ountain.

[Sidenote: _Sir Percival and Sir Sagramore depart together._]

When those two good knights awoke and founds that Sir Ewaine had
departed, they communed together in the bedchamber of Sir Percival. And
they agreed that thereafter they two should join company and that in
their further search for Sir Launcelot they should travel together as
companions. So when they had broken their fast, they bade farewell to
the lord of the castle, and departed upon their way, travelling very
cheerfully together, side by side, and taking great joy in the gay and
jocund weather, and in all the sweet freshness and the warmth of the
springtide that embalmed them around about.

So they travelled as companions in arms for more than a year, and in
that time they met with several bel-adventures, some of which are told
of in books of chivalry and some of which are not told of. And I would
that I could recount those adventures that befell them, but I cannot,
for it would take another book as great as this to tell all of the
things that happened to them in their journeyings. Yet it shall here be
said that in those adventurings they fell in with a great many sorts of
folk of different condition, both gentle and simple, and that several
times they met certain knights-companion of the Round Table. And it
shall here be said that they met in that wise with Sir Gawaine and Sir
Bors de Ganis, concerning which meeting there shall be more said anon.

[Sidenote: _Of the manner in which they journey._]

And if you would ask how they lodged them during their travels I would
say that they lodged them in divers sorts and ways. For if it happened
that at one time they would lodge them in such a noble castle as that
where Sir Gawaine and Sir Percival met Sir Sagramore, then it would
happen at another time that they would find shelter in the hut of some
lonely shepherd upon the moorlands, and then it would happen at still
another time that they would even have no shelter at all, but would
maybe wrap themselves each in his cloak with nothing beneath him for a
bed but the cold honest earth, and nothing above him for a coverlet but
the silent company of God's own sky, all sprinkled over with a countless
multitude of brightly shining stars. For so those good knights of old
travelled errant in those days, taking whatever befell them in good
part, and accepting all that came to them with a cheerful spirit.

If you would ask me in what sort of weather they t