d returned unto King Arthur, which lay still at the siege. And
when they came to the king they presented their prisoners and recounted
their adventures, and how they had vanquished their enemies.

CHAPTER XII. How Sir Gawaine returned to King Arthur with his prisoners,
and how the King won a city, and how he was crowned Emperor.

NOW thanked be God, said the noble King Arthur. But what manner man is
he that standeth by himself, him seemeth no prisoner. Sir, said Gawaine,
this is a good man of arms, he hath matched me, but he is yielden unto
God, and to me, for to become Christian; had not he have been we should
never have returned, wherefore I pray you that he may be baptised, for
there liveth not a nobler man nor better knight of his hands. Then the
king let him anon be christened, and did do call him his first name
Priamus, and made him a duke and knight of the Table Round. And then
anon the king let do cry assault to the city, and there was rearing of
ladders, breaking of walls, and the ditch filled, that men with little
pain might enter into the city. Then came out a duchess, and Clarisin
the countess, with many ladies and damosels, and kneeling before King
Arthur, required him for the love of God to receive the city, and not
to take it by assault, for then should many guiltless be slain. Then
the king avaled his visor with a meek and noble countenance, and said,
Madam, there shall none of my subjects misdo you nor your maidens, nor
to none that to you belong, but the duke shall abide my judgment. Then
anon the king commanded to leave the assault, and anon the duke's oldest
son brought out the keys, and kneeling delivered them to the king, and
besought him of grace; and the king seized the town by assent of his
lords, and took the duke and sent him to Dover, there for to abide
prisoner term of his life, and assigned certain rents for the dower of
the duchess and for her children.

Then he made lords to rule those lands, and laws as a lord ought to do
in his own country; and after he took his journey toward Rome, and sent
Sir Floris and Sir Floridas to-fore, with five hundred men of arms, and
they came to the city of Urbino and laid there a bushment, thereas them
seemed most best for them, and rode to-fore the town, where anon issued
out much people and skirmished with the fore-riders. Then brake out the
bushment and won the bridge, and after the town, and set upon the walls
the king's banner. Then came the king