He argueth out that there can be but one Beast. The people, at first throwing him coins, soon desert him to follow a foolish Egyptian wizard. He then learneth music, from a vile girl, until he is as skilful as Orpheus. Among the dunes of Brittany he findeth a witch dancing and conjuring, until she disappeareth in a blaze of light. Yet can he not catch It It outrunneth him easily, and at last, stumbling, he falleth. He therefore climbeth many mountains of the Alps.
Sir Palamede noteth the swiftness of the Beast. Sir Palamede, sore wounded, is born by fishers to an hut. Running like hippogriffs, they plunge over the precipice and the hermit, dead, appears but a mangy ass. Sir Palamede compelleth him to pursue the quarry in this same fashion. In Crete a metaphysician weaveth a labyrinth. Baiting for It with gilded corn in a moonlit vale of Spain, he findeth the bait stolen by vermin. Mistaking orgasm for ecstasy, he is found ridiculous. In a Tuscan grove he findeth, from the antics of a Satyr, that the Gods still dwell with men. He chaseth and slayeth it it proveth to be but a child's toy. At Rome he meeteth a red robber in a Hat, who speaketh nobly of It as of a king-dove-lamb. The Beast, starting up, is slain by him with a poisoned arrow but at the moment of Its death It is reborn from the knight's own belly.
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At Naples he thinketh of the Beast as author of Evil, because Free of Will. An ancient hag prateth of It as Evangelical. Therefore Sir Palamede unreasonably decapitateth him. A Scythian sage declareth that It transcendeth Reason. The elephant escapeth but he, led to Trichinopoli by an Indian lad, seeth an elephant forced to dance ungainly before the Mahalingam. Seeking It as Majesty, he chaseth an elephant in the Indian jungle. Vainly fighting the waves, the leaves, and the snows, he is swept in the Himalayas by an avalanche into a valley where dwell certain ascetics, who pelt him with their eyeballs. Coming to India, he leameth that It glittereth. Furious he taketh a Viking ship, and by sword and whip fareth seaward. He rideth eastward, and findeth the sun setting in the west. Sir Pa1amede, riding forth on the quest, seeth a Druid worship the sun upon Stonehenge. He returneth, and, touching the dwarf but with his finger, hurleth him to the heaven. Lancelot findeth him upon Scawfell, clothed in his white beard. The knights fail to lift him, this being the test of worthiness. He having become in holy hermit, a certain dwarf, splendidly clothed, cometh to Arthur's court, bearing tidings of a Questing Beast. By this sacrifice he saves the world of chivalry. At the end of his resources among the Welsh mountains, he is compelled to put to death his only remaining child. Hearing that his fall is to be but the prelude to an attack on Camelot, he maketh a desperate night sortie, and will traverse the wilds of Wales. Sir Palamede is besieged in his castle by Severn mouth, and his wife and son are slain. Her he slayeth, and burneth all that encampment.
On the shore of Arabia he findeth his mother in the embrace of a loathly negro beneath blue pavilions. Sir Palamede, the Saracen knight, riding on the shore of Syria, findeth his father's corpse, around which an albatross circleth.
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