You're going to do. Welcome back everyone to one thousand one classic short stories and

tales. This is your host John Hagadorn.

Today we return to the story of King Arthur and his Knights, the story of Sir Pelius,

Chapter 5 and 6. The title of Chapter five, how Sir Gawain met Sir Pelius, and how he promised

to aid him with the Lady Etard.

Now after that wonderful lady had disappeared from their sight in that manner, those three

knights stood for a little while altogether astonished, for they wished not how to believe

what their eyes had beheld.

Then by and by Sir Gawain Spake saying,

Certainly that was a very wonderful thing that happened to us,

for in all my life I never knew so strange a miracle to befall.

Now it is very plain that some excellent adventure lieth in what we have seen.

Wherefore let us descend into Yonder Valley,

For there we shall doubtless discover what that signifies

which we have just now beheld.

For I make my vow that I've hardly ever seen so terribly powerful a night as he who has just

now fought Yonder battle, wherefore I can

and knowwise understand why, when he should so nearly have obtained a victory over his enemies,

he should have surrendered himself to them as he did.

And Sir E. Wayne and Sir Marhaus agreed that it would be well to go down and inquire what was the

meaning of that which they had beheld.

So they three and their attendance rode down into the valley.

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