{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/mart/mart367.htm","path":"neu/mart/mart367.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/mart/mart367.htm","text":"CHAPTER XIV\nHow Sir Galahad departed, and how he was commanded\nto go to the Castle of Maidens to destroy the wicked\ncustom.\nNOW will I depart, said Galahad, for I have much on hand,\nfor many good knights be full busy about it, and this\nknight and I were in the same quest of the Sangreal. Sir,\nsaid a good man, for his sin he was thus wounded; and\nI marvel, said the good man, how ye durst take upon you\nso rich a thing as the high order of knighthood without\nclean confession, and that was the cause ye were bitterly\nwounded. For the way on the right hand betokeneth the\nhighway of our Lord Jesu Christ, and the way of a good\ntrue good liver. And the other way betokeneth the way\nof sinners and of misbelievers. And when the devil saw\nyour pride and presumption, for to take you in the quest\nof the Sangreal, that made you to be overthrown, for it\nmay not be enchieved but by virtuous living. Also, the\nwriting on the cross was a signification of heavenly deeds,\nand of knightly deeds in God's works, and no knightly\ndeeds in worldly works. And pride is head of all deadly\nsins, that caused this knight to depart from Galahad. And\nwhere thou tookest the crown of gold thou sinnest in\ncovetise and in theft: all this were no knightly deeds.\nAnd this Galahad, the holy knight, the which fought with\nthe two knights, the two knights signify the two deadly\nsins which were wholly in this knight Melias; and they\nmight not withstand you, for ye are without deadly sin.\nNow departed Galahad from thence, and betaught them\nall unto God. Sir Melias said: My lord Galahad, as soon\nas I may ride I shall seek you. God send you health, said\nGalahad, and so took his horse and departed, and rode\nmany journeys forward and backward, as adventure would\nlead him. And at the last it happened him to depart from\na place or a castle the which was named Abblasoure; and\nhe had heard no mass, the which he was wont ever to hear\nor ever he departed out of any castle or place, and kept\nthat for a custom. Then Sir Galahad came unto a mountain\nwhere he found an old chapel, and found there\nnobody, for all, all was desolate; and there he kneeled\nto-fore the altar, and besought God of wholesome counsel.\nSo as he prayed he heard a voice that said: Go thou now,\nthou adventurous knight, to the Castle of Maidens, and\nthere do thou away the wicked customs.","title":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK XIII CHAPTER XIV","type":"page"}