he is Arthur, my kinsman true, In whose court and whose care from my childhood I unto my manhood grew. Now do this thing in which I trust thee, rule my journey in such a wise, With such riches and pomp, that my coming be stately in all men's eyes; But within the walls of this castle no word of the truth be told-- 645 That the king for my sake cometh hither, this must thou for secret hold!' So did they as Gawain bade them, and Plippalinòt he found Little space had he now for leisure, since his lord was on journey bound. For large and small his vessels, both boat and skiff, must fare O'er the water, and troops well armèd, ahorse and afoot they bare. 650 And the marshal the squires and footmen on the track of the Bretons led, And hither and thither riding behind them the army sped. And they bare with them, so 'twas told me, the tent that in days of yore Fair Iblis had sent to Klingsor, as pledge of the love she bore. By the sending of this love-token their secret to men was told, 655 And the favour they bare each other in the days that have waxen old. And no cost had they spared who had wrought it, and no better was ever seen Save the tent of Eisenhart only--Then apart on the grass so green They set up the tent, and around it many others in goodly ring, And so great was the pomp and the riches that men deemed it a wondrous thing. 660