rescued
thee, not for the love of him but for the love of Accolon, and tell him
I fear him not while I can make me and them that be with me in likeness
of stones; and let him wit I can do much more when I see my time. And
so she departed into the country of Gore, and there was she richly
received, and made her castles and towns passing strong, for always she
dreaded much King Arthur.

When the king had well rested him at the abbey, he rode unto Camelot,
and found his queen and his barons right glad of his coming. And when
they heard of his strange adventures as is afore rehearsed, then all had
marvel of the falsehood of Morgan le Fay; many knights wished her burnt.
Then came Manassen to court and told the king of his adventure. Well,
said the king, she is a kind sister; I shall so be avenged on her an I
live, that all Christendom shall speak of it. So on the morn there came
a damosel from Morgan to the king, and she brought with her the richest
mantle that ever was seen in that court, for it was set as full of
precious stones as one might stand by another, and there were the
richest stones that ever the king saw. And the damosel said, Your sister
sendeth you this mantle, and desireth that ye should take this gift of
her; and in what thing she hath offended you, she will amend it at your
own pleasure. When the king beheld this mantle it pleased him much, but
he said but little.

CHAPTER XVI. How the Damosel of the Lake saved King Arthur from mantle
that should have burnt him.

WITH that came the Damosel of the Lake unto the king, and said, Sir,
I must speak with you in privity. Say on, said the king, what ye will.
Sir, said the damosel, put not on you this mantle till ye have seen
more, and in no wise let it not come on you, nor on no knight of yours,
till ye command the bringer thereof to put it upon her. Well, said King
Arthur, it shall be done as ye counsel me. And then he said unto the
damosel that came from his sister, Damosel, this mantle that ye have
brought me, I will see it upon you. Sir, she said, It will not beseem me
to wear a king's garment. By my head, said Arthur, ye shall wear it or
it come on my back, or any man's that here is. And so the king made it
to be put upon her, and forth withal she fell down dead, and never more
spake word after and burnt to coals. Then was the king wonderly wroth,
more than he was to-forehand, and said unto King Uriens, My sister,
your wife, is alway about to betray me,