All they of the land and country longed with sorrow for Lancelot, and
said that had he remained there, the land would not have been thus
destroyed, nor might they never have protection of no knight but of him
alone. Briant of the Isles returned back, as he that would the war
against King Arthur should increase on every side, for, what good
soever the King may do him, he loveth him not, nor never will so long
as he is on live. But no semblant thereof durst he show, for, sith
that the best of his knights had been slain in the battle, so had he no
power on his side, as against Lancelot and the good knights of his
fellowship, whereof he would fain that there had been not one.