Lancelot Speed, And Galahad, nothing afraid, quickly lifted up the stone, and forthwith came out a foul smoke



Date: 1912

Illustration from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by James Knowles

Chapter XII: The Quest of the Sangreal, and the Adventures of Sir Percival, Sir Bors, and Sir Galahad

/.../And Galahad, nothing afraid, quickly lifted up the stone, and forthwith came out a foul smoke, and from the midst thereof leaped up the loathliest figure that ever he had seen in the likeness of man; and Galahad blessed himself, for he knew it was a fiend of hell. Then he heard a voice crying out, “Oh, Galahad, I cannot tear thee as I would; I see so many angels round thee, that I may not come at thee.” /.../

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