ad women
should both be cut in twain, and half of each be given to the two
litigants. To this Sir Sanglier gladly assented; but the squire
objected, declaring it would be far better to give the lady to the
knight than that she should suffer death. On this, Sir Artegal
pronounced the living woman to be the squire's wife, and the dead one to
be the knight's.--Spenser, _Fa[:e]ry Queen_, v. 1 (1596).

("Sir Sanglier" is meant for Shan O'Neil, leader of the Irish insurgents
in 1567. Of course this judgment is borrowed from that of Solomon, 1
_Kings_ iii. 16-27.)

=Sanglier des Ardennes=, Guillaume de la Marck (1446-1485).

=Sangraal=, =Sancgreal=, etc., generally said to be the holy plate from
which Christ ate at the Last Supper, brought to England by Joseph of
Arimathy. Whatever it was, it appeared to King Arthur and his 150
knights of the Round Table, but suddenly vanished, and all the knights
vowed they would go in quest thereof. Only three, Sir Bors, Sir
Percivale and Sir Galahad, found it, and only Sir Galahad had touched
it, but he soon died, and was borne by angels up into heaven. The
Sangraal of Arthurian romance is "the dish" containing Christ
transubstantiated by the sacrament of the Mass, and made visible to the
bodily eye of man. This will appear quite obvious to the reader by the
following extracts:--

Then anon they heard cracking and crying of thunder.... In the
midst of the blast entered a sunbeam more clear by seven times than
the day, and all they were alighted of the grace of the Holy
Ghost.... Then there entered into the hall the Holy Grale covered
with white samite, but there was none that could see it, nor who
bare it, but the whole hall was full filled with good odors, and
every knight had such meat and drink as he best loved in the world,
and when the Holy Grale had been borne through the hall, then the
holy vessel departed suddenly, and they wist not where it
became.--Ch. 35.

Then looked they and saw a man come out of the holy vessel, that
had all the signs of the passion of Christ, and he said ... "This
is the holy dish wherein I ate the lamb on Sher-Thursday, and now
hast thou seen it ... yet hast thou not seen it so openly as thou
shalt see it in the city of Sarras ... therefore thou must go hence
and bear with thee this holy vessel, for this night it shall depart
from the realm of Logris ... and take w