her right hand, and so laid her in a barge, and covered it with
black silk; and so the wind arose, and drove the barge from the land,
and all knights beheld it till it was out of their sight. Then they drew
all to the castle, and so forthwith there fell a sudden tempest and a
thunder, lightning, and rain, as all the earth would have broken. So
half the castle turned up-so-down. So it passed evensong or the tempest
was ceased.

Then they saw afore them a knight armed and wounded hard in the body and
in the head, that said: O God, succour me for now it is need. After this
knight came another knight and a dwarf, which cried to them afar: Stand,
ye may not escape. Then the wounded knight held up his hands to God
that he should not die in such tribulation. Truly, said Galahad, I shall
succour him for His sake that he calleth upon. Sir, said Bors, I shall
do it, for it is not for you, for he is but one knight. Sir, said he,
I grant. So Sir Bors took his horse, and commended him to God, and rode
after, to rescue the wounded knight. Now turn we to the two fellows.

CHAPTER XII. How Galahad and Percivale found in a castle many tombs of
maidens that had bled to death.

NOW saith the story that all night Galahad and Percivale were in a
chapel in their prayers, for to save Sir Bors. So on the morrow they
dressed them in their harness toward the castle, to wit what was fallen
of them therein. And when they came there they found neither man nor
woman that he ne was dead by the vengeance of Our Lord. With that
they heard a voice that said: This vengeance is for blood-shedding of
maidens. Also they found at the end of the chapel a churchyard, and
therein might they see a three score fair tombs, and that place was so
fair and so delectable that it seemed them there had been none tempest,
for there lay the bodies of all the good maidens which were martyred for
the sick lady's sake. Also they found the names of everych, and of what
blood they were come, and all were of kings' blood, and twelve of them
were kings' daughters. Then they departed and went into a forest. Now,
said Percivale unto Galahad, we must depart, so pray we Our Lord that
we may meet together in short time: then they did off their helms and
kissed together, and wept at their departing.

CHAPTER XIII. How Sir Launcelot entered into the ship where Sir
Percivale's sister lay dead, and how he met with Sir Galahad, his son.

NOW saith the history, that when La