_Arthur's Spear_, Rone. Geoffrey calls it Ron. It was made of ebony.--_British History_, ix. 4 (1142). His spere he nom an honde tha Ron wes ihaten. Layamon. _Brut_, (twelfth century). _Arthur's Sword_, Escal'ibur or Excal'ibur. Geoffrey calls it Caliburn, and says it was made in the isle of Avallon.--_British History_, ix. 4 (1142). The temper of his sword, the tried Escalabour, The bigness and the length of Rone, his noble spear, With Pridwin, his great shield. Drayton, _Polyolbion_, iv. (1612). _Arthur's Round Table_. It contained seats for 150 knights. Three were reserved, two for honor, and one (called the "siege perilous") for sir Galahad, destined to achieve the quest of the sangreal. If any one else attempted to sit in it, his death was the certain penalty. [Illustration] There is a table so called at Winchester, and Henry VIII. showed it to François I. as the very table made by Merlin for Uther the pendragon. And for great Arthur's seat, her Winchester prefers, Whose old round table yet she vaunteth to be hers. M. Drayton, _Polyolbion_, ii. (1612). _Arthur_ (_King_), in the burlesque opera of _Tom Thumb_, has Dollallolla for his queen, and Huncamunca for his daughter. This dramatic piece, by Henry Fielding, the novelist, was produced in 1730, but was altered by Kane O'Hara, author of _Midas_, about half a century later. ARTHURIAN ROMANCES. _King Arthur and the Round Table_, a romance in verse (1096). _The Holy Graal_ (in verse, 1100). _Titurel_, or _The Guardian of the Holy Graal_, by Wolfram von Eschenbach. Titurel founded the temple of Graalburg as a shrine for the holy graal. _The Romance of Parzival_, prince of the race of the kings of Graalburg. By Wolfram of Eschenbach (in verse). This romance (written about 1205) was partly founded upon a French poem by Chrétien de Troyes, _Parceval le Gallois_ (1170). _Launcelot of the Lake_, by Ulrich of Zazikoven, contemporary with William Rufus. _Wigalois_, or _The Knight of the Wheel_, by Wirnd of Graffenberg. This adventurer leaves his mother in Syria, and goes in search of his father, a knight of the Round Table. _I'wain_, or _The Knight of the Lion_, and _Ereck_, by Hartmann von der Aue (thirteenth century). _Tristan and Yseult_ (in verse), by Master Grottfried of Strasburg (thirteenth century). This is also the subject of Luc du Grast's prose romance, which was revised by Elie de Borron, and turned into verse by Thomas the Rhymer, of Erceldoune, under the title of the _Romance of Tristram_. _Merlyn Ambroise_, by Robert de Borron. _Roman des diverses Quétes de St. Graal_, by Walter Mapes (prose). _La Morte d'Arthur_, by Walter Mapes. _A Life of Joseph of Arimathea_, by Robert de Borron.