{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/mart/mart060.htm","path":"neu/mart/mart060.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/mart/mart060.htm","text":"CHAPTER XV\nHow when he was come to Camelot he was sworn upon a\nbook to tell the truth of his quest.\nAND therewith they departed, and came there as the head of the\nlady lay with a fair yellow hair that grieved King Pellinore\npassingly sore when he looked on it, for <100>much he cast his\nheart on the visage. And so by noon they came to Camelot; and\nthe king and the queen were passing fain of his coming to the\ncourt. And there he was made to swear upon the Four Evangelists,\nto tell the truth of his quest from the one to the other. Ah!\nSir Pellinore, said Queen Guenever, ye were greatly to blame that\nye saved not this lady's life. Madam, said Pellinore, ye were\ngreatly to blame an ye would not save your own life an ye might,\nbut, save your pleasure, I was so furious in my quest that I\nwould not abide, and that repenteth me, and shall the days of my\nlife. Truly, said Merlin, ye ought sore to repent it, for that\nlady was your own daughter begotten on the lady of the Rule, and\nthat knight that was dead was her love, and should have wedded\nher, and he was a right good knight of a young man, and would\nhave proved a good man, and to this court was he coming, and his\nname was Sir Miles of the Launds, and a knight came behind him\nand slew him with a spear, and his name is Loraine le Savage, a\nfalse knight and a coward; and she for great sorrow and dole slew\nherself with his sword, and her name was Eleine. And because ye\nwould not abide and help her, ye shall see your best friend fail\nyou when ye be in the greatest distress that ever ye were or\nshall be. And that penance God hath ordained you for that deed,\nthat he that ye shall most trust to of any man alive, he shall\nleave you there ye shall be slain. Me forthinketh, said King\nPellinore, that this shall me betide, but God may fordo well\ndestiny.\nThus, when the quest was done of the white hart, the which\nfollowed Sir Gawaine; and the quest of the brachet, followed of\nSir Tor, Pellinore's son; and the quest of the lady that the\nknight took away, the which King Pellinore at that time followed;\nthen the king stablished all his knights, and them that were of\nlands not rich he gave them lands, and charged them never to do\noutrageousity nor murder, and always to flee treason; also, by no\nmeans to be cruel, but to give mercy unto him that asketh mercy,\nupon pain of forfeiture of their worship and lordship of King\nArthur for evermore; and always to do <101>ladies, damosels, and\ngentlewomen succour, upon pain of death. Also, that no man take\nno battles in a wrongful quarrel for no law, nor for no world's\ngoods. Unto this were all the knights sworn of the Table Round,\nboth old and young. And every year were they sworn at the high\nfeast of Pentecost.\nExplicit the Wedding of King Arthur.\nSequitur quartus liber.","title":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK III CHAPTER XV","type":"page"}