waine declareth himself to the Lady of the Fountain._]

Then Sir Ewaine said: "Lady, you understood not my words. Sir Ewaine is
not dead, and if you will you may easily have him here again." She said,
"How know you that?" Then Sir Ewaine cast off his hood and laid aside
his hat and said: "Lady, I am that man; and if I have deceived thee in
this, it is that I may again behold thy face that is so dear to me--yea,
that is dearer than all the world besides." So saying, Sir Ewaine
kneeled before the lady and embraced her about the knees, and she
stooped and embraced his head and both of them wept with a great passion
of love and joy. And so they were reconciled to one another.

And in that reconciliation there was much rejoicing, for all the town
was bedraped with silken scarves and banners by day and illuminated by
night because of joy for the return of the champion-defender of the
Fountain. And there was feasting and drinking at the castle of the
Fountain, and there was jousting from day to day for seven days, and in
those joustings the knights of the court of the Fountain under the lead
of Sir Ewaine defended their chivalry with such skill and valor that
none of those that came against them were able to withstand them, but
all those companies of knights-contestant were defeated, to the great
glory of the Lady Lesolie of the Fountain.

Then after seven days of this rejoicing, Sir Ewaine was wedded with
great pomp of circumstance to the Lady of the Fountain. And of that
wedding it is to be recorded in the history of these things that Sir
Ewaine and the Lady Lesolie rode to the minster upon milk-white horses,
and that they were all clad in white samite embroidered with silver and
inset with so many precious stones of all sorts and kinds that they
glistened in the sunlight as though they were two figures of living
fire. And it is recorded that tenscore damsels of wonderful beauty, clad
all in white, preceded them upon the way, and spread the way with
flowers, chaunting the while in voices of great rejoicing.

Thus Sir Ewaine was wedded at the castle of the Fountain, and after that
he dwelt in the land of the Fountain with great peace and good content.

And Sir Ewaine ever defended the Fountain as he had aforetime, so that
the fame of the Knight of the Fountain was known throughout the length
and breadth of the land and in every court of chivalry. And many knights
undertook the Adventure of the Fountain but in every case su