_How the battle was finished or king Pellinore came, and how king
Arthur founded an abbey where the battle was._
Therewithal came one to king Arthur, and told him that king Pellinore
was within three mile with a great host; and he said, Go unto him, and
let him understand how we have sped. So within awhile king Pellinore
came with a great host, and saluted the people and the king: and there
was great joy made on every side. Then the king let search how much
people of his party there was slain: and there were found but little
past two hundred men slain, and eight knights of the Table Round in
their pavilions. Then the king let rear and devise in the same place
there as the battle was done a fair abbey, and endowed it with great
livelihood, and let call it the Abbey of La Beale Adventure. But when
some of them came into their countries whereof the five kings were
kings, and told them how they were slain, there was made great dole.
And when all king Arthur’s enemies, as the king of North Wales, and the
kings of the North, wist of the battle they were passing heavy. And so
the king returned to Camelot in haste. And when he was come to Camelot
he called king Pellinore unto him, and said, Ye understand well, that
we have lost eight knights of the best of the Table Round, and by your
advice we will choose eight again of the best we may find in this
court. Sir, said Pellinore, I shall counsel you after my conceit the
best; there are in your court full noble knights both of old and young,
and therefore by mine advice ye shall choose half of the old and half
of the young. Which be the old? said king Arthur. Sir, said king
Pellinore, me seemeth that king Uriens that hath wedded your sister
Morgan le Fay, and the king of the Lake, and Sir Hervise de Revel, a
noble knight, and Sir Galagars the fourth. This is well devised, said
king Arthur, and right so shall it be. Now, which are the four young
knights? said Arthur. Sir, said Pellinore, the first is Sir Gawaine
your nephew, that is as good a knight of his time as any is in this
land; and the second, as me seemeth, is Sir Griflet le Fise de Dieu,
that is a good knight, and full desirous in arms, and who may see him
live he shall prove a good knight; and the third as me seemeth is well
to be one of the knights of the Round Table, Sir Kay the seneschal, for
many times he hath done full worshipfully, and now at your last battle
he did full honourably for to undertake to slay two kings. By my head,
said king Arthur, he is best worthy to be a knight of the Round Table
of any that ye have rehearsed, and he had done no more prowess in his
life days.