Le Morte Darthur: Studies on the sources

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David Nutt, 1891

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الصفحة 7 - A compilation from earlier historical works made, in the form in which we have it, at the end of the thirteenth or the beginning of the fourteenth century and known by the name of WALTER OF COVENTRY (W.
الصفحة xvi - I require thee and beseech thee heartily, for all the love that ever was betwixt us, that thou never see me more in the visage; and I command thee, on God's behalf, that thou forsake my company, and to thy kingdom...
الصفحة xxi - Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, and therefore she had a good end.
الصفحة xxii - Rather than that gray king, whose name, a ghost, Streams like a cloud, man-shaped, from mountain peak, And cleaves to cairn and cromlech still; or him Of Geoffrey's book, or him of Malleor's...
الصفحة xxiii - What happiness to reign a lonely king, Vext — O ye stars that shudder over me, O earth that soundest hollow under me, Vext with waste dreams...
الصفحة 128 - ... estoit livrés a mort par engien de feme et que sens de feme a le sien sens contrebatu. Et del brait dont je vous parole fu la vois oie par tout le roiaume de Logres si grans et si Ions coume il estoit, et en avinrent 10 moult de mierveilles, si coume li branke le devise mot a mot.
الصفحة 159 - ... al abrode on the see. And therwith the kynge awoke anone, and was sore abasshed of this dreme. And sente anone for a wyse philosopher, commaundynge to telle hym the sygnyfycacion of his dreme. Syre sayd the philosopher, the dragon that thow dremedest of, betokeneth thyn owne persone that sayllest here, & the colours of his wynges ben thy Royames that thow haste wonne, And his taylle whiche is al to tatterd vOL.
الصفحة 287 - Here foloweth the viij book the which is the first book of sir Tristram de Lyones / & who was his fader & his moder / & hou he borne and fosteryd / And how he was made knyghte / " The first part of the MS. would therefore contain part i. of the Vulgate " Tristan," corresponding to Malory's books viii.
الصفحة 292 - ... supposition, we must still say that he left out many of the most touching and admirable portions of the French romances, and that he has incorporated others of inferior quality. The most marked and distressing instance is his preference of the trivial and distasteful version of the Merlin and Niviene episode as found in the 'Suite de Merlin...
الصفحة 11 - I believe Malory adapted them from some now lost French lay. The enumeration of all the knights who, at Arthur's request, handle Vrre's wounds is undoubtedly Malory's own; he seems, as I can prove from other instances, to have had a great predilection for such catalogues of names. The twentieth and twenty-first books are a prose-rendering of the English metrical romance, 'Le Morte Arthur,

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