Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Thomas Malory
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of measure, and purveyed him for a great host, as it rehearseth
after in the book of Balin le Savage, that followeth next after, how by adventure Balin gat the sword. Explicit liber primus. Incipit liber secundus BOOK II CHAPTER I Of a damosel which came girt with a sword for to find a man of such virtue to draw it out of the scabbard. AFTER the death of Uther Pendragon reigned Arthur his son, the which had great war in his days for to get all England into his hand. For there were many kings within the realm of England, and in Wales, Scotland, and Cornwall. So it befell on a time when King Arthur was at London, there came a knight and told the king tidings how that the King Rience of North Wales had reared a great number of people, and were entered into the land, and burnt and slew the king's true liege people. If this be true, said Arthur, it were great shame unto mine estate but that he were mightily withstood. It is truth, said the knight, for I saw the host myself. Well, said the king, let make a cry, that all the lords, knights, and gentlemen of arms, should draw unto a castle called Camelot in those days, and there the king would let make a council-general and a great jousts. |
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