_(If wine this be) ye come from HUERDAN'S shore._ Huerdan, i. e. Ireland, pronounced, in the Poem, as a dissyllable. 5.--Page 306, stanza xcv. _But never yet the dog our bounty fed Betray'd the kindness or forgot the bread._ The whole of that part of Sir Gawaine's adventures, which includes the incidents of the sword and the hound, is borrowed (with alterations) from one of LE GRAND'S _Fabliaux_. 6.--Page 307, stanza c. _Of evil fame was Nannau's antique tree, Yet styled the "hollow oak of demon race."_ In the domain of Nannau (which now belongs to the Vaughans) was standing, to within a period comparatively recent, the legendary oak called Derwen Ceubren yr Ellyll--the hollow oak, the haunt of demons. 7.--Page 307, stanza ci. _Or prison'd Mawddach clangs his triple chain._ Mawddach, with its three waterfalls. 8.--Page 308, stanza ciii. _And herds of deer as slight as Jura's roe._ The deer in the park of Nannau are singularly small. 9.--Page 312, stanza cxxvii. _Thor ever nursed, or Rana ever knew._ Ran, or Rana, the malignant goddess of the sea, in Scandinavian mythology. BOOK VII. ARGUMENT. Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores. As when, in Autumn nights and Arctic skies, 1 An angel makes the cloud his noiseless car, And, through cerulean silence, silent flies From antique Hesper to some dawning star, So still, so swift, along the windless tides Her vapour-sail the Phantom Lady guides.