r, Sir Turquin, in likewise leading Sir Gaheris, your
brother, bounden afore him; and there I rescued your brother and slew
that Turquin, and delivered three-score-and-four of my lord Arthur's
knights out of his prison. And now I dare say, said Sir Launcelot, I met
never with so strong knights, nor so well fighting, as was Sir Carados
and Sir Turquin, for I fought with them to the uttermost. And therefore,
said Sir Launcelot unto Sir Gawaine, meseemeth ye ought of right to
remember this; for, an I might have your good will, I would trust to God
to have my lord Arthur's good grace.

CHAPTER XVI. Of the communication between Sir Gawaine and Sir Launcelot,
with much other language.

THE king may do as he will, said Sir Gawaine, but wit thou well, Sir
Launcelot, thou and I shall never be accorded while we live, for thou
hast slain three of my brethren; and two of them ye slew traitorly and
piteously, for they bare none harness against thee, nor none would bear.
God would they had been armed, said Sir Launcelot, for then had they
been alive. And wit ye well Sir Gawaine, as for Sir Gareth, I love none
of my kinsmen so much as I did him; and ever while I live, said Sir
Launcelot, I will bewail Sir Gareth's death, not all only for the great
fear I have of you, but many causes cause me to be sorrowful. One is,
for I made him knight; another is, I wot well he loved me above all
other knights; and the third is, he was passing noble, true, courteous,
and gentle, and well conditioned; the fourth is, I wist well, anon as I
heard that Sir Gareth was dead, I should never after have your love, but
everlasting war betwixt us; and also I wist well that ye would cause my
noble lord Arthur for ever to be my mortal foe. And as Jesu be my help,
said Sir Launcelot, I slew never Sir Gareth nor Sir Gaheris by my will;
but alas that ever they were unarmed that unhappy day. But thus much
I shall offer me, said Sir Launcelot, if it may please the king's good
grace, and you, my lord Sir Gawaine, I shall first begin at Sandwich,
and there I shall go in my shirt, barefoot; and at every ten miles' end
I will found and gar make an house of religion, of what order that ye
will assign me, with an whole convent, to sing and read, day and night,
in especial for Sir Gareth's sake and Sir Gaheris. And this shall
I perform from Sandwich unto Carlisle; and every house shall have
sufficient livelihood. And this shall I perform while I have any
livelihood