Chapter 421: XI

XI How Sir Percivale’s sister bled a dish full of blood for to heal a lady, wherefore she died; and how that the body was put in a ship. There is in this castle a gentlewoman which we and this castle is hers, and many other. So it befell many years agone there fell upon her a malady; and when she had lain a great while she fell unto a measle,242 and of no leech she could have no remedy. But at the last an old man said an she might have a dish full of blood of a maid and a clean virgin in …