{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/mart/mart030.htm","path":"neu/mart/mart030.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/mart/mart030.htm","text":"CHAPTER IV\nHow Merlin told the adventure of this damosel.\nAT that time there was a knight, the which was the king's son of\nIreland, and his name was Lanceor, the which was an orgulous\nknight, and counted himself one of the best <55>of the court; and\nhe had great despite at Balin for the achieving of the sword,\nthat any should be accounted more hardy, or more of prowess; and\nhe asked King Arthur if he would give him leave to ride after\nBalin and to revenge the despite that he had done. Do your best,\nsaid Arthur, I am right wroth with Balin; I would he were quit of\nthe despite that he hath done to me and to my court. Then this\nLanceor went to his hostelry to make him ready. In the meanwhile\ncame Merlin unto the court of King Arthur, and there was told him\nthe adventure of the sword, and the death of the Lady of the\nLake. Now shall I say you, said Merlin; this same damosel that\nhere standeth, that brought the sword unto your court, I shall\ntell you the cause of her coming: she was the falsest damosel\nthat liveth. Say not so, said they. She hath a brother, a\npassing good knight of prowess and a full true man; and this\ndamosel loved another knight that held her to paramour, and this\ngood knight her brother met with the knight that held her to\nparamour, and slew him by force of his hands. When this false\ndamosel understood this, she went to the Lady Lile of Avelion,\nand besought her of help, to be avenged on her own brother.","title":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK II CHAPTER IV","type":"page"}