I."

The King was right sorrowful for that he had remembered not the damsel.
She departeth from the court, and taketh leave of the King and Queen,
and saith that she herself will go seek the knight, and that, so she
may find him, she will hold the King quit of his covenant. Messire
Gawain and Lancelot are returned to the court, and have heard the
tidings of the knight that hath carried away the shield, and are right
grieved that they have not seen him, and Messire Gawain more than
enough, for that he had lien in his mother's house. Lancelot seeth the
shield that he had left on the column, and knoweth it well, and saith,
"Now know I well that Perceval hath been here, for this shield was he
wont to bear, and the like also his father bore."

"Ha," saith Messire Gawain, "What ill-chance have I that I may not see
the Good Knight!"

"Messire Gawain," saith Lancelot, "So nigh did I see him that methought
he would have killed me, for never before did I essay onset so stout
nor so cruel of force of arms, and I myself wounded him, and when he
knew me he made right great joy of me. And I was with him at the house
of King Hermit a long space until that I was healed."

"Lancelot," saith Messire Gawain, "I would that he had wounded me, so I
were not too sore harmed thereof, so that I might have been with him so
long time as were you."

"Lords," saith the King, "Behoveth you go on quest of him or I will go,
for I am bound to beseech his aid on behalf of a damsel that asked me
thereof, but she told me that, so she might find him first, I should be
quit of her request."

"Sir," saith the Queen, "You will do a right great service and you may
counsel her herein, for sore discounselled is she. She hath told me
that she was daughter of Alain li Gros of the Valleys of Camelot, and
that her mother's name is Yglais, and her own Dindrane."

"Ha, Lady," saith Messire Gawain, "She is sister to the knight that
hath borne away the shield, for I lay at her mother's house wherein I
was right well lodged."

"By my head," saith the Queen, "it may well be, for so soon as she came
in hither, the brachet that would have acquaintance with none, made her
great joy, and when the knight came to seek the shield, the brachet,
that had remained in the hall, played gladly with him and went."

"By my faith," saith Messire Gawain, "I will go in quest of the knight,
for right great desire have I to see him."

"And I," saith Lancelot, "Never so glad h