"Fair son," saith she, "Now is the term drawn nigh when I should have
lost my castle and you had not come. But now know I well that it shall
be safe-guarded of you. He that coveteth this castle is one of the
most outrageous knights on live. And he hath reaved me of my land and
the Valleys of Camelot without reasonable occasion. But, please God,
you shall well repair the harm he hath done you, for nought claim I any
longer of the land since you are come. But so avenge your shame as to
increase your honour, for none ought to allow his right to be minished
of an evil man, and the mischiefs that have been done me for that I had
no aid, let them not wax cold in you, for a shame done to one valiant
and strong ought not to wax cold in him, but rankle and prick in him,
so ought he to have his enemies in remembrance without making semblant,
but so much as he shall show in his cheer and making semblant and his
menaces, so much ought he to make good in deed when he shall come in
place. For one cannot do too much hurt to an enemy, save only one is
willing to let him be for God's sake. But truth it is that the
scripture saith, that one ought not to do evil to one's enemies, but
pray God that He amend them. I would fain that our enemies were such
that they might amend toward us, and that they would do as much good to
us without harming themselves as they have done evil, on condition that
mine anger and yours were foregone against them. Mine own anger I
freely forbear against them so far forth as concerneth myself, for no
need have I to wish evil to none, and Solomon telleth how the sinner
that curseth other sinner curseth himself likewise.