their King. And they did so. After Galahad was proclaimed King, he
ordered that a coffer of gold and precious stones should be made to
encompass the table of silver, and every day he and the two Knights
would kneel before it and make their prayers.

Now at the year's end, and on the selfsame day that Galahad had been
crowned King, he arose up early and came with the two Knights to the
Palace; and he saw a man in the likeness of a Bishop, encircled by a
great crowd of angels, kneeling before the Holy Vessel. And he called
to Galahad and said to him, 'Come forth, thou servant of Christ, and
thou shalt see what thou hast much desired to see.' Then Galahad began
to tremble right hard, when the flesh first beheld the things of the
spirit, and he held up his hands to heaven and said, 'Lord, I thank
thee, for now I see that which hath been my desire for many a day.
Now, blessed Lord, I would no longer live, if it might please Thee.'
Then Galahad went to Percivale and kissed him, and commended him to
God; and he went to Sir Bors and kissed him, and commended him to God,
and said, 'Fair lord, salute me to my lord Sir Lancelot, my father,
and bid him remember this unstable world.' Therewith he kneeled down
before the table and made his prayers, and while he was praying his
soul suddenly left the body and was carried by angels up into heaven,
which the two Knights right well beheld. Also they saw come from
heaven a hand, but no body behind it, and it came unto the Vessel, and
took it and the spear, and bare them back to heaven. And since then no
man has dared to say that he has seen the Holy Graal.

When Percivale and Bors saw Galahad lying dead they made as much
sorrow as ever two men did, and the people of the country and of the
city were right heavy. And they buried him as befitted their King. As
soon as Galahad was buried, Sir Percivale sought a hermitage outside
the city, and put on the dress of a hermit, and Sir Bors was always
with him, but kept the dress that he wore at Court. When a year and
two months had passed Sir Percivale died also, and was buried by the
side of Galahad; and Sir Bors left that land, and after long riding
came to Camelot. Then was there great joy made of him in the Court,
for they had held him as dead; and the King ordered great clerks to
attend him, and to write down all his adventures and those of Sir
Percivale and Sir Galahad. Next, Sir Lancelot told the adventures of
the Graal which he had seen,