n Sir Bliant with their swords. And when Sir Launcelot saw that, yet
as wood as he was he was sorry for his lord, Sir Bliant. And then Sir
Launcelot brake the chains from his legs and off his arms, and in the
breaking he hurt his hands sore; and so Sir Launcelot ran out at a
postern, and there he met with the two knights that chased Sir Bliant;
and there he pulled down Sir Bertelot with his bare hands from his
horse, and therewithal he wrothe his sword out of his hand; and so he
leapt unto Sir Breuse, and gave him such a buffet upon the head that he
tumbled backward over his horse's croup. And when Sir Bertelot saw there
his brother have such a fall, he gat a spear in his hand, and would have
run Sir Launcelot through: that saw Sir Bliant, and struck off the hand
of Sir Bertelot. And then Sir Breuse and Sir Bertelot gat their horses
and fled away.

When Sir Selivant came and saw what Sir Launcelot had done for his
brother, then he thanked God, and so did his brother, that ever they did
him any good. But when Sir Bliant saw that Sir Launcelot was hurt with
the breaking of his irons, then was he heavy that ever he bound him.
Bind him no more, said Sir Selivant, for he is happy and gracious. Then
they made great joy of Sir Launcelot, and they bound him no more; and
so he abode there an half year and more. And on the morn early Sir
Launcelot was ware where came a great boar with many hounds nigh him.
But the boar was so big there might no hounds tear him; and the hunters
came after, blowing their horns, both upon horseback and some upon foot;
and then Sir Launcelot was ware where one alighted and tied his horse to
a tree, and leaned his spear against the tree.

CHAPTER III. How Sir Launcelot fought against a boar and slew him, and
how he was hurt, and brought unto an hermitage.

SO came Sir Launcelot and found the horse bounden till a tree, and a
spear leaning against a tree, and a sword tied to the saddle bow; and
then Sir Launcelot leapt into the saddle and gat that spear in his hand,
and then he rode after the boar; and then Sir Launcelot was ware where
the boar set his arse to a tree fast by an hermitage. Then Sir Launcelot
ran at the boar with his spear, and therewith the boar turned him
nimbly, and rove out the lungs and the heart of the horse, so that
Launcelot fell to the earth; and, or ever Sir Launcelot might get from
the horse, the boar rove him on the brawn of the thigh up to the hough
bone. And then Sir