{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/mart/mart260.htm","path":"neu/mart/mart260.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/mart/mart260.htm","text":"CHAPTER XXIII\nHow Sir Percivale was made knight of King Arthur, and\nhow a dumb maid spake, and brought him to the\nRound Table.\nNOW turn we again unto Sir Lamorak, and speak we of\nhis brethren, Sir Tor, which was King Pellinore's first son\nand begotten of Aryes, wife of the cowherd, for he was a\nbastard; and Sir Aglovale was his first son begotten in\nwedlock; Sir Lamorak, Dornar, Percivale, these were his\nsons too in wedlock. So when King Mark and Sir Tristram\nwere departed from the court there was made great\ndole and sorrow for the departing of Sir Tristram. Then\nthe king and his knights made no manner of joys eight days\nafter. And at the eight days' end there came to the court\na knight with a young squire with him. And when this\nknight was unarmed, he went to the king and required him\nto make the young squire a knight. Of what lineage is he\ncome? said King Arthur. Sir, said the knight, he is the\nson of King Pellinore, that did you some time good service,\nand he is a brother unto Sir Lamorak de Galis, the good\nknight. Well, said the king, for what cause desire ye that\nof me that I should make him knight? Wit you well, my\nlord the king, that this young squire is brother to me as\nwell as to Sir Lamorak, and my name is Aglavale. Sir\nAglavale, said Arthur, for the love of Sir Lamorak, and\nfor his father's love, he shall be made knight to-morrow.\nNow tell me, said Arthur, what is his name? Sir, said\nthe knight, his name is Percivale de Galis. So on the\nmorn the king made him knight in Camelot. But the\nking and all the knights thought it would be long or that\nhe proved a good knight.\nThen at the dinner, when the king was set at the table,\nand every knight after he was of prowess, the king\ncommanded him to be set among mean knights; and so was\nSir Percivale set as the king commanded. Then was\nthere a maiden in the queen's court that was come of high\nblood, and she was dumb and never spake word. Right\nso she came straight into the hall, and went unto Sir\nPercivale, and took him by the hand and said aloud, that\nthe king and all the knights might hear it: Arise, Sir\nPercivale, the noble knight and God's knight, and go with\nme; and so he did. And there she brought him to the\nright side of the Siege Perilous, and said, Fair knight, take\nhere thy siege, for that siege appertaineth to thee and to\nnone other. Right so she departed and asked a priest.\nAnd as she was confessed and houselled then she died.\nThen the king and all the court made great joy of Sir\nPercivale.","title":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK X CHAPTER XXIII","type":"page"}