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Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Thomas Malory
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the poor man; Sir, I ask nothing else but that ye will make my
son here a knight. It is a great thing thou askest of me, said
the king. What is thy name? said the king to the poor man. Sir,
my name is Aries the cowherd. Whether cometh this of thee or of
thy son? said the king. Nay, sir, said Aries, this desire cometh
of my son and not of me, for I shall tell you I have thirteen
sons, and all they will fall to what labour I put them, and will
be right glad to do labour, but this child will not labour for
me, for anything that my wife or I may do, but always he will be
shooting or casting darts, and glad for to see battles and to
behold knights, and always day and night he desireth of me to be
made a knight. What is thy name? said the king unto the young
man. Sir, my name is Tor. The king beheld him fast, and saw he
was passingly well-visaged and passingly well made of his years.
Well, said King Arthur unto Aries the cowherd, fetch all thy sons
afore me that I may see them. And so the poor man did, and all
were shaped much like the poor man. But Tor was not like none of
them all in shape nor in countenance, for he was much more than
any of them. Now, said King Arthur unto the cow herd, where is
the sword he shall be made knight withal? It is here, said Tor.
Take it out of the sheath, said the king, and require me to make
you a knight.

Then Tor alighted off his mare and pulled out his sword,
kneeling, and requiring the king that he would make him knight,
and that he might be a knight of the Table Round. As for a
knight I will make you, and therewith smote him in the neck with
the sword, saying, Be ye a good knight, and so I pray to God so
ye may be, and if ye be of prowess and of worthiness ye shall be
a knight of the Table Round. Now Merlin, said Arthur, say
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