{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/mart/mart375.htm","path":"neu/mart/mart375.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/mart/mart375.htm","text":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK XIV CHAPTER II\n \n Sacred Texts\u00a0\n Legends and Sagas\u00a0\n Index\u00a0\n BOOK XIV\u00a0\n Previous\u00a0\n Next\u00a0\n \n \n CHAPTER II\n \n How Merlin likened the Round Table to the world, and how\n the knights that should achieve the Sangreal should be\n known.\n \n \n ALSO Merlin made the Round Table in tokening of roundness\n of the world, for by the Round Table is the world\n signified by right, for all the world, Christian and heathen,\n repair unto the Round Table; and when they are chosen\n to be of the fellowship of the Round Table they think them\n more blessed and more in worship than if they had gotten\n half the world; and ye have seen that they have lost their\n fathers and their mothers, and all their kin, and their wives\n and their children, for to be of your fellowship. It is well\n seen by you; for since ye have departed from your mother\n ye would never see her, ye found such fellowship at the\n Round Table. When Merlin had ordained the Round\n Table he said, by them which should be fellows of the\n Round Table the truth of the Sangreal should be well\n known. And men asked him how men might know them\n that should best do and to enchieve the Sangreal? Then\n he said there should be three white bulls that should enchieve\n it, and the two should be maidens, and the third should be\n chaste. And that one of the three should pass his father\n as much as the lion passeth the leopard, both of strength\n and hardiness.\n \n They that heard Merlin say so said thus unto Merlin:\n Sithen there shall be such a knight, thou shouldest ordain\n by thy crafts a siege, that no man should sit in it but he\n all only that shall pass all other knights. Then Merlin\n answered that he would do so. And then he made the\n Siege Perilous, in the which Galahad sat in at his meat on\n Whitsunday last past. Now, madam, said Sir Percivale,\n so much have I heard of you that by my good will I will\n never have ado with Sir Galahad but by way of kindness;\n and for God's love, fair aunt, can ye teach me some way\n where I may find him? for much would I love the fellowship\n of him. Fair nephew, said she, ye must ride unto a\n castle the which is called Goothe, where he hath a cousin-\n germain, and there may ye be lodged this night. And as\n he teacheth you, seweth after as fast as ye can; and if he\n can tell you no tidings of him, ride straight unto the Castle\n of Carbonek, where the maimed king is there lying, for\n there shall ye hear true tidings of him.","title":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK XIV CHAPTER II","type":"page"}