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Sayes, ‘I have beene porter-man at thy gate

This thirty winter and three,

But there is ffive knights before itt now,

The like I never did see.’]

King Cornwall questioning the strangers, they happen to speak of a certain shrine of Our Lady, from which he gathers that they have been in Little Britain. This leads him to question them concerning King Arthur.