Moreover if that much of sorrow came to me, I should deem it not ill,
lest I grow so over-happy that the luck rise up against me and undo
me.
She said, smiling on him kindly: Meseems that I am over-happy,
whereas I have such dear cherishing of noble friends. But now I will
tell thee all, and maybe thou wilt love me the less for the telling.
In these woods here, and lady and mistress of them, dwelleth one who
is not of the race of Adam. And she helped and cherished me and gave
me wisdom when I was tormented and accursed, and she it was who saved
me from the evil witch, and gave me the good hap to meet your loves
and to fetch you to their helping; and twice hath she saved me from
mortal peril otherwise. And she hath found me my love, thy brother
Arthur, and delivered him from unwit and wanhope; and she it is who
drew all you hither unto us, and who delivered you from the felons
who had mastered you. And I have sworn unto her that I would never
wholly sunder me from her; and how shall I break mine oath and grieve
her, even had I the will thereto, as God wot I have not? And she
wept therewith.
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