n the castle of Corbin. This
lady saw how it was with the Lady Elaine and how that she pined in that
wise for Sir Launcelot, and she wist that the Lady Elaine was like to
fall sick unless she had sight of her lord. So Dame Brysen went to Sir
Launcelot one day and she said to him: "Sir, if you find not some
opportunity to see your lady, she will fall ill and maybe wane away to
death because of her longing for you." Sir Launcelot said: "How may I
see her?" Dame Brysen said: "Come to me this night in a certain passage
of the castle during the mid-watch of the night and I will bring you to
her. So you may cherish and comfort her for that while and so she will
take good cheer once more."

[Sidenote: _How Sir Launcelot visiteth the Lady Elaine._]

So that night Sir Launcelot came to the place where Dame Brysen had
appointed and Dame Brysen took him to where was the Lady Elaine. And
when the Lady Elaine beheld Sir Launcelot she could scarce control the
transports of her joy in having him with her once more, for she catched
him in her arms and held to him like as one sinking in deep waters holds
to another who comes to save him. And ever she cried in her transport,
"Thou art here! Thou art here!" And ever Sir Launcelot soothed her and
spake words of comfort to her. So at last she took good cheer and smiled
and laughed as she was wont to do aforetime.

So Sir Launcelot remained with the Lady Elaine for a long while, and
Dame Brysen was with them for all that while, and the damsels of the
court of the Lady Elaine were with them, for Sir Launcelot did not quit
that place until the early watches of the morning were come, what time
the Lady Elaine had fallen asleep like to a child who slumbers.

Then ere it was come the dawning of the day, Sir Launcelot took his
departure and Dame Brysen conducted him thence as she had brought him
thither.

[Sidenote: _The Queen is angered._]

Now there was a fair young damsel of the court of the Queen who acted as
a spy upon Sir Launcelot. So when the next morning had come this damsel
went to the Queen and told her how Dame Brysen had brought Sir Launcelot
to the apartments of the Lady Elaine the night before, and when the
Queen heard that news she was wroth as though she were gone wode, yet
what she did and what she said and how she behaved hath never been told,
for no one beheld her in the madness of her wrath but that damsel who
was the spy and one other. Only it is known that after a whil