"I thank you much therefor," saith Lancelot. "Damsel, is this your pleasure also?" "Yea, Sir, but, so please you, take not your departure from us until such time as he shall have done that which you tell him." "I will, well that so it be," saith Lancelot, "for love of you." They ride together right through the forest, until they came to a chapel at a hermitage, and the hermit wedded them and made much joy thereof. When it cometh to after-mass, Lancelot would fain depart, but the damsel prayeth him right sweetly that he should come right to her father's house to witness that the knight had wedded her. XIV. "Sir," saith she, "My father's hold is not far away." "Lady," saith Lancelot, "Willingly will I go sith that you beseech me thereof." They ride so long right amidst the forest, that presently they come to the castle of the Vavasour, that was sitting on the bridge of his castle, right sorrowful and troubled because of his daughter. Lancelot is gone on before and alighteth. The Vavasour riseth up to meet him, and Lancelot recounteth unto him how his daughter hath been wedded, and that he hath been at the wedding. Thereof the Vavasour maketh right great joy. Therewithal, behold you, the knight and the Vavasour's daughter that are straightway alighted, and the Vavasour thanketh Lancelot much of the honour he hath done his daughter. Therewith he departeth from the castle and rideth amidst the forest the day long, and meeteth a damsel and a dwarf that came a great gallop. "Sir," saith the damsel to Lancelot, "From whence come you?" "Damsel," saith he, "I come from the Vavasour's castle that is in this forest." "Did you meet," saith she, "a knight and a damsel on your way?" "Yea," saith Lancelot, "He hath wedded her." "Say you true?" saith she. "I tell you true," saith Lancelot, "But had I not been there, he would not have wedded her." "Shame and ill adventure may you have thereof, for you have reft me of the thing in the world that most I loved. And know you well of a truth that joy of him shall she never have, and if the knight had been armed as are you, never would he have done your will, but his own. And this is not the first harm you have done me; you and Messire Gawain between you have slain my uncle and my two cousins-german in the forest, whom behoved me bury in the chapel where you were, there where my dwarf that you see here was making the graves in the burial-ground." "Damsel," saith Lancelot, "true it is that I was there, but I departed from the grave-yard, honour safe." "True," saith the dwarf, "For the knights that were there were craven, and failed." "Fair friend," saith Lancelot, "Rather would I they should be coward toward me than hardy."