avilion. And when she saw her
lord lie at the ground like to be dead, then she cried and wept as she
had been mad. Then with her noise the knight awaked out of his swoon,
and looked up weakly with his eyes; and then he asked her, where was
that mad man that had given him such a buffet: For such a buffet had I
never of man's hand. Sir, said the dwarf, it is not worship to hurt him,
for he is a man out of his wit; and doubt ye not he hath been a man of
great worship, and for some heartly sorrow that he hath taken, he is
fallen mad; and me beseemeth, said the dwarf, he resembleth much unto
Sir Launcelot, for him I saw at the great tournament beside Lonazep.
Jesu defend, said that knight, that ever that noble knight, Sir
Launcelot, should be in such a plight; but whatsomever he be, said that
knight, harm will I none do him: and this knight's name was Bliant. Then
he said unto the dwarf: Go thou fast on horseback, unto my brother Sir
Selivant, that is at the Castle Blank, and tell him of mine adventure,
and bid him bring with him an horse litter, and then will we bear this
knight unto my castle.

CHAPTER II. How Sir Lancelot was carried in an horse litter, and how Sir
Launcelot rescued Sir Bliant, his host.

SO the dwarf rode fast, and he came again and brought Sir Selivant with
him, and six men with an horse litter; and so they took up the feather
bed with Sir Launcelot, and so carried all away with them unto the
Castle Blank, and he never awaked till he was within the castle. And
then they bound his hands and his feet, and gave him good meats and good
drinks, and brought him again to his strength and his fairness; but in
his wit they could not bring him again, nor to know himself. Thus was
Sir Launcelot there more than a year and a half, honestly arrayed and
fair faren withal.

Then upon a day this lord of that castle, Sir Bliant, took his arms, on
horseback, with a spear, to seek adventures. And as he rode in a forest
there met with him two knights adventurous, the one was Breuse Saunce
Pite, and his brother, Sir Bertelot; and these two ran both at once upon
Sir Bliant, and brake their spears upon his body. And then they drew out
swords and made great battle, and fought long together. But at the last
Sir Bliant was sore wounded, and felt himself faint; and then he fled on
horseback toward his castle. And as they came hurling under the castle
whereas Sir Launcelot lay in a window, [he] saw how two knights laid
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