good, and gave to Pirai in hand, and therewith very much land, and the archbishop’s staff he there gave to Pirai;—­ere was Pirai a good priest, now is he archbishop!  Then bade him Arthur, noblest of kings, that he should arear churches, and restore the hymns, and take charge of God’s folk, and rule them fair.  And he bade all his knights to deem right (just) dooms, and the earth-tillers to take to their craft, and every man to greet other.  And what man soever did worse than the king had ordered, he would drive him to a bare burning, and if it were a base man, he should for that hang.  The yet spake Arthur, noblest of kings, ordered that each man who had lost his land by whatsoever kind of punishment he were bereaved, that he should come again, full quickly and full soon—­the rich and the low—­and should have eft his own, unless he were so foully conditioned, that he were traitor to his lord, or toward his lord forsworn, whom the king should deem lost (beyond the limit of pardon).  There came three brethren, that were royally born, Loth, and Angel, and Urien;—­well are such three men!  These three chieftains came to the king, and set on their knees before the caiser:—­“Hail be thou, Arthur, noblest of kings, and thy people with thee; ever may they well be!  We are three brethren, born of kings.  All our rightful land is gone out of our hand; for the heathen men have made us poor, and wasted us all Leoneis, Scotland, and Moray.  And we pray thee, for God’s love, that thou be to us in aid, and for thy great honour, that thou be mild to us, and give us our rightful land; and we shall love thee, and hold thee for lord, in each land-wise.”  Arthur heard this, noblest of kings, how these three knights fair besought him; he had compassion in heart, and began speak, and said these words—­best of all kings:—­“Urien, become my man; thou shalt to Moray again; thereof thou shalt be called king of the land, and high in my court (or host), with thy forces.  And to Angel I set in hand Scotland altogether; to have it in hand, and be king of the land, from the father to the son; thereof thou shalt my man become.  And thou, Loth, my dear friend—­God be to thee mild!—­thou hast my sister to wife; the better it shall be for thee.  I give thee Leoneis, that is a land fair; and I will lay (add) thereto lands most good, beside the Humber, worth an hundred pounds.  For my father Uther, the while that he was king here, loved well his daughter, who was his desire esteemed; and she is my sister, and sons she hath twain; they are to me in land dearest of all children.”  Thus spake Arthur the king.  Then was Walwain a little child; so was the other, Modred his brother.  But alas! that Modred was born; much harm therefore came!  Arthur proceeded to London, and with him his people; he held in the land a mickle husting, and established all the laws that stood in his elders’ days; all the good laws that era here stood; he set peace, he set protection, and all freedoms.