"By my head," saith the King, "I am fain to love you and hold you dear,
nor shall you never be removed from my love nor from my service for
nought that may be said of any, so manifestly have I seen your goodness
and your loyalty. I will bid Lancelot by my letters and under my seal
that he come to speak with me, for sore need have I thereof, and when
he shall be here we will take account of this that you have told me,
for this will I not, that he nor none other that may be my knight shall
dare rise in arms against me, for such power ought lord of right to
have over his knight, and to be feared and dreaded of him, for elsewise
is he feeble, and lordship without power availeth nought."