XII.

"By my faith." saith Messire Gawain, "Behoveth me do the damsel's

pleasure sith that we have fallen by ill-chance into her power."

They went to bed at night and took their rest as soon as they had

eaten, and on the morrow the damsel came to Messire Gawain.

"I will," saith she, "that you be clad in the same arms as was your

comrade on the first day, right rich, that I will lend you, and I will,

moreover, that you be knight so good as that never on any day were you

better. But I command you, by the faith you pledged me the other day,

to obey this caution, that you make yourself known to none, and so any

man in the world shall ask your name, you shall say that you are the

knight of the Golden Arms."

"Damsel," saith Gawain, "Gramercy, I will do your pleasure."

The younger damsel cometh back to the King: "Sir," saith she, "I will

that you wear new arms: You shall bear them red, the same as Messire

Gawain bore the first day, and I pray you be such as you were the first

day, or better."

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