Dec 2– From "Le Morte d’Arthur" by Thomas Malory, edited by William Caxton (1485)

 Castle Anthrax!

Dec 2– From Le Morte d’Arthur by Thomas Malory, edited by William Caxton (1485)

Summary: Galahad escaped the Castle of Maidens, beats up Lancelot and Percivale. Lancelot witnesses a healing, and promises not to bang Guinevere (that's gonna go great), and gets called out.

Commentary: Lancelot gets a pretty severe tongue lashing here: 

Now have I shewed thee why thou art harder than the stone and bitterer than the tree. Now shall I shew thee why thou art more naked and barer than the fig tree. It befell that Our Lord on Palm Sunday preached in Jerusalem, and there He found in the people that all hardness was harboured in them, and there He found in all the town not one that would harbour him. And then He went without the town, and found in midst of the way a fig tree, the which was right fair and well garnished of leaves, but fruit had it none. Then Our Lord cursed the tree that bare no fruit; that betokeneth the fig tree unto Jerusalem, that had leaves and no fruit. So thou, Sir Launcelot, when the Holy Grail was brought afore thee, He found in thee no fruit, nor good thought nor good will, and defouled with lechery. Certes, said Sir Launcelot, all that you have said is true, and from henceforward I cast me, by the grace of God, never to be so wicked as I have been, but as to follow knighthood and to do feats of arms.

God brought you the grail, but then decided you sucked.