{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/mart/mart408.htm","path":"neu/mart/mart408.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/mart/mart408.htm","text":"CHAPTER II\nHow Sir Galahad rode with a damosel, and came to the ship\nwhereas Sir Bors and Sir Percivale were in.\nSO she rode as fast as her palfrey might bear her, till that\nshe came to the sea, the which was called Collibe. And\nat the night they came unto a castle in a valley, closed\nwith a running water, and with strong walls and high;\nand so she entered into the castle with Galahad, and there\nhad he great cheer, for the lady of that castle was the\ndamosel's lady. So when he was unarmed, then said the\ndamosel: Madam, shall we abide here all this day? Nay,\nsaid she, but till he hath dined and till he hath slept a\nlittle. So he ate and slept a while till that the maid called\nhim, and armed him by torchlight. And when the maid\nwas horsed and he both, the lady took Galahad a fair child\nand rich; and so they departed from the castle till they\ncame to the seaside; and there they found the ship where\nBors and Percivale were in, the which cried on the ship's\nboard: Sir Galahad, ye be welcome, we have abiden you\nlong. And when he heard them he asked them what they\nwere. Sir, said she, leave your horse here, and I shall\nleave mine; and took their saddles and their bridles with\nthem, and made a cross on them, and so entered into the\nship. And the two knights received them both with great\njoy, and everych knew other; and so the wind arose, and\ndrove them through the sea in a marvellous pace. And\nwithin a while it dawned.\nThen did Galahad off his helm and his sword, and\nasked of his fellows from whence came that fair ship.\nTruly, said they, ye wot as well as we, but of God's grace;\nand then they told everych to other of all their hard\nadventures, and of their great temptations. Truly, said\nGalahad, ye are much bounden to God, for ye have escaped\ngreat adventures; and had not the gentlewoman been I\nhad not come here, for as for you I weened never to have\nfound you in these strange countries. Ah Galahad, said\nBors, if Launcelot, your father, were here then were we\nwell at ease, for then meseemed we failed nothing. That\nmay not be, said Galahad, but if it pleased Our Lord.\nBy then the ship went from the land of Logris, and\nby adventure it arrived up betwixt two rocks passing great\nand marvellous; but there they might not land, for there\nwas a swallow of the sea, save there was another ship, and\nupon it they might go without danger. Go we thither,\nsaid the gentlewoman, and there shall we see adventures,\nfor so is Our Lord's will. And when they came thither\nthey found the ship rich enough, but they found neither\nman nor woman therein. But they found in the end of\nthe ship two fair letters written, which said a dreadful\nword and a marvellous: Thou man, which shall enter\ninto this ship, beware thou be in steadfast belief, for I am\nFaith, and therefore beware how thou enterest, for an\nthou fail I shall not help thee. Then said the gentlewoman:\nPercivale, wot ye what I am? Certes, said he,\nnay, to my witting. Wit ye well, said she, that I am thy\nsister, which am daughter of King Pellinore, and therefore\nwit ye well ye are the man in the world that I most love;\nand if ye be not in perfect belief of Jesu Christ enter not\nin no manner of wise, for then should ye perish the ship,\nfor he is so perfect he will suffer no sinner in him. When\nPercivale understood that she was his very sister he was\ninwardly glad, and said: Fair sister, I shall enter therein,\nfor if I be a miscreature or an untrue knight there shall I\nperish.","title":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK XVII CHAPTER II","type":"page"}