should be come to the Isle of Increase Unsought, and find our
lovelings there.

Now was the night come, and we fell asleep, but belike were not often
all asleep at once; and at last it was, when we felt the dawn drawing
near, though, the moon being down, it was the darkest of the summer
night, that we were all three awake, when all of a sudden we heard
just astern the rushing of the water, as though some keel were
cleaving it, and dimly in the dark we saw a sail as of a boat
overhauling us. Close at hand there rang out a lamentable cry: O,
are ye there, fellows of the Quest? O, help me, friends! save me and
deliver me, who am snatched away to be cast into the hands of my
mistress that was. Help me, Baudoin, Hugh, Arthur! Help! help!

Then all we knew the voice of Birdalone, and Arthur leapt up, and
would have been overboard in a trice had not we two held him, and he
fought and cursed us well-favouredly, there is no nay thereto; and
meanwhile the wailing voice of thee, my sister, died out in the
distance, and the east grew grey, and dawn was come.

Then spake Baudoin: Arthur, my brother, dost thou not mark that this
also was of the same sort of show as those two others, and thou who
wert so wise before? It is but beguilings to bring the Quest to
nought; wherefore call to mind thy manhood and thy much wisdom!

And we admonished him and rebuked him till he became quiet and wise
again, but was sad and downcast and silent. But the Sending Boat
sped on through the dawning, and when it was light we saw that we had
the Isle of Increase close aboard, and we ran ashore there just as
the sun was rising. Fain were we then to get out of the boat and