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INCIPIT. Here beginneth the last branch of the Graal in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. TITLE I. The story saith that Perceval went his way through the forest. He saw pass before him two squires, and each carried a wild deer trussed behind him that had been taken by hounds. Perceval cometh to them a great pace and maketh them abide. "Lords," saith he, "Whither will you carry this venison?" "Sir," say the squires, "To the castle of Ariste, whereof Aristor is lord." "Is there great throng of knights at the castle?" saith Perceval. "Sir," say the squires, "Not a single one is there, but within four days will be a thousand there, for Messire is about to marry, whereof is great preparation toward. He is going to take the daughter of the Widow Lady, whom he carried off by force before her castle of Camelot, and hath set her in the house of one of his vavasours until such time as he shall espouse her. But we are right sorrowful, for she is of most noble lineage and of great beauty and of the most worth in the world. So is it great dole that he shall have her, for he will cut her head off on the day of the New Year, sith that such is his custom." "And one might carry her off," saith Perceval, "would he not do well therein?" "Yea, Sir!" say the squires, "Our Lord God would be well pleased thereof, for such cruelty is the greatest that ever any knight may have. Moreover, he is much blamed of a good hermit that he hath slain, and every day desireth he to meet the brother of the damsel he is about

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