Identifier: pageesquireknighlans (find matches)
Title: Page, esquire, and knight : a book of chivalry
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Lansing, Marion Florence, 1883-
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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D KNIGHT and to the south and to the east. As thechronicler tells it, Many kings and lordsmade great war against him ; but well Arthurovercame them all. That Arthur could bring all this aboutwas due to the noble prowess of his knightsof the Round Table. As soon as he becameking he gathered about him all the bestknights of the realm, both those whom he hadcause to know were mighty and those whomMerlin deemed the best of all. They had beencalled the knighthood errant of the realm, forthey wandered through all the land and acrossthe seas seeking adventure and taking part intournaments and jousts or in any service thatcame in their path. There were many ofthese knights in England, but none had evergathered them together. Each went his ownway and did what seemed best in his own eyes. King Arthur sent through the length andbreadth of the land, summoning those whomhe had chosen as the best of these knights tocome together and form with him a brother-hood of knighthood, which should be called
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18 PAGE, ESQUIRE, AND KNIGHT the Round Table. There were to be onehundred and fifty in all, but the king foundonly one hundred and twenty-eight who couldfulfill all his wishes. When they came togetherthey were the flower of all the knights ofChristendom. There in Camelot Arthur had built a mightyhall wherein the brotherhood should meet,and there had been set seats for all theknights. These seats the archbishop blessedin the presence of them all, and when it wasdone, and they sat silent before him, Merlinspoke to them, saying, Fair sirs, ye must allarise and come to King Arthur for to do himhomage. And they arose and did their homagegladly, crying, Be thou the king, and wewill work thy will. Then Arthur spoke to them as they stoodbefore him, and bound them to himself withsolemn vows. He charged them never to dooutrage nor murder, and to flee treason as itwere a plague; never to be cruel, but to givemercy, and always to aid women even unto THE VOWS OF THE ROUND TABLE 19 death; to take u

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