and bad him:  Arise, and speak with a gentlewoman that seemeth hath great need of you.  Then Galahad went to her and asked her what she would.  Galahad, said she, I will that ye arm you, and mount upon your horse and follow me, for I shall show you within these three days the highest adventure that ever any knight saw.  Anon Galahad armed him, and took his horse, and commended him to God, and bad the gentlewoman go, and he would follow there as she liked.

CHAPTER II

How sir Galahad rode with A damosel, and came to the ship whereas sir Bors and sir Percivale were in

So she rode as fast as her palfrey might bear her, till that she came to the sea, the which was called Collibe.  And at the night they came unto a castle in a valley, closed with a running water, and with strong walls and high; and so she entered into the castle with Galahad, and there had he great cheer, for the lady of that castle was the damosel’s lady.  So when he was unarmed, then said the damosel:  Madam, shall we abide here all this day?  Nay, said she, but till he hath dined and till he hath slept a little.  So he ate and slept a while till that the maid called him, and armed him by torchlight.  And when the maid was horsed and he both, the lady took Galahad a fair child and rich; and so they departed from the castle till they came to the seaside; and there they found the ship where Bors and Percivale were in, the which cried on the ship’s board:  Sir Galahad, ye be welcome, we have abiden you long.  And when he heard them he asked them what they were.  Sir, said she, leave your horse here, and I shall leave mine; and took their saddles and their bridles with them, and made a cross on them, and so entered into the ship.  And the two knights received them both with great joy, and every each knew other; and so the wind arose, and drove them through the sea in a marvellous place.  And within a while it dawned.  Then did Galahad off his helm and his sword, and asked of his fellows from whence came that fair ship.  Truly, said they, ye wot as well as we but of God’s grace; and then they told every each to other of all their hard adventures, and of their great temptations.  Truly, said Galahad, ye are much bounden to God, for ye have escaped great adventures; and had not the gentlewoman been I had not come here, for as for you I weened never to have found you in these strange countries.  Ah Galahad, said Bors, if Launcelot, your father, were here then were we well at ease, for then meseemed we failed nothing.  That may not be, said Galahad, but if it pleased Our Lord.  By then the ship went from the land of Logris, and by adventure it arrived up betwixt two rocks passing great and marvellous; but there they might not land, for there was a swallow of the sea, save there was another ship, and upon