Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Preliminaries
- 2 The Sources of “The Tale of King Arthur”
- 3 The Sources of “The Tale of Arthur and Lucius”
- 4 The Sources of “The Tale of Sir Launcelot”
- 5 The Sources of “The Tale of Sir Gareth”
- 6 The Sources of “The Tale of Sir Tristram”
- 7 The Sources of “The Tale of The Sankgreal”
- 8 The Sources of “The Tale of Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere”
- 9 The Sources of “The Morte Arthur”
- 10 Conclusions
- Appendix: Analogues to Malory's “Love and Summer” Passage
- Works Cited
- Index
- ARTHURIAN STUDIES
Appendix: Analogues to Malory's “Love and Summer” Passage
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Preliminaries
- 2 The Sources of “The Tale of King Arthur”
- 3 The Sources of “The Tale of Arthur and Lucius”
- 4 The Sources of “The Tale of Sir Launcelot”
- 5 The Sources of “The Tale of Sir Gareth”
- 6 The Sources of “The Tale of Sir Tristram”
- 7 The Sources of “The Tale of The Sankgreal”
- 8 The Sources of “The Tale of Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere”
- 9 The Sources of “The Morte Arthur”
- 10 Conclusions
- Appendix: Analogues to Malory's “Love and Summer” Passage
- Works Cited
- Index
- ARTHURIAN STUDIES
Summary
a. For knights ever should be persevering
To seeke honour without feintise or slough,
Fro wele to better, in all maner thing;
In signe of which, with leaves aye lasting
They be rewarded after their degree,
Whose lusty green May may not appaired be,
But aye keping their beauty fresh and greene,
For there nis storme that may hem deface,
Haile nor snow, wind nor frosts kene;
Wherfore they have this propertie and grace,
And for the floure within a little space
Woll be lost, so simple of nature
They be, that they no greevance may endure.
The Floure and the Leafe, ed. Derek Pearsall (London: Nelson and Sons, 1962) lines 548–60.
b. The monþes vary, eueryche haþ his sygne
And harde hit ys all wedyrs for to know,
The tyme somewhyle ys gracious & benygne,
An vppon hilles and valeys þat ben low
The iiij. wyndes contrariosly do blow
In every storme man ys here abydyng,
Som to release, & som to overthrow,
How shuld man þan be stedfast of lyuyng?
The worldly answer, fortune transmutable,
Trust of lordshyp a feynt sekernes,
Euery seson varyeth, frendshyp ys unstable,
Now myrthe, now sorow, now hele, now sekenes,
Now ebbe of pouert, now flodys of ryches,
All stont in chaunge, now losse, now wynnyng,
Tempest in see & wyndes sturdynes
Makeþ men vnstable & ferefull of lyuyng.
Tytan somwhyle fresshly doþe appere,
Then commeþ a storme & doþ hys lyght deface,
The soile of somer with floures glad of chere
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- Malory's LibraryThe Sources of the 'Morte Darthur', pp. 169 - 172Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2008