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“The Day of Destiny” from Morte D’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
And quickly King Arthur moved himself with his army along the coastline westward, toward Salisbury. And there was a day assigned betwixt King Arthur and Sir Mordred that they should not meet upon a field beside Salisbury and not far from the coast. And this day so assigned as Monday after Trinity Sunday (the eighth Sunday after Easter), whereof King Arthur was passing glad that he might be avenged upon Sir Mordred.
So upon Trinity Sunday at night King Arthur dreamed a wonderful dream, and in his dream it seemed to him that he saw upon a platform a chair, and the chair was fast to a wheel, and thereupon sat King Arthur in the richest cloth of gold that might be made. And the King thought there was under him, far from him, and hideous deep black water, and therein was all manner of serpents, and worms, and wild beasts, foul and horrible. And suddenly the King thought that the wheel turned upside down, and he fell among the serpents, and every beast took him by a limb. And then the King cried as he lay in his bed, “Help, Help!”
And then knights, squires, and yeomen awaked the King, and then he was so amazed that he knew not where he was. And then so he awaked until it was night day, and then he fell on slumbering again, not sleeping nor thoroughly waking. So it seemed to the King that there came Sir Gawain unto him with a number of fair ladies with him. So when King Arthur saw him, he said, “Welcome, my sister’s son. I weened ye had been dead. And now I see thee on – live, much am I beholden unto Almighty Jesu. Ah, fair nephew and my sister’s son, what been these ladies that hither be come with you?”
“Sir,” said Sir Gawain, “all these be ladies for whom I have fought for when I was man living. And all these are those that I did battle for in righteous quarrels, and God had given them that grace, at their great prayer, because I did battle for them for
And quickly King Arthur moved himself with his army along the coastline westward, toward Salisbury. And there was a day assigned betwixt King Arthur and Sir Mordred that they should not meet upon a field beside Salisbury and not far from the coast. And this day so assigned as Monday after Trinity Sunday (the eighth Sunday after Easter), whereof King Arthur was passing glad that he might be avenged upon Sir Mordred.
So upon Trinity Sunday at night King Arthur dreamed a wonderful dream, and in his dream it seemed to him that he saw upon a platform a chair, and the chair was fast to a wheel, and thereupon sat King Arthur in the richest cloth of gold that might be made. And the King thought there was under him, far from him, and hideous deep black water, and therein was all manner of serpents, and worms, and wild beasts, foul and horrible. And suddenly the King thought that the wheel turned upside down, and he fell among the serpents, and every beast took him by a limb. And then the King cried as he lay in his bed, “Help, Help!”
And then knights, squires, and yeomen awaked the King, and then he was so amazed that he knew not where he was. And then so he awaked until it was night day, and then he fell on slumbering again, not sleeping nor thoroughly waking. So it seemed to the King that there came Sir Gawain unto him with a number of fair ladies with him. So when King Arthur saw him, he said, “Welcome, my sister’s son. I weened ye had been dead. And now I see thee on – live, much am I beholden unto Almighty Jesu. Ah, fair nephew and my sister’s son, what been these ladies that hither be come with you?”
“Sir,” said Sir Gawain, “all these be ladies for whom I have fought for when I was man living. And all these are those that I did battle for in righteous quarrels, and God had given them that grace, at their great prayer, because I did battle for them for