ith thee ... Sir Percivale
and Sir Bors."--Ch. 101.
So departed Sir Galahad, and Sir Percivale and Sir Bors with him.
And so they rode three days, and came to a river, and found a ship
... and when on board, they found in the midst the table of silver
and the Sancgreall covered with red samite.... Then Sir Galahad
laid him down and slept ... and when he woke ... he saw the city of
Sarras (ch. 103).... At the year's end ... he saw before him the
holy vessel, and a man kneeling upon his knees in the likeness of
the bishop, which had about him a great fellowship of angels, as it
had been Christ Himself ... and when he came to the sakering of the
Mass, and had done, anon he called Sir Galahad, and said unto him,
"Come forth ... and thou shalt see that which thou hast much
desired to see" ... and he beheld spiritual things ... (ch.
104).--Sir T. Malory, _History of Prince Arthur_, iii. 35, 101, 104
(1470).
The earliest story of the Holy Graal was in verse (A.D. 1100), author
unknown.
Chr['e]tien de Troyes has a romance in eight-syllable verse on the same
subject (1170).
Guiot's tale of _Titurel_, founder of Graalburg, and _Parzival_, prince
thereof, belongs to the twelfth century.
Wolfram von Eschenbach, a minnesinger, took Guiot's tale as the
foundation of his poem (thirteenth century).
In _Titurel the Younger_ the subject is very fully treated.
Sir T. Malory (in pt. iii. of the _History of Prince Arthur_, translated
in 1470 from the French) treats the subject in prose very fully.
R. S. Hawker has a poem on the _Sangraal_, but it was never completed.
Tennyson has an idyll called _The Holy Grail_ (1858).
Boisser['e]e published, in 1834, at Munich, a work _On the Description of
the Temple of the Holy Graal_.
=Sangra'do= (_Doctor_), of Valladolid. This is the "Sagredo" of Espinel's
romance called _Marcos de Obregon_. "The doctor was a tall, meagre, pale
man, who had kept the shears of Clotho employed for forty years at
least. He had a very solemn appearance, weighed his discourse, and used
'great pomp of words.' His reasonings were geometrical, and his opinions
his own." Dr. Sangrado considered that blood was not needful for life,
and that hot water could not be administered too plentifully into the
system. Gil Blas became his servant and pupil, and was allowed to drink
any quantity of water, but to eat only sparingly of beans,
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