“Well,” said Sir Percival, “since you beseech that upon my knighthood I must needs do as you ask.  But I will only do so upon two conditions.  The first of these conditions is that you go to the court of King Arthur, and that you surrender yourself as captive to a damsel of that court who is known as the Lady Yelande the Dumb Maiden.  And you are to tell that maiden that the young knight who slew Sir Boindegardus greets her and that he tells her that in a little while he will return to repay to Sir Kay that buffet he gave her.  This is my first condition.”  And Sir Engeneron said:  “I will perform that condition.”

“And my second condition,” said Sir Percival, “is this:  that you give me your armor for me to use upon this adventure which I have undertaken, and that you take my armor and deposit it with the hermit of a little chapel you shall after a while come to if you return upon the road which brought me hither.  After a while I will return and reclaim my armor and will return your armor.  This is my second condition.”

And Sir Engeneron said:  “That condition also I shall fulfil according to your command.”

[Sidenote:  Sir Percival and Sir Engeneron exchange armor] Then Sir Percival said:  “Arise.”  And Sir Engeneron did so.  And after that Sir Engeneron put off his armor, and Sir Percival put off his armor.  And Sir Percival put on the armor of Sir Engeneron, and Sir Engeneron packed the armor of Sir Percival upon his horse and prepared to depart in obedience to those conditions of Sir Percival.  So they parted company, Sir Percival riding upon his way to Beaurepaire, and Sir Engeneron betaking his way to find the chapel of that hermit of whom Sir Percival had spoken.

So it was that after two adventures, Sir Percival entered upon that undertaking which he had come to perform in behalf of the Lady Blanchefleur.

And now, if it please you to read what follows, you shall hear how it befell with Sir Percival at the castle of Beaurepaire.

After that adventure with Sir Engeneron, Sir Percival rode onward upon his way, and by and by he came to the lake whereon stood the castle and the town of Beaurepaire.  And Sir Percival beheld that a long narrow bridge crossed over that part of the lake from the mainland to the island and the town.  So Sir Percival rode very boldly forth upon that bridge and across it, and no one stayed him, for all of the knights of Sir Clamadius who beheld him said:  “Yonder rides Sir Engeneron.”  Thus Sir Percival crossed the bridge and rode very boldly forward until he came to the gate of the castle, and those who beheld him said:  “Sir Engeneron haply beareth a message to the castle.”  For no one wist that that knight was not Sir Engeneron, but all thought that it was he because of the armor which he wore.

[Sidenote:  Sir Percival cometh to Beaurepaire] So Sir Percival came close to the castle, and when he was come there he called very loudly to those within, and by and by there appeared the face of a woman at an upper window and the face was very pale and woe-begone.