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    "title": "The High History of the Holy Graal: Branch XXIX",
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    "text": "## The High History of the Holy Graal: Branch XXIX\n\n\nTITLE I.\n\nTherewithal the story is silent of Lancelot, and saith that\nBriant of the Isles is repaired to Cardoil. Of the forty knights\nthat he took with him, but fifteen doth he bring back again.\nThereof is King Arthur right sorrowful, and saith that he hath\nthe fewer friends. They of the land of Albanie have sent to King\nArthur and told him that and he would not lose the land for\nevermore he must send them Lancelot, for never saw they knight\nthat better knew how to avenge him on his enemies and to do them\nhurt than was he. The King asketh Briant of the Isles how it is\nthat his knights are dead in such sort?\n\n\"Sir,\" saith Briant, \"Madeglant hath great force of people, and\nwhat force of men soever may run upon them, they make a castle of\ntheir navy in such sort that none may endure against them, and\nnever did no folk know so much of war as do they. The land lieth\nfar away from you, and more will it cost you to hold it than it\nis worth; and, if you will believe my counsel, you will trouble\nyourself no more about it, and they of the country would be well\ncounselled and they did the same.\"\n\n\"Briant,\" saith the King, \"This would be great blame to myself.\nNo worshipful man ought to be idle in guarding and holding that\nwhich is his own. The worshipful man ought not to hold of things\nso much for their value as for their honour, and if I should\nleave the land disgarnished of my aid and my counsel, they will\ntake mine, and will say that I have not heart to protect my land;\nand even now is it great shame to myself that they have settled\nthemselves there and would fain draw away them of the land to\ntheir evil law. And I would fain that Lancelot had achieved that\nhe hath undertaken, and I would have sent him there, for none\nwould protect the land better than he, and, were he now there\nalong with forty knights and with them of the country, Madeglant\nwould make but short stay there.\"\n\n\"Sir,\" saith Briant, \"They of the country reckon nought of you\nnor any other but Lancelot only, and they say that and you send\nhim there they will make him King.\"\n\n\"It may well be that they say so,\" saith the King, \"But never\nwould Lancelot do aught that should be against my will.\"\n\n\"Sir,\" saith Briant, \"Sith that you are not minded to believe me,\nI will say no more in this matter, but in the end his knighthood\nwill harm you rather than help you and you take no better heed\nthereof than up to this time you have done.\"",
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