ne a fair abbey, and endowed it with great livelihood,
and let it call the Abbey of La Beale Adventure. But when some of them
came into their countries, whereof the five kings were kings, and
told them how they were slain, there was made great dole. And all King
Arthur's enemies, as the King of North Wales, and the kings of the
North, [when they] wist of the battle, they were passing heavy. And so
the king returned unto Camelot in haste.

And when he was come to Camelot he called King Pellinore unto him, and
said, Ye understand well that we have lost eight knights of the best of
the Table Round, and by your advice we will choose eight again of the
best we may find in this court. Sir, said Pellinore, I shall counsel you
after my conceit the best: there are in your court full noble knights
both of old and young; and therefore by mine advice ye shall choose half
of the old and half of the young. Which be the old? said King Arthur.
Sir, said King Pellinore, meseemeth that King Uriens that hath wedded
your sister Morgan le Fay, and the King of the Lake, and Sir Hervise
de Revel, a noble knight, and Sir Galagars, the fourth. This is well
devised, said King Arthur, and right so shall it be. Now, which are the
four young knights? said Arthur. Sir, said Pellinore, the first is Sir
Gawaine, your nephew, that is as good a knight of his time as any is in
this land; and the second as meseemeth best is Sir Griflet le Fise de
Dieu, that is a good knight and full desirous in arms, and who may see
him live he shall prove a good knight; and the third as meseemeth is
well to be one of the knights of the Round Table, Sir Kay the Seneschal,
for many times he hath done full worshipfully, and now at your last
battle he did full honourably for to undertake to slay two kings. By my
head, said Arthur, he is best worth to be a knight of the Round Table of
any that ye have rehearsed, an he had done no more prowess in his life
days.

CHAPTER V. How Sir Tor was made knight of the Round Table, and how
Bagdemagus was displeased.

NOW, said King Pellinore, I shall put to you two knights, and ye shall
choose which is most worthy, that is Sir Bagdemagus, and Sir Tor, my
son. But because Sir Tor is my son I may not praise him, but else, an he
were not my son, I durst say that of his age there is not in this land
a better knight than he is, nor of better conditions and loath to do
any wrong, and loath to take any wrong. By my head, said Arthur, he is