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15 - Part 2 Story 7 An Adventure Of Sir Gawaine · Tales Of King Arthur And The Round Table

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  Speaker 1: Part two, Story seven of Tales of King Arthur and
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  Speaker 1: the Round Table by Andrew Lang. This LibriVox recording is
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  Speaker 1: in the public domain. Part two Story seven an adventure
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  Speaker 1: of Sir Gawaine. When Sir Gawaine departed, he rode long
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  Speaker 1: without any adventure, from Whitsunday to Michaelmas. He rode and
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  Speaker 1: found not the tenth part of the adventures he was
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  Speaker 1: wont to do. But it befell on a day that
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  Speaker 1: he met Sir Ector de Maris, at which they rejoiced exceedingly,
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  Speaker 1: complaining to one another of the lack of adventure in
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  Speaker 1: the quest on which they were set. Truly, said Sir
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  Speaker 1: Gawaine to Sir Ector, I am nigh weary of this
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  Speaker 1: quest and loath to follow it to further strange countries.
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  Speaker 1: One thing seems strange to me, said Sir Ector. I
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  Speaker 1: have met with twenty knights, and they all complain as
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  Speaker 1: I do. I wonder, said Sir Gawaine, where your brother is.
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  Speaker 1: I can hear nothing of him, answered Sir Ector, nor
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  Speaker 1: of Sir Galahad, Sir Percival, or Sir Bor's. But they farewell,
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  Speaker 1: no doubt, for they have no peers. As they sat
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  Speaker 1: talking there appeared before them a hand showing unto the elbow,
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  Speaker 1: covered with red samite, and holding a great candle that
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  Speaker 1: burned right clear. And the hand passed into the chapel
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  Speaker 1: and vanished. They knew not where. Then they heard a
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  Speaker 1: voice which said, knights full of evil faith and poor belief,
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  Speaker 1: these two things have failed you, and therefore you may
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  Speaker 1: not come to the adventure of the Holy Grail and thereat.
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  Speaker 1: They went to a holy man, to whom they confess
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  Speaker 1: their sins. Said he, this is the meaning of the vision.
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  Speaker 1: You have failed in three things, charity, fasting, and truth,
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  Speaker 1: and have been great murderers, Sir, said Gawaine, by your words,
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  Speaker 1: it seems that our sins will not let us labor
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  Speaker 1: in that quest. Truly answered the hermit, there be an
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  Speaker 1: hundred such as you, to whom it will bring naught
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  Speaker 1: but shame. So Gawaine departed and followed Sir Ector, who
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  Speaker 1: had ridden on before end of Part two, Story seven,