st to do to a mass. And then he
went to Galahad and kissed him, and bade him go and kiss his fellows:
and so he did anon. Now, said he, servants of Jesu Christ, ye shall be
fed afore this table with sweet meats that never knights tasted. And
when he had said, he vanished away. And they set them at the table in
great dread, and made their prayers.

Then looked they and saw a man come out of the Holy Vessel, that had all
the signs of the passion of Jesu Christ, bleeding all openly, and said:
My knights, and my servants, and my true children, which be come out of
deadly life into spiritual life, I will now no longer hide me from you,
but ye shall see now a part of my secrets and of my hidden things: now
hold and receive the high meat which ye have so much desired. Then took
he himself the Holy Vessel and came to Galahad; and he kneeled down,
and there he received his Saviour, and after him so received all his
fellows; and they thought it so sweet that it was marvellous to tell.
Then said he to Galahad: Son, wottest thou what I hold betwixt my hands?
Nay, said he, but if ye will tell me. This is, said he, the holy dish
wherein I ate the lamb on Sheer-Thursday. And now hast thou seen that
thou most desired to see, but yet hast thou not seen it so openly
as thou shalt see it in the city of Sarras in the spiritual place.
Therefore thou must go hence and bear with thee this Holy Vessel; for
this night it shall depart from the realm of Logris, that it shall never
be seen more here. And wottest thou wherefore? For he is not served nor
worshipped to his right by them of this land, for they be turned to evil
living; therefore I shall disherit them of the honour which I have done
them. And therefore go ye three to-morrow unto the sea, where ye shall
find your ship ready, and with you take the sword with the strange
girdles, and no more with you but Sir Percivale and Sir Bors. Also I
will that ye take with you of the blood of this spear for to anoint
the Maimed King, both his legs and all his body, and he shall have his
health. Sir, said Galahad, why shall not these other fellows go with us?
For this cause: for right as I departed my apostles one here and another
there, so I will that ye depart; and two of you shall die in my service,
but one of you shall come again and tell tidings. Then gave he them his
blessing and vanished away.

CHAPTER XXI. How Galahad anointed with the blood of the spear the Maimed
King, and of other adve