lain, and when she saw she might not escape,
she rode unto a lake thereby, and said, Whatsoever come of me, my
brother shall not have this scabbard. And then she let throw the
scabbard in the deepest of the water so it sank, for it was heavy of
gold and precious stones.

Then she rode into a valley where many great stones were, and when
she saw she must be overtaken, she shaped herself, horse and man, by
enchantment unto a great marble stone. Anon withal came Sir Arthur and
Sir Ontzlake whereas the king might know his sister and her men, and one
knight from another. Ah, said the king, here may ye see the vengeance of
God, and now am I sorry that this misadventure is befallen. And then he
looked for the scabbard, but it would not be found, so he returned to
the abbey where he came from. So when Arthur was gone she turned all
into the likeliness as she and they were before, and said, Sirs, now may
we go where we will.

CHAPTER XV. How Morgan le Fay saved a knight that should have been
drowned, and how King Arthur returned home again.

THEN said Morgan, Saw ye Arthur, my brother? Yea, said her knights,
right well, and that ye should have found an we might have stirred from
one stead, for by his armyvestal countenance he would have caused us to
have fled. I believe you, said Morgan. Anon after as she rode she met
a knight leading another knight on his horse before him, bound hand and
foot, blindfold, to have drowned him in a fountain. When she saw this
knight so bound, she asked him, What will ye do with that knight? Lady,
said he, I will drown him. For what cause? she asked. For I found him
with my wife, and she shall have the same death anon. That were pity,
said Morgan le Fay. Now, what say ye, knight, is it truth that he saith
of you? she said to the knight that should be drowned. Nay truly, madam,
he saith not right on me. Of whence be ye, said Morgan le Fay, and of
what country? I am of the court of King Arthur, and my name is Manassen,
cousin unto Accolon of Gaul. Ye say well, said she, and for the love of
him ye shall be delivered, and ye shall have your adversary in the same
case ye be in. So Manassen was loosed and the other knight bound. And
anon Manassen unarmed him, and armed himself in his harness, and so
mounted on horseback, and the knight afore him, and so threw him into
the fountain and drowned him. And then he rode unto Morgan again, and
asked if she would anything unto King Arthur. Tell him that I