And he was sober and
sorrowful, but nought fierce or wild.
So Birdalone thanked him kindly and praised him, and he changed
countenance no whit therefor.
Then they mounted and set forth, and the knight led straight into the
wood, and by roads that he wotted of, so that they went nowise slowly
for wenders through the thick woodland. Thus went they on their way
together, he sorry and she glad.
But now leaves the tale to tell of Birdalone and the knight on whom
she happened in the Black Valley of the Greywethers, and turns to the
Castle of the Quest and the folk thereof, and what they did in this
while and thereafter.
Here ends the Fourth Part of the Water of the Wondrous Isles, which
is called Of the Days of Abiding, and the Fifth Part now begins,
which is called The Tale of the Quest's Ending.
THE FIFTH PART: THE TALE OF THE QUEST'S ENDING
CHAPTER I. OF SIR LEONARD'S TROUBLE AND THE COMING OF THE QUEST
Tells the tale that when the chaplain had departed from Birdalone at
the bower in the copse, he went home to the castle sadly enough,
because of his love and longing for her, which well he wotted might
never be satisfied.
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