And the damsel saith to the brachet: "It was not this one I sent you back to fetch, but him that slew this knight." "Know you then, damsel, who hath slain him?" saith Messire Gawain. "Yea," saith she, "well! Lancelot of the Lake slew him in this forest, on whom God grant me vengeance, and on all them of King Arthur's court, for sore mischief and great hurt have they wrought us! But, please God, right well shall this knight yet be avenged, for a right fair son hath he whose sister am I, and so hath he many good friends withal." "Damsel, to God I commend you!" saith Messire Gawain. With that, he issueth forth of the Waste Manor and betaketh him back to the way he had abandoned, and prayeth God grant he may find Lancelot of the Lake. BRANCH V. INCIPIT. Here beginneth again another branch of the Graal in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. TITLE I. Messire Gawain goeth his way and evening draweth on; and on his right hand was there a narrow pathway that seemed him to be haunted of folk. Thitherward goeth he, for that he seeth the sun waxeth low, and findeth in the thick of the forest a great chapel, and without was a right fair manor. Before the chapel was an orchard enclosed of a wooden fence that was scarce so high as a tall man. A hermit that seemed him a right worshipful man was leaning against the fence, and looked into the orchard and made great cheer from time to time. He seeth Messire Gawain, and cometh to meet him, and Messire Gawain alighteth. "Sir," saith the hermit, "Welcome may you be." "God grant you the joy of Paradise," saith Messire Gawain. The hermit