Chapter 505: XII

XII How Sir Launcelot began to sicken, and after died, whose body was borne to Joyous Gard for to be buried. Then Sir Launcelot never after ate but little meat, ne drank, till he was dead. For then he sickened more and more, and dried, and dwined302 away. For the Bishop nor none of his fellows might not make him to eat, and little he drank, that he was waxen by a cubit shorter than he was, that the people could not know him. For evermore, day and night, he prayed, but sometime he slumbere…