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We recently covered the story of King Arthur, The Book of Three Wirties, part one, the story of Merlin.

Today we begin the Book of Three Wirties, part two, The Story of Serpellius, as we continue with the stories of King Arthur.

And now the Story of Sir Pelius, Chapter 1,

How Queen Guinevere went a main, and how Sir Pelius took upon him a quest in her behalf.

Our story.

Now it befell upon a pleasant day in the spring time that Queen Guinevere went a

Maine with a goodly company of knights and ladies of her court and among those knights

were Sir Pelius and Sir Geraint and Sir Dinudan and Sir Agleval and Sir Agravain and

Sir Constantine of Cornwall and sundry others so that the like of that court was hardly to be found in all of the world,

either then or before or since. The day was exceedingly pleasant with the sunlight all yellow, like to gold, and the breeze both soft and gentle. The small birds they sang with very great joy, and all about their bloomed so many flowers of diverse sorts that the entire meadows were carpeted with their tender green.

So it seemed to Queen Guinevere that it was very good to be abroad in the field and beneath the sky at such a season.

Now as the Queen and her court walked in great joy among the blossoms, one of the damsels attended

upon the Lady Guinevere cried out of a sudden,

Look, look, who has that cometh yonder?

Thereupon Queen Guinevere lifted up her eyes and she beheld that there came across the meadows a damsel riding upon a

milk-wide paufrey, accompanied by three pages clad in sky blue ramen.

That damsel was also clad entirely in azure and she wore a finely wrought chain of gold about her neck and a fillet of gold about her brows.

And her hair, which was as yellow as gold, was wrapped all about with bands of blue ribbon embroidered with gold.

And one of the pages that followed the damsel bear a square frame of no very great size,

and that the frame was enveloped and covered with a curtain of

crimson satin. Now when the Queen beheld that goodly company approaching

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