"Cecil
intimated
that she must go to bed, if it were
only to satisfy her people.
only to satisfy her people.
Tennyson
', v.
:
"'That is untruly said of thee,' said the king, 'therefore go thou
lightly again and do my command as thou to me art lief and dear; spare
not, but throw in. '
Then Sir Bedivere returned again and took the sword in his hand, and
then him thought sin and shame to throw away that noble sword, and so
eft he hid the sword and returned again, and told the king that he had
been to the water and done his commandment. "]
[Footnote 7: This line was not inserted till 1853. ]
[Footnote 8: 'Romance, Id. ', v. :
"'Ah, traitor untrue! ' said King Arthur, 'now thou hast betrayed me
twice. Who would have weened that thou that hast been so lief and
dear, and thou that art named a noble knight, would betray me for the
riches of the sword. But now go again lightly. . . . And but if thou do
not now as I bid thee, if ever I may see thee I shall slay thee with
mine own hands. "']
[Footnote 9: There is a curious illustration of this in an anecdote told
of Queen Elizabeth.
"Cecil intimated that she must go to bed, if it were
only to satisfy her people.
'Must! ' she exclaimed; 'is must a word to be addressed to princes?
Little man, little man, thy father if he had been alive durst not have
used that word, but thou hast grown presumptuous because thou knowest
that I shall die. '"
Lingard, 'Hist'. , vol. vi. , p. 316. ]
[Footnote 10: 'Romance, Id'. , v. :
"Then Sir Bedivere departed and went to the sword and lightly took it
up and went to the waterside, and then he bound the girdle about the
hilt and then he threw the sword as far into the water as he might,
and then came an arm and a hand above the water, and met it and caught
it and so shook it thrice and brandished it, and then vanished away
the hand with the sword in the water. "]
[Footnote 11: 'Romance, Id. ', v. :
"'Alas,' said the king, 'help me hence for I dread me I have tarried
over long'.
Then Sir Bedivere took the king upon his back and so went with him to
that water.
"'That is untruly said of thee,' said the king, 'therefore go thou
lightly again and do my command as thou to me art lief and dear; spare
not, but throw in. '
Then Sir Bedivere returned again and took the sword in his hand, and
then him thought sin and shame to throw away that noble sword, and so
eft he hid the sword and returned again, and told the king that he had
been to the water and done his commandment. "]
[Footnote 7: This line was not inserted till 1853. ]
[Footnote 8: 'Romance, Id. ', v. :
"'Ah, traitor untrue! ' said King Arthur, 'now thou hast betrayed me
twice. Who would have weened that thou that hast been so lief and
dear, and thou that art named a noble knight, would betray me for the
riches of the sword. But now go again lightly. . . . And but if thou do
not now as I bid thee, if ever I may see thee I shall slay thee with
mine own hands. "']
[Footnote 9: There is a curious illustration of this in an anecdote told
of Queen Elizabeth.
"Cecil intimated that she must go to bed, if it were
only to satisfy her people.
'Must! ' she exclaimed; 'is must a word to be addressed to princes?
Little man, little man, thy father if he had been alive durst not have
used that word, but thou hast grown presumptuous because thou knowest
that I shall die. '"
Lingard, 'Hist'. , vol. vi. , p. 316. ]
[Footnote 10: 'Romance, Id'. , v. :
"Then Sir Bedivere departed and went to the sword and lightly took it
up and went to the waterside, and then he bound the girdle about the
hilt and then he threw the sword as far into the water as he might,
and then came an arm and a hand above the water, and met it and caught
it and so shook it thrice and brandished it, and then vanished away
the hand with the sword in the water. "]
[Footnote 11: 'Romance, Id. ', v. :
"'Alas,' said the king, 'help me hence for I dread me I have tarried
over long'.
Then Sir Bedivere took the king upon his back and so went with him to
that water.
