{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/mart/mart364.htm","path":"neu/mart/mart364.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/mart/mart364.htm","text":"CHAPTER XI\nHow Joseph made a cross on the white shield with his\nblood, and how Galahad was by a monk brought to\na tomb.\nNOT long after that Joseph was laid in his deadly bed.\nAnd when King Evelake saw that he made much sorrow,\nand said: For thy love I have left my country, and sith\nye shall depart out of this world, leave me some token of\nyours that I may think on you. Joseph said: That will\nI do full gladly; now bring me your shield that I took\nyou when ye went into battle against King Tolleme.\nThen Joseph bled sore at the nose, so that he might not\nby no mean be staunched. And there upon that shield\nhe made a cross of his own blood. Now may ye see a\nremembrance that I love you, for ye shall never see this\nshield but ye shall think on me, and it shall be always as\nfresh as it is now. And never shall man bear this shield\nabout his neck but he shall repent it, unto the time that\nGalahad, the good knight, bear it; and the last of my\nlineage shall have it about his neck, that shall do many\nmarvellous deeds. Now, said King Evelake, where shall\nI put this shield, that this worthy knight may have it?\nYe shall leave it thereas Nacien, the hermit, shall be put\nafter his death; for thither shall that good knight come\nthe fifteenth day after that he shall receive the order of\nknighthood: and so that day that they set is this time\nthat he have his shield, and in the same abbey lieth\nNacien, the hermit. And then the White Knight\nvanished away.\nAnon as the squire had heard these words, he alighted\noff his hackney and kneeled down at Galahad's feet, and\nprayed him that he might go with him till he had made him\nknight. Yea,[1] I would not refuse you. Then will ye\nmake me a knight? said the squire, and that order, by the\ngrace of God, shall be well set in me. So Sir Galahad\ngranted him, and turned again unto the abbey where they\ncame from; and there men made great joy of Sir Galahad.\nAnd anon as he was alighted there was a monk brought\nhim unto a tomb in a churchyard, where there was such a\nnoise that who that heard it should verily nigh be mad or\nlose his strength: and sir, they said, we deem it is a fiend.\n[1] Caxton ``Yf,'' for which ``Ye'' seems the easiest emendation that\nwill save the sense.","title":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK XIII CHAPTER XI","type":"page"}