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15 - Tales of King Arthur and the Round Table by Andrew Lang · Tales of King Arthur and the Round Table

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  Speaker 1: Section fourteen of Tales of King Arthur and the Round Table.
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  Speaker 1: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
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  Speaker 1: visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by Zames Curran. Tales of
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  Speaker 1: King Arthur and the Round Table by Andrew Lang. The
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  Speaker 1: Quest for the Holy Grail An adventure of Sir Gawaine.
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  Speaker 1: When Sir Gwaine departed, he rode along without any adventure,
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  Speaker 1: from Whitsunday till Michaelmas. He rode and found not the
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  Speaker 1: tenth part of the adventures he was wont to do.
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  Speaker 1: But it befell on a day that he met Sir
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  Speaker 1: Ector de Mars, at which they rejoiced exceedingly, complaining to
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  Speaker 1: one another of the lack of adventure in the quest
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  Speaker 1: on which they were set. Truly, said Sir Gawaine to
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  Speaker 1: Sir Ectar, I am nine weary of this quest, and
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  Speaker 1: I am loath to follow it to further strange countries.
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  Speaker 1: One thing seems strange to me, said Sir Ectar. I
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  Speaker 1: have met with twenty knights, and they all complain as
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  Speaker 1: I do. I wonder, said Sir Gawaine, where your brother
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  Speaker 1: is I can hear nothing of him, answered Sir Ectar,
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  Speaker 1: nor of Sir Galahad, Sir Percival, or Sir Bores. But
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  Speaker 1: they farewell, no doubt, for they have no peers. As
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  Speaker 1: they sat talking, there appeared before them a hand showing
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  Speaker 1: unto the elbow, covered with a red samite, and holding
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  Speaker 1: a great candle that burned right clear. And the hand
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  Speaker 1: passed into the chapel and vanished. They knew not where.
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  Speaker 1: Then they heard a voice which said, knights full of
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  Speaker 1: evil faith and poor belief, These two things have failed you,
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  Speaker 1: and therefore you may not come to the adventure of
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  Speaker 1: the whole grail and thereat. They went to the Holy Man,
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  Speaker 1: to whom they confessed their sins. Said he, this is
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  Speaker 1: the meaning of the vision. You have failed in three things, charity, fasting,
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  Speaker 1: and truth, and have been great murderers, Sir said Gawayne.
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  Speaker 1: By words, it seems that our sins will not let
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  Speaker 1: us labor in that quest, truly, answered the hermit. There'll
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  Speaker 1: be a hundred such as you, to whom it will
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  Speaker 1: bring naught but shame. So Sir Gawayne departed and followed
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  Speaker 1: Sir Ector, who had written on before end of section
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