Chapter 460: II

II How Sir Meliagrance took the queen and her knights, which were sore hurt in fighting. So as the queen had Mayed and all her knights, all were bedashed271 with herbs, mosses and flowers, in the best manner and freshest. Right so came out of a wood Sir Meliagrance with an eight score men well harnessed, as they should fight in a battle of arrest, and bade the queen and her knights abide, for maugre their heads they should abide. Traitor knight, said Queen Guenever, what cast thou for to …