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    Arthur A Short Sketch of His Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century
    Arthur A Short Sketch of His Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century
    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

    By Frederick James Furnivall

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
    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 - Frederick James Furnivall

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      Title: Arthur, Copied And Edited From The Marquis of Bath's MS

      A Short Sketch of His Life and History in English Verse

      of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century

      Author:

      Editor: Frederick J. Furnivall

      Release Date: October 10, 2005 [EBook #16845]

      Language: English

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      Arthur

      A Short Sketch of His Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century

      Copied and Edited From the Marquis of Bath's MS.

      by

      Frederick J. Furnivall, M.A., Camb.

      Editor of De Borron's and Lonelich's History of the Holy Graal, Walter Map's Queste Del Saint Graal, Etc. Etc.

      London:

      Published for the Early English Text Society,

      by Trübner & Co., 60, Paternoster Row.

      MDCCCLXIV

      Contents

      Preface

      Arthur

      Words

      Notes

      [pg v]

      Preface

      As one of the chief objects of the Early English Text Society is to print every Early English Text relating to Arthur, the Committee have decided that this short sketch of the British hero's life shall form one of the first issue of the Society's publications. The six hundred and forty-two English lines here printed occur in an incomplete Latin Chronicle of the Kings of Britain, bound up with many other valuable pieces in a MS. belonging to the Marquis of Bath. The old chronicler has dealt with Uther Pendragon, and Brounsteele (Excalibur), and is narrating Arthur's deeds, when, as if feeling that Latin prose was no fit vehicle for telling of Arthur, king of men, he breaks out into English verse,

      "Herkeneþ, þat loueþ honour,

      Of kyng Arthour & hys labour."

      The story he tells is an abstract, with omissions, of the earlier version of Geoffry of Monmouth, before the love of Guinevere for Lancelot was introduced by the French-writing English romancers of the Lionheart's time (so far as I know), into the Arthur tales. The fact of Mordred's

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