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TRULY, said Sir Launcelot, I thank you all of your good saying, howbeit,
I wot well, in me was not all the stability of this realm, but in that
I might I did my devoir; and well I am sure I knew many rebellions in
my days that by me were peaced, and I trow we all shall hear of them in
short space, and that me sore repenteth. For ever I dread me, said Sir
Launcelot, that Sir Mordred will make trouble, for he is passing envious
and applieth him to trouble. So they were accorded to go with Sir
Launcelot to his lands; and to make short tale, they trussed, and paid
all that would ask them; and wholly an hundred knights departed with Sir
Launcelot at once, and made their avows they would never leave him for
weal nor for woe.

And so they shipped at Cardiff, and sailed unto Benwick: some men call
it Bayonne, and some men call it Beaune, where the wine of Beaune is.
But to say the sooth, Sir Launcelot and his nephews were lords of all
France, and of all the lands that longed unto France; he and his kindred
rejoiced it all through Sir Launcelot's noble prowess. And then Sir
Launcelot stuffed and furnished and garnished all his noble towns and
castles. Then all the people of those lands came to Sir Launcelot on
foot and hands. And so when he had stablished all these countries, he
shortly called a parliament; and there he crowned Sir Lionel, King of
France; and Sir Bors [he] crowned him king of all King Claudas' lands;
and Sir Ector de Maris, that was Sir Launcelot's youngest brother,
he crowned him King of Benwick, and king of all Guienne, that was Sir
Launcelot's own land. And he made Sir Ector prince of them all, and thus
he departed.

Then Sir Launcelot advanced all his noble knights, and first he advanced
them of his blood; that was Sir Blamore, he made him Duke of Limosin
in Guienne and Sir Bleoberis he made him Duke of Poictiers, and Sir
Gahalantine he made him Duke of Querne, and Sir Galihodin he made him
Duke of Sentonge, and Sir Galihud he made him Earl of Perigot, and Sir
Menadeuke he made him Earl of Roerge, and Sir Villiars the Valiant he
made him Earl of Bearn, and Sir Hebes le Renoumes he made him Earl of
Comange, and Sir Lavaine he made him Earl of Arminak, and Sir Urre he
made him Earl of Estrake, and Sir Neroneus he made him Earl of Pardiak,
and Sir Plenorius he made Earl of Foise, and Sir Selises of the Dolorous
Tower he made him Earl of Masauke, and Sir Melias de Lile he made him
Earl of Tursauk, and Si