{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/mart/mart427.htm","path":"neu/mart/mart427.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/mart/mart427.htm","text":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK XVII CHAPTER XXI\n \n Sacred Texts\u00a0\n Legends and Sagas\u00a0\n Index\u00a0\n BOOK XVII\u00a0\n Previous\u00a0\n Next\u00a0\n \n \n CHAPTER XXI\n \n How Galahad anointed with the blood of the spear the\n Maimed King, and of other adventures.\n \n \n AND Galahad went anon to the spear which lay upon the\n table, and touched the blood with his fingers, and came\n after to the Maimed King and anointed his legs. And\n therewith he clothed him anon, and start upon his feet out\n of his bed as an whole man, and thanked Our Lord that\n He had healed him. And that was not to the worldward,\n for anon he yielded him to a place of religion of\n white monks, and was a full holy man. That same night\n about midnight came a voice among them which said:\n My sons and not my chief sons, my friends and not my\n warriors, go ye hence where ye hope best to do and as I\n bade you. Ah, thanked' be Thou, Lord, that Thou wilt\n vouchsafe to call us, Thy sinners. Now may we well\n prove that we have not lost our pains. And anon in\n all haste they took their harness and departed. But the\n three knights of Gaul, one of them hight Claudine, King\n Claudas' son, and the other two were great gentlemen.\n Then prayed Galahad to everych of them, that if they\n come to King Arthur's court that they should salute my\n lord, Sir Launcelot, my father, and all the fellowship[1] of\n the Round Table; and prayed them if that they came on\n that part that they should not forget it.\n \n Right so departed Galahad, Percivale and Bors with\n him; and so they rode three days, and then they came to\n a rivage, and found the ship whereof the tale speaketh of\n \n \n [1] So W. de Worde; Caxton ``of them.''\n \n \n to-fore. And when they came to the board they found in\n the midst the table of silver which they had left with the\n Maimed King, and the Sangreal which was covered with\n red samite. Then were they glad to have such things in\n their fellowship; and so they entered and made great\n reverence thereto; and Galahad fell in his prayer long time\n to Our Lord, that at what time he asked, that he should\n pass out of this world. So much he prayed till a voice\n said to him: Galahad, thou shalt have thy request; and\n when thou askest the death of thy body thou shalt have it,\n and then shalt thou find the life of the soul. Percivale\n heard this, and prayed him, of fellowship that was between\n them, to tell him wherefore he asked such things. That\n shall I tell you, said Galahad; the other day when we saw\n a part of the adventures of the Sangreal I was in such a joy\n of heart, that I trow never man was that was earthly. And\n therefore I wot well, when my body is dead my soul shall\n be in great joy to see the blessed Trinity every day, and\n the majesty of Our Lord, Jesu Christ.\n \n So long were they in the ship that they said to Galahad:\n Sir, in this bed ought ye to lie, for so saith the scripture.\n And so he laid him down and slept a great while; and\n when he awaked he looked afore him and saw the city of\n Sarras. And as they would have landed they saw the ship\n wherein Percivale had put his sister in. Truly, said\n Percivale, in the name of God, well hath my sister holden us\n covenant. Then took they out of the ship the table of\n silver, and he took it to Percivale and to Bors, to go to-fore,\n and Galahad came behind. And right so they went to the\n city, and at the gate of the city they saw an old man\n crooked. Then Galahad called him and bade him help to\n bear this heavy thing. Truly, said the old man, it is ten\n year ago that I might not go but with crutches. Care thou\n not, said Galahad, and arise up and shew thy good will.\n And so he assayed, and found himself as whole as ever he\n was. Than ran he to the table, and took one part against\n Galahad. And anon arose there great noise in the city,\n that a cripple was made whole by knights marvellous that\n entered into the city.\n \n Then anon after, the three knights went to the water,\n and brought up into the palace Percivale's sister, and buried\n her as richly as a king's daughter ought to be. And when\n the king of the city, which was cleped Estorause, saw the\n fellowship, he asked them of whence they were, and what\n thing it was that they had brought upon the table of silver.\n And they told him the truth of the Sangreal, and the power\n which that God had sent there. Then the king was a\n tyrant, and was come of the line of paynims, and took them\n and put them in prison in a deep hole.","title":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK XVII CHAPTER XXI","type":"page"}