{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/mart/mart274.htm","path":"neu/mart/mart274.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/mart/mart274.htm","text":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK X CHAPTER XXXVII\n \n Sacred Texts\u00a0\n Legends and Sagas\u00a0\n Index\u00a0\n BOOK X\u00a0\n Previous\u00a0\n Next\u00a0\n \n \n CHAPTER XXXVII\n \n How Queen Morgan le Fay had Alisander in her castle, and\n how she healed his wounds.\n \n \n THEN Queen Morgan le Fay searched his wounds, and\n gave such an ointment unto him that he should have died.\n And on the morn when she came to him he complained\n him sore; and then she put other ointments upon him,\n and then he was out of his pain. Then came the damosel\n of the castle, and said unto Morgan le Fay: I pray you\n help me that this knight might wed me, for he hath won\n me with his hands. Ye shall see, said Morgan le Fay,\n what I shall say. Then Morgan le Fay went unto Alisander,\n and bade in anywise that he should refuse this lady,\n an she desire to wed you, for she is not for you. So the\n damosel came and desired of him marriage. Damosel, said\n Orphelin, I thank you, but as yet I cast me not to marry\n in this country. Sir, she said, sithen ye will not marry\n me, I pray you insomuch as ye have won me, that ye will\n give me to a knight of this country that hath been my\n friend, and loved me many years. With all my heart,\n said Alisander, I will assent thereto. Then was the knight\n sent for, his name was Gerine le Grose. And anon he\n made them handfast, and wedded them.\n \n Then came Queen Morgan le Fay to Alisander, and\n bade him arise, and put him in an horse litter, and gave\n him such a drink that in three days and three nights he\n waked never, but slept; and so she brought him to her\n own castle that at that time was called La Beale Regard.\n Then Morgan le Fay came to Alisander, and asked him\n if he would fain be whole. Who would be sick, said\n Alisander, an he might be whole? Well, said Morgan le\n Fay, then shall ye promise me by your knighthood that\n this day twelvemonth and a day ye shall not pass the\n compass of this castle, and without doubt ye shall lightly be\n whole. I assent, said Sir Alisander. And there he made her\n a promise: then was he soon whole. And when Alisander\n was whole, then he repented him of his oath, for he might\n not be revenged upon King Mark. Right so there came\n a damosel that was cousin to the Earl of Pase, and she was\n cousin to Morgan le Fay. And by right that castle of La\n Beale Regard should have been hers by true inheritance.\n So this damosel entered into this castle where lay\n Alisander, and there she found him upon his bed, passing\n heavy and all sad.","title":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK X CHAPTER XXXVII","type":"page"}