Le Morte Darthur / by Syr Thomas Malory ; the original edition of William Caxton now reprinted and edited with an introduction and glossary by H. Oskar Sommer ; with an essay on Malory's prose style by Andrew Lang
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Le Morte Darthur / by Syr Thomas Malory ; the original edition of William Caxton now reprinted and edited with an introduction and glossary by H. Oskar Sommer ; with an essay on Malory's prose style by Andrew Lang
Author
Malory, Thomas, Sir, 15th cent.
Editor
Caxton, William, ca. 1422-1491, Sommer, H. Oskar (Heinrich Oskar), b. 1861
Publication
London: David Nutt
1889
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¶ Capitulum iij
SOo came syr launcelot and fonde the hors bounden tyl
a tree / & a spere lenyng ageynst a tree / & a swerd
teyed to the sadel bowe / & thenne sir launcelot lepte in to
the sadel & gat that spere in his hand / & thenne he rode after the
bore / & thenne syre laūcelot was ware where the bore set his ars
to a tree by an hermytage / Thenne sir launcelot ranne atte
bore with his spere / & ther with the bore torned hym nemly / &
rafe out the longes & the hert of the hors so that launcelot felle
to the erthe / & or euer sire launcelot myȝt gete from the hors /
the bore rafe hym on the brawne of the thyȝ vp to the
houghbone / and thenne sir launcelot was wrothe / & vp he gat vpon
his feet / & drewe his swerd / & he smote of the bores hede at one
stroke / & there with all came out the heremyte / & sawe hym
haue suche a wound / thenne the heremyte came to sir launcelot and
bemoned hym / and wold haue had hym home vnto his
hermytage / but whan syr launcelot herd hym speke / he was so wroth
with his wound that he ranne vpon the heremyte to haue
slayne hym / & the heremyte ranne awey / & whan sir laūcelot
myght not ouer gete hym / he threwe his swerd after hym / for syr
launcelot myght tho no ferther for bledyng / thēne the
heremyte torned ageyn / & asked sir launcelot how he was hurte /
Felawe said sir launcelot this bore hath bete me sore / Thenne
come with me said the heremyte and I shalle hele yow / Goo thy
wey said sir launcelot and dele not with me / Thenne the
heremyte ranne his way / and there he mette with a good knyghte
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with many men / Sir said the heremyte / here is fast by my
place the goodlyest man that euer I sawe / and he is sore
wounded with a bore / & yet he hath slayne the bore / But wel I wote
sayd the heremyte and he be not holpen that goodly man shall
dye of that wounde / and that were grete pyte / Thenne that
knyghte atte desyre of the heremyte gat a carte / and in that
carte that knyghte putte the bore and sir launcelot / for sir
laūcelot was soo feble that they myghte ryght easyly deale wyth
hym / and soo syr launcelot was broughte vnto the hermytage
and there the heremyte heled hym of his wound / But the
heremyte myghte not fynde syr launcelots sustenaunce / and so he
enpayred and waxed feble bothe of his body and of his wyt
for the defaute of his sustenaunce / he waxed more wooder than
he was afore hand / And thenne vpon a day syr launcelot ran
his waye in to the forest / and by aduenture he came to the
cyte of Corbyn where dame Elayne was that bare Galahalt syr
Launcelots sone / and soo whan he was entryd in to the toun
he ranne thurgh the Towne to the Castel / and thenne alle the
yonge men of that Cyte ranne after sir Launcelot / and there
they threwe turues at hym / and gaf hym many sadde strokes/
And euer as syre launcelot myghte ouer retche ony of them/
he threwe them soo that they wold neuer come in his handes no
more / for of some he brake the legges & the armes / & so fledde
in to the Castel / and thenne came oute knyghtes and squyers
and rescowed syr launcelot / And whan they beheld hym / &
loked vpon his person / they thought they sawe neuer so
goodly a man / And whan they sawe so many woundes vpon hym
alle they demed that he had ben a man of worship / And
thenne they ordeyned hym clothes to his body / and strawe
vndernethe hym / and a lytel hous / And thēne euery day they wold
throwe hym mete / and sette hym drynke / but there was but
fewe wold brynge hym mete to his handes
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