Le Morte Darthur: The Winchester Manuscript (Oxford World's Classics) by Malory Thomas & Helen Cooper

Author:Malory, Thomas & Helen Cooper [Malory, Thomas]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1998-03-04T16:00:00+00:00

‘Ah, my fellow,’ said Sir Lancelot, ‘this boar hath bitten me sore.’

‘Then come ye with me,’ said the hermit, ‘and I shall heal you.’

‘Go thy way,’ said Sir Lancelot, ‘and deal not with me.’

Then the hermit ran his way, and there he met with a goodly knight.

‘Sir,’ said the hermit, ‘here is fast by my place the goodliest man that ever I saw, and he is sore wounded with a boar, and yet he hath slain the boar. But well I wot,’ said the good man, ‘and he be not helped, he shall die of that wound, and that were great pity.’

Then that knight at the desire of the hermit got a cart, and therein he put the boar and Sir Lancelot; for he was so feeble that they might right easily deal with him. And so Sir Lancelot was brought unto the hermitage, and there the hermit healed him of his wound. But the hermit might not find him his sustenance,* and so he impaired and waxed feeble both of body and of his wit; for default of sustenance he waxed more wooder than he was aforetime.

And then upon a day Sir Lancelot ran his way into the forest; and by adventure he came to the city of Corbin, where Dame Elaine was, that bore Galahad, Sir Lancelot’s son. And so when he was entered into the town he ran through the town to the castle; and then all the young men of that city ran after Sir Lancelot, and there they threw turfs at him and gave him many sad strokes. And ever as Sir Lancelot might reach any of them, he threw them so that they would never come in his hands no more, for of some he broke the legs and arms, and so he fled into the castle; and then came out knights and squires and rescued Sir Lancelot. When they beheld him and looked upon his person, they thought they saw never so goodly a man, and when they saw so many wounds upon him, they deemed that he had been a man of worship. And then they ordained him clothes to his body, and straw and litter under the gate of the castle to lie in; and so every day they would throw him meat and set him drink. But there was but few that would bring him meat to his hands.

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So it befell that King Pelles had a nephew whose name was Castor; and so he desired of the king to be made knight, and at his own request the king made him knight at the feast of Candlemas. And when Sir Castor was made knight, that same day he gave many gowns. And then Sir Castor sent for the fool, which was Sir Lancelot; and when he was come before Sir Castor, he gave Sir Lancelot a robe of scarlet and all that longed unto him. And when Sir Lancelot was so arrayed like a knight, he was the seemliest man in all the court, and none so well made.

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