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I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

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What, nephew, said the king, is the wind in that door?

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The very purpose of a knight is to fight on behalf of a lady.

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Then Sir Launcelot saw her visage, but he wept not greatly, but sighed.

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Such a fellowship of good knights shall never be together in no company.

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With that truncheon thou hast slain a good knight, and now it sticketh in thy body.

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Knight, keep well thy head, for thou shalt have a buffet for the slaying of my horse.

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The noble history of the Sangreal, and of the most renowned Christian king... King Arthur.

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Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil, is rightwise King born of all England.

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For, as I suppose, no man in this world hath lived better than I have done, to achieve that I have done.

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Well, said Merlin, I know whom thou seekest, for thou seekest Merlin; therefore seek no farther, for I am he.

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In the midst of the lake Arthur was ware of an arm clothed in white samite, that held a fair sword in that hand.

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God defend me, said Dinadan, for the joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.

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For as well as I have loved thee, mine heart will not serve me to see thee, for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed.

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Always Sir Arthur lost so much blood that it was a marvel he stood on his feet, but he was so full of knighthood that knightly he endured the pain.

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And many men say that there is written upon his tomb this verse: Hic iacet Arthurus, rex quondam rexque futurus [Here lies Arthur, the once and future king].

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Thus endeth the story of the Sangreal, that was briefly drawn out of French into English, the which is a story chronicled for one of the truest and the holiest that is in this world.

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Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place; and men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the holy cross.

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