Chapter 122: I

I How Beaumains came to King Arthur’s Court and demanded three petitions of King Arthur. When Arthur held his Round Table most plenour,82 it fortuned that he commanded that the high feast of Pentecost should be holden at a city and a castle, the which in those days was called Kynke Kenadonne, upon the sands that marched nigh Wales. So ever the king had a custom that at the feast of Pentecost in especial, afore other feasts in the year, he would not go that day to meat until he had heard o…