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All of us uncovered, and remained thus till he passed from sight, to be seen no more by many of those who gazed sadly after his retreating form. There is an old book my grandchildren love to hear me read to them. It is the "Morte d'Arthur," done into English by Sir Thomas Malory. My years go on in peace. We have enough far more than enough for all the wants and even for the luxuries of life.
Susan Malory had been discreetly sent away on a visit. None of the men of the family had arrived. There was a party of local neighbours, who did not feel the want of anything to do, but lived in dread of flushing the Vidame and Matilda out of a window seat whenever they entered a room. As for the Vidame, being destitute of all other entertainment, he made love in a devoted manner.
In the Idylls of the King, the parting of Guinevere and Arthur was what interested Tennyson; the poets of today would of course centre attention on the parting of Guinevere and Lancelot, and like so many "advances," they would in truth be only going back to old Malory.
There were innumerable Arthur romances in prose and verse, in Anglo-Norman and continental French dialects, in English, in German, and in other tongues. But the final form which the saga took in mediæval England was the prose Morte Dartur of Sir Thomas Malory, composed at the close of the 15th century. This was a digest of the earlier romances, and is Tennyson's main authority.
If we have lost the inspiration that creates, we have, at least, learned to venerate and cherish the noble works of our progenitors. The Morte d'Arthur was translated, according to Caxton, by Sir Thomas Malory, who took it "out of certain books of French and reduced it into English."
The Story of the Holy Graal, in this book, is mostly taken from Malory, but partly from 'The High History of the Holy Graal, translated by Dr. Sebastian Evans from an old French book. What was the Holy Graal? In the stories it is the holy vessel used by our Lord, and brought to Britain by Joseph of Arimathea.
Beautiful these ‘Idylls’ are indeed, but they are not more beautiful than work of his that went before. The rich Klondyke of Malory and Geoffrey of Monmouth had not escaped the eyes of previous prospectors.
The "Coming of Arthur," as related in the idyll, is throughout an invention of Tennyson's, or culled from other sources, and differs entirely from the story of Arthur's origin as told by Malory. But the legend that has suffered the most from poetical license is that of the "Holy Grail."
We have followed it down through many forms: Welsh, in the stories of The Mabinogion; Latin, in the stories of Geoffrey of Monmouth; French, in the stories of Wace and Map; Semi-Saxon, in the stories of Layamon; Middle English, in the stories of Malory; and at last English as we now speak it, in the stories of Tennyson.
The papers were 'requested to state that the marriage announced between the Vidame de la Lain and Miss Malory will not take place. Why it did not take place was known only to Mrs. Malory, Mrs. Brown-Smith, and Merton.
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