Man that had been bound to the stake
set upon a cross, and nailed thereon right grievously and smitten in
the side with a spear, whereof had I such great pity that needs must I
weep of the sore pain that I saw Him suffer. I saw the Lady at the
feet of the cross, and knew her again that I had seen delivered of the
Child, but none might set in writing the great dole that she made. On
the other side of the cross was a man that seemed not joyful, but he
recomforted the Lady the fairest he might. And another folk were there
that collected His blood in a most holy Vessel that one of them held
for it."

XXVII.

"Afterward, methought I saw Him taken down of hanging on the cross, and
set in a sepulchre of stone. Thereof had I great pity for, so long as
meseemed I saw Him thus never might I withhold me from weeping. And so
soon as the pity came into my heart, and the tears into my eyes, I had
my sight even as you see. In such a Lord as this ought one to believe,
for He suffered death when He might lightly have avoided it had He so
willed, but He did it to save His people. In this Lord I will that ye
all believe, and so renounce our false gods, for they be devils and
therefore may not aid us nor avail us. And he that will not believe,
him will I make be slain or die a shameful death."

The Lady made her be held up and baptized, and all them that would not
do the same she made be destroyed and banished. This history telleth
us that her name was Salubre. She was good lady and well believed in
God, and so holy life led she thereafter that in a hermitage she died.
Perceval departed from the castle right joyous in his heart of the Lady
and her people that believed in the New Law.

BRANCH XXXIII.

TITLE I.

Afterward, this title telleth us that Meliot of Logres was departed
from Castle Perilous sound and whole, by virtue of the sword that
Lancelot had brought him, and of the cloth that he took in the Chapel
Perilous. But sore sorrowful was he of the tidings he had heard that
Messire Gawain was in prison and he knew not where, but he had been
borne on hand that two knights that were kinsmen of them of the Raving
Castle that had slain one another, had shut him in prison on account of
Perceval that had won the castle. Now, saith Meliot of Logres, never
shall he have ease again until he knoweth where Messire Gawain is. He
rideth amidst a forest, and prayeth God grant him betimes to hear
witting of Messire Gawain.