{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/mart/mart023.htm","path":"neu/mart/mart023.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/mart/mart023.htm","text":"CHAPTER XXIV\nHow Merlin saved Arthur's life, and threw an enchantment\non King Pellinore and made him to sleep.\nTHEREWITHAL came Merlin and said, Knight, hold thy hand, for an\nthou slay that knight thou puttest this realm <44>in the greatest\ndamage that ever was realm: for this knight is a man of more\nworship than thou wotest of. Why, who is he? said the knight.\nIt is King Arthur. Then would he have slain him for dread of his\nwrath, and heaved up his sword, and therewith Merlin cast an\nenchantment to the knight, that he fell to the earth in a great\nsleep. Then Merlin took up King Arthur, and rode forth on the\nknight's horse. Alas! said Arthur, what hast thou done, Merlin?\nhast thou slain this good knight by thy crafts? There liveth not\nso worshipful a knight as he was; I had liefer than the stint of\nmy land a year that he were alive. Care ye not, said Merlin, for\nhe is wholer than ye; for he is but asleep, and will awake within\nthree hours. I told you, said Merlin, what a knight he was; here\nhad ye been slain had I not been. Also there liveth not a bigger\nknight than he is one, and he shall hereafter do you right good\nservice; and his name is Pellinore, and he shall have two sons\nthat shall be passing good men; save one they shall have no\nfellow of prowess and of good living, and their names shall be\nPercivale of Wales and Lamerake of Wales, and he shall tell you\nthe name of your own son, begotten of your sister, that shall be\nthe destruction of all this realm.","title":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK I CHAPTER XXIV","type":"page"}