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In subject-matter the book belongs to the mediæval age; but Malory himself, with his desire to preserve the literary monuments of the past, belongs to the Renaissance; and he deserves our lasting gratitude for attempting to preserve the legends and poetry of Britain at a time when scholars were chiefly busy with the classics of Greece and Rome.
The Dutch MS. is of the commencement of the fourteenth century, and appears to represent a compilation similar to that with which Sir Thomas Malory has made us familiar, i.e., a condensed rendering of a number of Arthurian romances which in their original form were independent of each other.
Then came what he called, after his Malory, the Stumps Perilous. Between them there was but just room to drive in fact the delicate points of the whiffle tree scratched the polished surfaces of them on either hand. Bobby loved to imagine them as the mighty guardians of the land beyond, and he always held his breath until they had been passed in safety.
And there received him three queens with great mourning, and so they set him down, and in one of their laps King Arthur laid his head, and then that queen said, 'Ah, dear brother, why have ye tarried so long from me?" After the dusky barge has borne Arthur away from mortal sight, Malory writes: "Here in this world he changed his life."
Malory of course brings the prose-scale down very considerably from its uncomfortably meteoric position, and some other things help: but the total of prose and verse before 1500 can be brought level by no possible sleight of weighing.
If they can give us any single "French book" the reference to which is a commonplace of the subject from which it was taken, let them; they have not yet. It is what the artist does with his materials, not where he gets them, that is the question. And Malory has done, with his materials, a very great thing indeed.
So, in the space between Halbert's bog and the burn, the mellay rang and wavered, the long spears of the Scottish ranks unbroken and pushing forward, the ground before them so covered with fallen men and horses that the English advance was clogged and crushed between the resistance in front and the pressure behind. "God will have a stroke in every fight," says the romance of Malory.
He did this more than any other writer in that he wrote in English such as all English-speaking people must love to read. *J. Furnivell Stories of King Arthur's Knights, by Mary Macgregor. Stories from Morte d'Arthur, by C. L. Thomson. Morte d'Arthur, Globe Edition. FOUR hundred years after Malory wrote his book, another English writer told the tales of Arthur anew.
The Cambridge History of English Literature, Vol. Snell's The Age of Transition, 1400-1580. Morley's English Literature, Vols. VI. and VII. Minto's Characteristics of English Poets, pp. 69-130. Saintsbury's Short History of English Literature, pp. 157-218. Dictionary of National Biography, articles on Malory, Caxton, Henryson, Gawain Douglas, Dunbar, Tyndale, Wyatt, and Surrey.
Soap, on the other hand, is the result of human artifice, and is certainly advertised with more of emphasis and of ingenuity than of delicacy. But, by her own line of descent, Mrs. Brown-Smith came from a Scottish house of ancient standing, historically renowned for its assassins, traitors, and time- servers. This partly washed out the stain of soap. Again, Mrs. Malory had heard the name of Mrs.
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