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they anivel at a castio, and the lady • out at the head of her damsels to welBut to a bait his compsud n. d to by a criminal, or st i ast el her no; however, to obi've “gr sented. At supper Sir Lauerka 2 corsigned to the kitchen, and w: a to the lady's table at the earnest soli r Gawia. Neither would to dan sels d for him. Ho sized the fest: fund

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xt morning he saw from the turrets of the cas 1. a train accompagtag a lady, whom he imagined be the queen. Sie Gaw; in thought it might b> 10, and became equally eager to depart of the castle supplied Sir Launcelet with a horse, on ey traversed the p'un at full speed. They learnt i zom some travellers whom they set, the thre wer ve roads which lel to the ca. ie of Sir Malea jous.

Here therefore the friends separated. Sir Launcelot found his way beset with obstacles, which he encountered successfully, but not without much loss of time. As evening approached, he was met by a young and sportive damsel, who gayly proposed to him a supper at her castle. The knight, who was hungry and weary, accepted the offer, though with no very good grace. He followed the lady to her castle, and eat voraciously of her supper, but was quite impenetrable to all her amorous advances. Suddenly the scene changed, and he was assailed by six furious ruffians, whom he dealt with so vigorously that most of them were speedily disabled, when again there was a change, and he found himself alone with his fair hostess, who informed him that she was none other than his guardian fairy, who had but subjected him to tests of his courage and fidelity. The next day the fairy brought him on his road, and before parting gave him a ring, which she told him would by its changes of color disclose to him all enchantments, and enable him to subdue them.

Sir Launcelot pursued his journey, without being much incommoded except by the taunts of travellers, who all seemed to have learned, by some means, his disgraceful drive in the cart. One, more insolent than the rest, had the audacity to interrupt him during dinner, and even to risk.a battle in support of his pleasantry. Launcelot, after an easy victory, only doomed him to be carted in his turn.