achieved the quest of the Holy Graal." This
Elaine was not the "lily maid of Astolat."

While Sir Launcelot was visiting King Pelles, a glimpse of the Holy
Graal was vouchsafed them:

For when they went into the castle to take their repast ... there
came a dove to the window, and in her bill was a little censer of
gold, and there withall was such a savour as though all the spicery
of the world had been there ... and a damsel, passing fair, bare a
vessel of gold between her hands, and thereto the king kneeled
devoutly and said his prayers.... "Oh, mercy!" said Sir Launcelot,
"what may this mean?" ... "This," said the king, "is the Holy
Sancgreall which ye have seen."--Sir T. Malory, _History of Prince
Arthur_, iii. 2 (1470).

=Pellinore= (_Sir_), king of the isles and knight of the Round Table (pt.
i. 57). He was a good man of power, was called "The Knight with the
Stranger Beast," and slew King Lot of Orkney, but was himself slain ten
years afterwards by Sir Gawain, one of Lot's sons (pt. i. 35). Sir
Pellinore (3 _syl._) had, by the wife of Aries, the cowherd, a son named
Sir Tor, who was the first knight of the Round Table created by King
Arthur (pt. i. 47, 48); one daughter, Elein, by the Lady of Rule (pt.
iii. 10); and three sons in lawful wedlock; Sir Aglouale (sometimes
called Aglavale, probably a clerical error), Sir Lamorake Dornar (also
called Sir Lamorake de Galis), and Sir Percivale de Gralis (pt. ii.
108). The widow succeeded to the throne (pt. iii. 10).--Sir T. Malory,
_History of Prince Arthur_ (1470).

Milton calls the name "Pellenore" (2 _syl._).

Fair damsels, met in forests wide
By knights of Logres, or of Lyones,
Lancelot, or Pelleas, or Pellenore.

Milton.

=Pelob'ates= (4 _syl._), one of the frog champions. The word means
"mud-wader." In the battle he flings a heap of mud against Psycarpax,
the Hector of the mice, and half blinds him; but the warrior mouse
heaves a stone "whose bulk would need ten degenerate mice of modern days
to lift," and the mass, falling on the "mud-wader," breaks his
leg.--Parnell, _Battle of the Frogs and Mice_, iii. (about 1712).

=Pel'ops' Shoulder=, ivory. The tale is that Dem[=e]ter ate the shoulder
of Pelops when it was served up by Tan'talos for food. The gods restored
Pelops to life by putting the dismembered body into a caldron, but found
that it lacked a shoulder; whereupon Demeter supplied