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The Legend of the Holy Grail

its Sources, Character and Development, by Dorothy Kempe. The introduction to, and Part V of, Herry Lovelich's verse "History of the Holy Grail,"
Lovelich, Henry

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THE HISTORY OF THE HOLY GRAIL.
 XI. 
CHAPTER XI.
 XII. 
CHAPTER XII.
 XIII. 
CHAPTER XIII.
 XIV. 
CHAPTER XIV. SERAPHE'S DEEDS, AND THE END OF THE BATTLE.
 XV. 
CHAPTER XV.
 XVI. 
CHAPTER XVI.
 XVII. 
CHAPTER XVII.
 XVIII. 
CHAPTER XVIII.
 XIX. 
CHAPTER XIX.
 XX. 
CHAPTER XX.
 XXI. 
CHAPTER XXI.
 XXII. 
CHAPTER XXII.
 XXIII. 
CHAPTER XXIII.
 XXIV. 
CHAPTER XXIV.
 XXV. 
CHAPTER XXV.
 XXVI. 
CHAPTER XXVI.
 XXVII. 
CHAPTER XXVII.
 XXVIII. 
CHAPTER XXVIII.
 XXIX. 
CHAPTER XXIX.
 XXX. 
CHAPTER XXX.
 XXXI. 
CHAPTER XXXI.
 XXXII. 
CHAPTER XXXII.
 XXXIII. 
CHAPTER XXXIII.
 XXXIV. 
CHAPTER XXXIV.
 XXXV. 
CHAPTER XXXV. THE ADVENTURES OF THE MESSENGERS WHO GO TO SEEK NASCIENS.
 XXXVI. 
CHAPTER XXXVI. THE HISTORY OF THE PHYSICIAN YPOCRAS.
 XXXVII. 
CHAPTER XXXVII. OF THE TEMPTATIONS OF THE TWO MESSENGERS AND THE DAMSEL; AND OF THEIR MEETING WITH MORDREYNS, NASCIENS, AND CELIDOYNE.
 XXXVIII. 
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
 XXXIX. 
CHAPTER XXXIX. OF NASCIENS'S FURTHER ADVENTURES, AND HIS GENEALOGY.
 XL. 
CHAPTER XL. OF FLEGENTYNE'S MEEKNESS, AND HOW SHE HAS THE THREE TOMBS BUILT AND CARVED.
 XLI. 
CHAPTER XLI. HOW JOSEPH AND HIS COMPANIONS CROSS OVER TO BRITAIN ON JOSEPHES'S SHIRT.
 XLII. 
CHAPTER XLII. NASCIENS, AND THE SINNERS OF JOSEPH'S COMPANY, LAND IN BRITAIN, MEET JOSEPH, AND THEN CELIDOYNE.
 XLIII. 
CHAPTER XLIII. OF DUKE GAANORT'S VISIONS AND THEIR INTERPRETATION.
 XLIV. 
CHAPTER XLIV. OF THE CONVERSION OF DUKE GAANORT AND HIS PEOPLE.
 XLV. 
CHAPTER XLV. HOW JOSEPHES WAS IMPRISOND, AND HOW MORDREINS ARRIVD IN GREAT BRITAIN.
 XLVI. 
CHAPTER XLVI. HOW MORDREINS DELIVERS JOSEPHES, IS STRUCK BLIND, AND TURNS HERMIT; AND HOW CELIDOYNE IS MARRIED.
 XLVII. 
CHAPTER XLVII. OF JOSEPHES IN CAMELOT, AND OF KING AGRESTES'S TREACHERY AND DEATH.
 XLVIII. 
CHAPTER XLVIII. OF MOYS'S PRESUMPTION AND ITS PUNISHMENT; AND OF BRONS AND HIS SONS, AND ALEYN THE GROS.
 XLIX. 
CHAPTER XLIX. OF JOSEPH'S ADVENTURES, AND HOW HE BRINGS A DEAD MAN BACK TO LIFE.
 L. 
CHAPTER L. OF JOSEPH'S FURTHER ADVENTURES; AND OF THE CRIMES OF CHANAAN AND SYMEN.
 LI. 
CHAPTER LI. OF THE FATE OF CHANAAN, AND OF PIERS'S WOUND.
 LII. 
CHAPTER LII. OF PIERS'S ADVENTURES. HOW HE IS CURED, AND BEATS KING ORCAWS, KILLS KING MARAHANS, MARRIES CAMYLLE, BEGETS HERLAWNT, AND IS BURID.
 LIII. 
CHAPTER LIII. OF JOSEPHES AGAIN, AND OF HIS YOUNGEST BROTHER GALAS.
 LIV. 
CHAPTER LIV. HOW JOSEPH DIED, AND JOSEPHES ‘PASTE TO GOD IN A BLESID TYME.’
 LV. 
CHAPTER LV. HOW CASTLE CORBENIE IS BUILT FOR THE HOLY GRAAL, AND VENGEANCE IS DONE FOR DESPITE TO IT AND SOLOMON'S SWORD.
 LVI. 
CHAPTER LVI. OF CELIDOYNE AND HIS DEATH, AND THE GOOD KING LANCELOT. OF THE BLEEDING TOMB, AND THE END OF THE HISTORY OF THE HOLY GRAAL.

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“For that power haven not we
Him hol to Maken In non degre;
But helthe Aȝen to him Most gon
Be him that him it leide vppon;
And elles but he wele him hele sende,
Be vs get he non In non Ende.”
Thanne Axede him the king Anon tho
‘Howgh Aȝens the Egipciens he scholde do;
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ȝif with hem heeld he Ony bataille,
In what Manere it myhte him Availle.’
Thanne the devel him Answerid ful sone,
“Þere-Offen Answere mown we ȝeven þe none:
Tyl that goddis Man be Owt past,
Of vs An Answere non thow hast.”
Thanne spak Josephes there Anon Ryht,
“I Conioure the be the vertu of God Almyht,
And be the myht Also Of the Trenite,
That the sothe here thou schewe to me.”
And the devel him Answerid Agein
“That he ne Cowde not In Certein;
Of thing that was to Come, he Cowde not telle,
What Aventure so that him Euere befelle.”
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