brought me. Why say ye so?
said Sir Launcelot, I did never this knight no harm, for hither by
feute of blood this brachet brought me; and therefore, fair lady, be
not displeased with me, for I am full sore aggrieved of your grievance.
Truly, sir, she said, I trow it be not ye that hath slain my husband,
for he that did that deed is sore wounded, and he is never likely to
recover, that shall I ensure him. What was your husband's name? said Sir
Launcelot. Sir, said she, his name was called Sir Gilbert the Bastard,
one of the best knights of the world, and he that hath slain him I know
not his name. Now God send you better comfort, said Sir Launcelot; and
so he departed and went into the forest again, and there he met with a
damosel, the which knew him well, and she said aloud, Well be ye found,
my lord; and now I require thee, on thy knighthood, help my brother that
is sore wounded, and never stinteth bleeding; for this day he fought
with Sir Gilbert the Bastard and slew him in plain battle, and there was
my brother sore wounded, and there is a lady a sorceress that dwelleth
in a castle here beside, and this day she told me my brother's wounds
should never be whole till I could find a knight that would go into the
Chapel Perilous, and there he should find a sword and a bloody cloth
that the wounded knight was lapped in, and a piece of that cloth and
sword should heal my brother's wounds, so that his wounds were searched
with the sword and the cloth. This is a marvellous thing, said Sir
Launcelot, but what is your brother's name? Sir, she said, his name was
Sir Meliot de Logres. That me repenteth, said Sir Launcelot, for he is
a fellow of the Table Round, and to his help I will do my power. Then,
sir, said she, follow even this highway, and it will bring you unto the
Chapel Perilous; and here I shall abide till God send you here again,
and, but you speed, I know no knight living that may achieve that
adventure.

CHAPTER XV. How Sir Launcelot came into the Chapel Perilous and gat
there of a dead corpse a piece of the cloth and a sword.

RIGHT so Sir Launcelot departed, and when he came unto the Chapel
Perilous he alighted down, and tied his horse unto a little gate. And as
soon as he was within the churchyard he saw on the front of the chapel
many fair rich shields turned up-so-down, and many of the shields Sir
Launcelot had seen knights bear beforehand. With that he saw by him
there stand a thirty great knights, mor