{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/mart/mart347.htm","path":"neu/mart/mart347.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/mart/mart347.htm","text":"CHAPTER VIlI\nHow each of them knew other, and of their great courtesy,\nand how his brother Sir Ector came unto him, and of\ntheir joy.\nAND therewithal Sir Launcelot kneeled down upon his\nknees, and threw away his shield and his sword from\nhim. When Sir Percivale saw him do so he marvelled\nwhat he meant. And then thus he said: Sir knight,\nwhatsomever thou be, I require thee upon the high\norder of knighthood, tell me thy true name. Then he\nsaid: So God me help, my name is Sir Launcelot du\nLake, King Ban's son of Benoy. Alas, said Sir Percivale,\nwhat have I done? I was sent by the queen for to\nseek you, and so I have sought you nigh this two\nyear, and yonder is Sir Ector de Maris, your brother\nabideth me on the other side of the yonder water. Now\nfor God's sake, said Sir Percivale, forgive me mine offences\nthat I have here done. It is soon forgiven, said Sir\nLauncelot.\nThen Sir Percivale sent for Sir Ector de Maris,\nand when Sir Launcelot had a sight of him, he ran\nunto him and took him in his arms; and then Sir\nEctor kneeled down, and either wept upon other, that\nall had pity to behold them. Then came Dame Elaine\nand she there made them great cheer as might lie in\nher power; and there she told Sir Ector and Sir\nPercivale how and in what manner Sir Launcelot came\ninto that country, and how he was healed; and there\nit was known how long Sir Launcelot was with Sir\nBliant and with Sir Selivant, and how he first met with\nthem, and how he departed from them because of a\nboar; and how the hermit healed Sir Launcelot of his\ngreat wound, and how that he came to Corbin.","title":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK XII CHAPTER VIlI","type":"page"}