{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/mart/mart339.htm","path":"neu/mart/mart339.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/mart/mart339.htm","text":"CHAPTER XIV\nHow by miracle they were both made whole by the coming\nof the holy vessel of Sangreal.\nTHEN they made both great dole out of measure. This\nwill not avail, said Sir Percivale. And then he kneeled\ndown and made his prayer devoutly unto Almighty Jesu,\nfor he was one of the best knights of the world that at\nthat time was, in whom the very faith stood most in.\nRight so there came by the holy vessel of the Sangreal\nwith all manner of sweetness and savour; but they could\nnot readily see who that bare that vessel, but Sir Percivale\nhad a glimmering of the vessel and of the maiden that\nbare it, for he was a perfect clean maiden; and forthwithal\nthey both were as whole of hide and limb as ever they\nwere in their life-days: then they gave thankings to God\nwith great mildness. O Jesu, said Sir Percivale, what\nmay this mean, that we be thus healed, and right now we\nwere at the point of dying? I wot full well, said Sir Ector,\nwhat it is; it is an holy vessel that is borne by a maiden,\nand therein is part of the holy blood of our Lord Jesu\nChrist, blessed mote he be. But it may not be seen, said\nSir Ector, but if it be by a perfect man. So God me\nhelp, said Sir Percivale, I saw a damosel, as me thought,\nall in white, with a vessel in both her hands, and forthwithal\nI was whole.\nSo then they took their horses and their harness, and\namended their harness as well as they might that was\nbroken; and so they mounted upon their horses, and rode\ntalking together. And there Sir Ector de Maris told Sir\nPercivale how he had sought his brother, Sir Launcelot,\nlong, and never could hear witting of him: In many\nstrange adventures have I been in this quest. And so\neither told other of their adventures.","title":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK XI CHAPTER XIV","type":"page"}