LE MORTE D'ARTHUR ep1-18
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THE Classic Arthurian folklore. A drama of illicit love, the magic of sorcery, and the quest for the Holy Grail. A ignominious and chivalrous tale that's been recounted for centuries. All the famous characters are here... King Arthur, Guinevere, and Lancelot, Merlin, Excalibur, the sword in the stone, and all the Knights of the Round Table. StoryLink Radio presents here the original epic tale from Thomas Mallory first published in the year 1485. [new chapter added daily!]
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CHAPTER XVIII
How King Arthur, King Ban, and King Bors rescued King Leodegrance, and other incidents.
CHAPTER XVIII
How King Arthur, King Ban, and King Bors rescued King Leodegrance, and other incidents.
AND then King Arthur, and King Ban, and King
Bors departed with their fellowship, a twenty thousand, and came within six
days into the country of Cameliard, and there rescued King Leodegrance, and
slew there much people of King Rience, unto the number of ten thousand men, and
put him to flight. And then had these three kings great cheer of King
Leodegrance, that thanked them of their great goodness, that they would revenge
him of his enemies; and there had Arthur the first sight of Guenever, the
king's daughter of Cameliard, and ever after he loved her. After they were
wedded, as it telleth in the book. So, briefly to make an end, they took their
leave to go into their own countries, for King Claudas did great destruction on
their lands. Then said Arthur, I will go with you. Nay, said the kings, ye
shall not at this time, for ye have much to do yet in these lands, therefore we
will depart, and with the great goods that we have gotten in these lands by
your gifts, we shall wage good knights and withstand the King Claudas' malice,
for by the grace of God, an we have need we will send to you for your succour;
and if ye have need, send for us, and we will not tarry, by the faith of our
bodies. It shall not, said Merlin, need that these two kings come again in the
way of war, but I know well King Arthur may not be long from you, for within a
year or two ye shall have great need, and then shall he revenge you on your
enemies, as ye have done on his. For these eleven kings shall die all in a day,
by the great might and prowess of arms of two valiant knights (as it telleth
after); their names be Balin le Savage, and Balan, his brother, that be
marvellous good knights as be any living.
Now turn we to the eleven kings that returned
unto a city that hight Sorhaute, the which city was within King Uriens', and
there they refreshed them as well as they might, and made leeches search their
wounds, and sorrowed greatly for the death of their people. With that there
came a messenger and told how there was come into their lands people that were
lawless as well as Saracens, a forty thousand, and have burnt and slain all the
people that they may come by, without mercy, and have laid siege on the castle
of Wandesborow. Alas, said the eleven kings, here is sorrow upon sorrow, and if
we had not warred against Arthur as we have done, he would soon revenge us. As
for King Leodegrance, he loveth Arthur better than us, and as for King Rience,
he hath enough to do with Leodegrance, for he hath laid siege unto him. So they
consented together to keep all the marches of Cornwall, of Wales, and of the
North. So first, they put King Idres in the City of Nauntes in Britain, with
four thousand men of arms, to watch both the water and the land. Also they put
in the city of Windesan, King Nentres of Garlot, with four thousand knights to
watch both on water and on land. Also they had of other men of war more than
eight thousand, for to fortify all the fortresses in the marches of Cornwall.
Also they put more knights in all the marches of Wales and Scotland, with many
good men of arms, and so they kept them together the space of three year, and
ever allied them with mighty kings and dukes and lords. And to them fell King
Rience of North Wales, the which and Nero that was a mighty man of men. And all
this while they furnished them and garnished them of good men of arms, and
victual, and of all manner of habiliment that pretendeth to the war, to avenge
them for the battle of Bedegraine, as it telleth in the book of adventures
following.
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