Chapter 199: II

II How a damosel came into the court and desired a knight to take on him an enquest, which La Cote Male Taile emprised.131 Then that same day there came a damosel into the court, and she brought with her a great black shield, with a white hand in the midst holding a sword. Other picture was there none in that shield. When King Arthur saw her he asked her from whence she came and what she would. Sir, she said, I have ridden long and many a day with this shield many ways, and for this cause…