Jaufry the Knight and the Fair Brunissende: A Tale of the Times of King Arthur

CHAPTER I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE FOREST.

'Twas {017}on the day of Pentecost, a feast which to Carlisle had drawn a host of knights, that Arthur, King of Briton's isle, his crown placed on his brows, and to the old monastic church proceeded to hear mass. And with him went a brilliant train, the Knights of the Round Table. There were Sir Gawain, Lancelot du Lac, Tristrem, and...