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another, which brought them to hand, where they fell upon many strange adventures. And when they had wrought many great deeds, they departed from each other. But first Sir Percivale’s sister died, being bled to death, so that another lady might live, and she prayed them to lay her body in a boat and leave the boat to go as the winds and waves carried it. And so it was done, and Sir Percivale wrote a letter telling how she had helped them in all their adventures; and he mt it in her right hand, and laid her in a barge, and covered it with black silk. And the wind arose and drove it from their sight.
