Belphoebe's Misdeeming of Timias

Abstract

In Le Livre de Lancelot del Lac, and taken over from it into Malory, is a story of how Sir Lancelot by craft is brought to lie with Elayne, thinking she is Queen Guinevere. The Queen, discovering it, thinks her lover has been false to her and with violent words banishes him from her presence. Lancelot swoons, then departs from court and runs about “wylde wood as euer was man” (Book xi, Chap. 3). At last he is bound when asleep and taken to a castle where he is cured.