country, but as soon as I am dead put me in a boat at the next haven, and let me go as adventure will lead me; and as soon as ye three come to the City of Sarras, there to achieve the Holy Grail, ye shall find me under a tower arrived, and there bury me in the spiritual place; for I say you so much, there Galahad shall be buried, and ye also, in the same place.  Then Percivale understood these words, and granted it her weeping.  And then said a voice:  Lords and fellows, to-morrow at the hour of prime ye three shall depart every each from other, till the adventure bring you to the maimed king.  Then asked she her Saviour; and as soon as she had received it the soul departed from the body.  So the same day was the lady healed, when she was anointed withal.  Then Sir Percivale made a letter of all that she had holpen them as in strange adventures, and put it in her right hand, and so laid her in a barge, and covered it with black silk; and so the wind arose, and drove the barge from the land, and all knights beheld it till it was out of their sight.  Then they drew all to the castle, and so forthwith there fell a sudden tempest and a thunder, lightning, and rain, as all the earth would have broken.  So half the castle turned up so down.  So it passed evensong or the tempest was ceased.  Then they saw afore them a knight armed and wounded hard in the body and in the head, that said:  O God, succour me for now it is need.  After this knight came another knight and a dwarf, which cried to them afar:  Stand, ye may not escape.  Then the wounded knight held up his hands to God that he should not die in such tribulation.  Truly, said Galahad, I shall succour him for His sake that he calleth upon.  Sir, said Bors, I shall do it, for it is not for you, for he is but one knight.  Sir, said he, I grant.  So Sir Bors took his horse, and commended him to God, and rode after, to rescue the wounded knight.  Now turn we to the two fellows.

CHAPTER XII

How Galahad and Percivale found in A castle many tombs of maidens that had bled to death

Now saith the story that all night Galahad and Percivale were in a chapel in their prayers, for to save Sir Bors.  So on the morrow they dressed them in their harness toward the castle, to wit what was fallen of them therein.  And when they came there they found neither man nor woman that he ne was dead by the vengeance of Our Lord.  With that they heard a voice that said:  This vengeance is for blood shedding of maidens.  Also they found at the end of the chapel a churchyard and therein might they see a three score fair tombs, and that place was so fair and so delectable that it seemed them there had been none tempest, for there lay the bodies of all the good maidens which were martyred for the sick lady’s sake.  Also they found the names of every each, and of what blood they were come, and all were of kings’ blood, and twelve of them were kings’ daughters.  Then they departed and went into a forest.  Now, said Percivale unto Galahad, we must depart, so pray we Our Lord that we may meet together in short time:  then they did off their helms and kissed together, and wept at their departing.