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vasour's daughter that are straightway alighted, and the Vavasour thanketh Lancelot much of the honour he hath done his daughter. Therewith he departeth from the castle and rideth amidst the forest the day long, and meeteth a damsel and a dwarf that came a great gallop. "Sir," saith the damsel to Lancelot, "From whence come you?" "Damsel," saith he, "I come from the Vavasour's castle that is in this forest." "Did you meet," saith she, "a knight and a damsel on your way?" "Yea," saith Lancelot, "He hath wedded her." "Say you true?" saith she. "I tell you true," saith Lancelot, "But had I not been there, he would not have wedded her." "Shame and ill adventure may you have thereof, for you have reft me of the thing in the world that most I loved. And know you well of a truth that joy of him shall she never have, and if the knight had been armed as are you, never would he have done your will, but his own. And this is not the first harm you have done me; you and Messire Gawain between you have slain my uncle and my two cousins-german in the forest, whom behoved me bury in the chapel where you were, there where my dwarf that you see here was making the graves in the burial-ground." "Damsel," saith Lancelot, "true it is that I was there, but I departed from the grave-yard, honour safe." "True," saith the dwarf, "For the knights that were there were craven, and failed." "Fair friend," saith Lancelot, "Rather would I they should be coward toward me than hardy." "Lancelot," saith the damsel, "Much outrage have you done, for you slew the Knight of the Waste House, there whither the brachet led Messire Gawain, but had he there been known, he would not have departed so soon, for he was scarce better loved than you, and God grant you may find a knight that may abate the outrages that are in your heart and in his; for great rejoicing would there be thereof, for many a good knight have you slain, and I myself will bring about trouble for you, so quickly as I may." XV. Thereupon the dwarf smiteth the mule with his whip, and she departeth. Lancelot would answer none of her reviling, wherefore he departed forthwith, and rideth so long on his journeys that he is come back to the house of the good King Hermit, that maketh right great joy of him. And he telleth him that he hath been unto the house of King Fisherman, his brother that lieth in languishment, and telleth him also how he hath been honoured in h
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