but of whence be ye? So three of them said they were of Gaul, and other
three said they were of Ireland, and the other three said they were of
Denmark. So as they sat thus there came out a bed of tree, of a chamber,
the which four gentlewomen brought; and in the bed lay a good man sick,
and a crown of gold upon his head; and there in the midst of the place
they set him down, and went again their way. Then he lift up his head,
and said: Galahad, Knight, ye be welcome, for much have I desired your
coming, for in such pain and in such anguish I have been long. But now
I trust to God the term is come that my pain shall be allayed, that
I shall pass out of this world so as it was promised me long ago.
Therewith a voice said: There be two among you that be not in the quest
of the Sangreal, and therefore depart ye.

CHAPTER XX How Galahad and his fellows were fed of the Holy Sangreal,
and how Our Lord appeared to them, and other things.

THEN King Pelles and his son departed. And therewithal beseemed them
that there came a man, and four angels from heaven, clothed in likeness
of a bishop, and had a cross in his hand; and these four angels bare him
up in a chair, and set him down before the table of silver where upon
the Sangreal was; and it seemed that he had in midst of his forehead
letters the which said: See ye here Joseph, the first bishop of
Christendom, the same which Our Lord succoured in the city of Sarras
in the spiritual place. Then the knights marvelled, for that bishop was
dead more than three hundred year to-fore. O knights, said he, marvel
not, for I was sometime an earthly man. With that they heard the chamber
door open, and there they saw angels; and two bare candles of wax, and
the third a towel, and the fourth a spear which bled marvellously, that
three drops fell within a box which he held with his other hand. And
they set the candles upon the table, and the third the towel upon the
vessel, and the fourth the holy spear even upright upon the vessel.
And then the bishop made semblaunt as though he would have gone to
the sacring of the mass. And then he took an ubblie which was made in
likeness of bread. And at the lifting up there came a figure in likeness
of a child, and the visage was as red and as bright as any fire, and
smote himself into the bread, so that they all saw it that the bread was
formed of a fleshly man; and then he put it into the Holy Vessel again,
and then he did that longed to a prie