After that, he cometh to the other knight, that fain would have fled,
and smiteth off the shoulder close to his side, and he fell dead by the
side of the other. He taketh both twain of their destriers, and
knotteth the reins together and driveth them before him as far as the
house of the hermit, that had issued forth of his hermitage. He
delivered unto him the horse of Aristor and the other of the knight
that he had sent thither.
"Sir," saith Perceval, "Well I know that and you shall see any knight
that hath need of it and shall ask you, you will lend him one of these
horses, for great courtesy is it to aid a worshipful man when one seeth
him in misfortune."
"Sir," saith the hermit, "But now since, were here three knights. So
soon as they knew that the two were dead whose horses you had delivered
unto me, they departed, fleeing the speediest they might. I praised
them much of their going, and told them they did well not to die on
such occasion, for that the souls of knights that die under arms are
nigher to Hell than to Paradise."