...the ' Morte d' Arthur,' when Sir Bedivere returns to the king a second time, Arthur asks him : — ' breathing heavily, What is it thou hast seen ? or...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...

...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...

...wounded king. Then spake King Arthur to Sir Bedivere : " Hast thou perform'd my mission which I gave ? What is it thou hast seen ? or what hast heard ? "...answer made the bold Sir Bedivere : " I heard the ripple washing in the reeds, And die 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...

...wounded king. Then spake King Arthur to Sir Bedivere : " Hast thou perform'd my mission which I gave ? What is it thou hast seen ? or what hast heard ?"...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,...

...the water wap and the waves wan."* Idyll.— Then spake King Arthur..." What is it thou hast seen 1 " And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere, " I heard the...water lapping on the crag, And the long ripple washing on the reeds. " Prose. — " Ah, traitor, untrue," said King Arthur, "now hast thou betrayed me two...

...man speak in the aftertime To all the people, winning reverence. But now much honour and much fame were lost." So spake he, clouded with his own conceit, And hid Excalibur the second time, And so strode hack slow to the wounded King. Then spoke King Arthur, breathing heavily : " What is it thou hast seen...

...wounded King. Then spake King Arthur to Sir Bedivere : " Hast thou performed my mission which I gave ? What is it thou hast seen ? or what hast heard ? "...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,...

...wounded King. Then spake King Arthur to Sir Bedivere : " Hast thou performed my mission which I gave ? What is it thou hast seen ? or what hast heard ? "...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,...

...wounded king. Then spake King Arthur to Sir Bedivere : " Hast thou perform'd my mission which I gave ? What is it thou hast seen ? or what hast heard ? "...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,...