Arthur: A Short Sketch of His Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century
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Arthur: A Short Sketch of His Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century
Arthurian romances; Romances, English
Artho_ur_ wolde of hono_ur_ [Fol. 43_b_,
Arthur gives an Hold a fest at Eestour col. 1.] 128
Easter Feast Of regalye & worthynesse,
And feede alle hys frendess;
And sende Messanger
To kynges ferre & neer 132
Þat were to hym Omager,
to come to þis Dyner.
And alle at oo certeyn day
They come þyder in gode aray, 136
And kept þeire Ceson_e_
at Carlyon, At þe Castell_e_ Cayrlyon_e_.
greater than ere Thys fest was Muche Moore
before. Þan euere Artho_ur_ made a-fore; 140
Ten kings were For þere was Vrweyn þe kynge
there, Of scottes at þat dynynge,
Stater þe kyng of south wales,
Cadwell_e_ þe kyng of north waleȝ, 144
Gwylmar þe kyng of yrland,
Dolmad þe kyng of guthland,
Malgan of yselond also,
Archyl of De_n_march þ_er_to, 148
Aloth_e_ þe kyng of Norwey,
Souenas þe kyng of Orkenye,
Of Breteyn þe kyng Hoel,
and thirteen Cador Erl of Cornewell_e_, 152
earls Morice þe Erl of Gloucestr_e_,
Marran Erl of Wy_n_chestre,
Gwergou_n_d Erl of herford,
Booȝ Erl of Oxenford, 156
(including him Of bathe vngent þe Erl also,
of Bath), Cursal of Chestr_e_ þer-to,
Euerad Erl of salesbury[3],
Kynmar Erl of Canterbury, 160
Jonas þe Erl of Dorcestre,
[Arthur's Guests at Cayrlyone.]
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