Tales of the Round table; based on the tales in the Book of romance (1908) (14786826383)

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Title: Tales of the Round table; based on the tales in the Book of romance
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912
Subjects: Arthur, King
Publisher: London, New York (etc.) Longmans, Green and co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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hur, you have indeedwatched me badly. Sir, they replied, we dared not disobeyyour sister when she wished to enter your room. Saddle the best horse that can be found,said the King, ^and bid Sir Ontzlake findanother and make ready to ride with me. Together the two rode away from the Abbey,and stopped only to ask a cowherd if he hadseen a lady pass that way. Yes, said the cowherd, a lady passed byhere, with forty horse behind her, and they rodeinto the forest yonder. They rode on until at last King Arthur sawMorgan le Fay and her company riding aheadthrough the forest. She looked back, and whenshe saw that she was being overtaken, she rodeinto.a lake that lay in the plain at the edge ofthe forest. Into the lake she threw the scab-bard, crying, Whatever betides, my brother shallnot have this, and being heavy with gold andjewels it sank to the bottom. Then she fled into a valley in which greatstones were strewn about, and there she turnedherself and her men and horses into blocks ofmarble.
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30 HOW LE FAY TBIED TO KILL KING ABTHUB. The King had almost overtaken her, andwhen he rode up and found that she and hercompany had disappeared, he thought that someevil had befallen her on account of her misdeeds,and set about searching for the scabbard. High and low he sought for it, but beingunable to find it, he returned to the Abbey. As soon as the King had gone, Morgan leFay turned herself, her men, and her horses intotheir proper shapes again, and with them sherode to the country of Gore, the towns andcastles of which she strengthened, for she greatlyfeared King Arthur. HOW MOKGAN LE FAY TRIED TOKILL KING ARTHUR Part II While Morgan le Fay was strengthening hercastles, and making all preparations to repel theinvasion she expected King Arthur would makeof her territory, he had rested at the Abbey andhad then returned to the Court at Camelot. Hetold the Queen of the adventures he had metwith, how Morgan le Fay had stolen his scabbard, HOW LE FA Y TBIED TO KILL KING ABTHUB. 31 an