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Merlin, the ingenious successor of the immortal Merlin, now living in good health and spirits, and flourishing in magical reputation, in Oxford Street; and, on my life, one half who read it would understand it so.
Merlin was there, also well content. And there, when they sat down to the great feast spread out for them, Sir Galahad told the story of his search or the Grail. A long tale it was for they would hear it all. To it they listened in silence, without interruption, until he had done. Though he showed it not, the young knight was eager to be free of all these friends.
Sooth I have said to thee, but it is not to thee the softer; -but flee with thine host, thy foes come to thee to thy court!" Then Merlin the wise ceased his words, and the king caused thirteen trumpets to be blown, and marched forth with his army exceeding quickly.
"You labor in vain." "Who is it that speaks?" asked the knight. "I am Merlin, the enchanter; brought here by my doting folly. I loved not wisely but too well; and here you find me, locked in this cliff by my strongest spells, which in love's witlessness I taught to a woman traitor. Go now, worthy sir, and leave me to my fate." "Alas! that this should be!
And Merlin never went out of that tower where his Mistress Viviane had enclosed him; but she entered and went out again when she listed. After this event Merlin was never more known to hold converse with any mortal but Viviane, except on one occasion.
Long before the year had passed, Merlin came for his necklace. He needed it for another child who told falsehoods. No one can tell to-day what has become of the wonderful Necklace of Truth. But if I were a little child in the habit of telling falsehoods, I should not feel quite sure that it might not be found again some fine day. Anders' New Cap
Call thy council, and abide my return, for now you must fight for your kingdom, O king, and for your very life. The voice ceased, and the shadow and the vivid eyes it half concealed died away with it. Into the council-chamber three days later, while men waited for they knew not what, Merlin entered. 'What news do you bring, Merlin? they cried. 'Of civil war! he said.
Mother Shipton, for instance, our famous old English witch, of whom so many funny stories are still told, is evidently very much wronged in her picture, if she was not of the most terrible aspect imaginable; and, if it be true, Merlin, the famous Welch fortune-teller, was a most frightful figure. If we credit another story, he was begotten by "old nick" himself.
Her thoughts followed Merlin as if her substance had been changed into his shadow. All the court had assembled for dinner, when she entered the banquet hall behind the shame-faced Dame Caecilia, who made a curtsey to the floor as she explained to the King that the beggar-maid, being lacking in art, refused the silken clothes. "She would wear only this crown of wood violets."
Vortigern was soon after defeated in a great battle by Uther and Pendragon, the surviving brothers of Moines, and Pendragon ascended the throne. This prince had great confidence in the wisdom of Merlin, and made him his chief adviser. About this time a dreadful war arose between the Saxons and Britons.
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