hts, it is
Merlin that so speaketh unto you. Then King Arthur was greatly abashed,
and had marvel of Merlin, and so had King Ban and King Bors, and so they
had great disport at him. So in the meanwhile there came a damosel that
was an earl's daughter: his name was Sanam, and her name was Lionors, a
passing fair damosel; and so she came thither for to do homage, as other
lords did after the great battle. And King Arthur set his love greatly
upon her, and so did she upon him, and the king had ado with her, and
gat on her a child: his name was Borre, that was after a good knight,
and of the Table Round. Then there came word that the King Rience of
North Wales made great war on King Leodegrance of Cameliard, for the
which thing Arthur was wroth, for he loved him well, and hated King
Rience, for he was alway against him. So by ordinance of the three kings
that were sent home unto Benwick, all they would depart for dread of
King Claudas; and Phariance, and Antemes, and Gratian, and Lionses [of]
Payarne, with the leaders of those that should keep the kings' lands.

CHAPTER XVIII. How King Arthur, King Ban, and King Bors rescued King
Leodegrance, and other incidents.

AND then King Arthur, and King Ban, and King Bors departed with their
fellowship, a twenty thousand, and came within six days into the country
of Cameliard, and there rescued King Leodegrance, and slew there much
people of King Rience, unto the number of ten thousand men, and put
him to flight. And then had these three kings great cheer of King
Leodegrance, that thanked them of their great goodness, that they would
revenge him of his enemies; and there had Arthur the first sight of
Guenever, the king's daughter of Cameliard, and ever after he loved her.
After they were wedded, as it telleth in the book. So, briefly to make
an end, they took their leave to go into their own countries, for King
Claudas did great destruction on their lands. Then said Arthur, I will
go with you. Nay, said the kings, ye shall not at this time, for ye have
much to do yet in these lands, therefore we will depart, and with the
great goods that we have gotten in these lands by your gifts, we shall
wage good knights and withstand the King Claudas' malice, for by the
grace of God, an we have need we will send to you for your succour; and
if ye have need, send for us, and we will not tarry, by the faith of our
bodies. It shall not, said Merlin, need that these two kings come again
in the