Thereinto entered the damsel all alone, and found great multitude of
tombs and coffins. Nor none need wonder whether she had shuddering and
fear, for such place must needs be dreadful to a lonely damsel, there
where lay so many knights that had been slain in arms. Josephus the
good clerk witnesseth us that within the grave-yard might no evil
spirit meddle, for that Saint Andrew the apostle had blessed it with
his hand. But never might no hermit remain within for the evil things
that appeared each night all round about, that took the shapes of the
knights that were dead in the forest, wherof the bodies lay not in the
blessed burial-ground.