Then he commended them to God, and took his armor and horse, and rode away amid the prayers of those he had delivered.
CHAPTER IV.
THE TEMPTATION OF SIR PERCIVALE.
Many adventures had the other knights that set out in search of the Sangreal, and much reproof did many of them receive for the evil lives they had led; but all this we cannot stop to tell, but must confine ourselves to the deeds of a few only. As for Sir Gawaine, he parted from Gareth and Uwaine after they had slain the seven wicked knights of the Castle of Maidens, and rode from Whitsuntide to Michaelmas without an adventure. Then came a day in which he met Sir Hector de Maris, and glad were both at the meeting.
"Truly," said Gawaine, "I am growing weary of this quest."
"And I as well," said Hector. "And of the twenty knights I have met from time to time, they all complain as we do."
"Have you met with Lancelot?"
"No, nor with Percivale, Bors, or Galahad. I can learn nothing of these four."