...follow so closely at times the very words of Malory. The poet makes Sir Bedivere say to the king — ' I heard the water lapping on the crag, And the long ripple washing in the reeds.' His language in the prose runs — ' Syr, I sawe no thynge but the waters wappe and the waves wanne...

...heavily, What is it thou hast seen ? or what hast heard ? And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere, I beard the water lapping on the crag, And the long ripple washing in the reeds.' What a wonderful sense of loneliness and desolation and deep melancholy these words convey to us !...

...Arthur to Sir Bedivere : " Hast thou perform'd my mission which I gave 1 What is it thou hast seen 1 or what hast heard ?" And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere : " I heard the ripple washing in the reeds, And the wild water lapping on the crag." To whom replied King Arthur,...

...Arthur to Sir Bedivere : " Hast thou perform'd my mission which I gave ? What is it thou hast seen 1 or what hast heard ? " And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere : " I heard the ripple washing in the reeds, And the wild water lapping on the crag." To whom replied King Arthur,...

...reeds, And the wild water lapping on the crag ;" slightly varied, for the other occasion, into — " I heard the water lapping on the crag, And the long ripple washing in the reeds." But, as to this matter of creation, is there, after all, I ask yet, any genuine sense in which a man...

...slow to the wounded King. Then spoke King Arthur, breathing heavily : " What is it thou hast seen ? or what hast heard? " And answer made the bold Sir...! Woe is me ! Authority forgets a dying king, Laid widow 'd of the power in his eye That bow'd the will. I see thee what thou art. • For thou, the latest-left...

...slow to the wounded King. Then spoke King Arthur, breathing heavily : " What is it thou hast seen ? or what hast heard ? " And answer made the bold Sir...! Woe is me ! Authority forgets a dying king, Laid widow'd of the power in his eye That bow'd the will. I see thee what thou art. For thou, the latest-left...

...Arthur to Sir Bedivere : " Hast thou perform'd my mission which I gave ? What is it thou hast seen ? or what hast heard ?" And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere : " I heard the ripple washing in the reeds, And the wild water lapping on the crag." To whom replied King Arthur,...

...slow to the wounded King. Then spoke King Arthur, breathing heavily : " What is it thou hast seen ? or what hast heard ?" And answer made the bold Sir...! Woe is me ! Authority forgets a dying king, Laid widow'd of the power in his eye That bow'd the will. I see thee what thou art, For thou, the latest-left...

...himself, And many a marvel come to pass, Before return of Martelmas. HERRICK. The Faithless Knight. To whom replied King Arthur, much in wrath : Ah, miserable...dying king, Laid widowed of the power in his eye That howed the will. I see thee what thou art. For thou the latest left of all my knights, In whom should...