"Damsel," saith the King, "I have heard well that which you tell me of
this that you have in charge to say; but tell your Lady on my behalf,
that the Law which the Saviour of the world hath established by His
death and by His crucifixion never will I renounce, for the love that I
have in Him. But tell her that she believe in God and in His sweet
Mother, and that she believe in the New Law, for by the false believe
wherein she abideth is she blinded in such sort, nor never will she see
clear until she believe in God. Tell her moreover, I send her word
that never more shall there be Queen in my land save she be of like
worth as was Queen Guenievre."
"Then I tell you plainly," saith she, "that you will have betimes such
tidings as that good for you they will not be."
The damsel departeth from Cardoil, and cometh back to where the Queen
was, and telleth her the message King Arthur sendeth her. "True," saith
she, "I love him better than all in the world, and yet refuseth he my
will and my commandment. Now may he no longer endure!"
She sendeth to her brother King Madeglant, and telleth him that she
herself doth defy him and he take not vengeance on King Arthur and
bring him not into prison.