Roger Lancelyn Green Quotes

″‘Well, this was a brave youth,’ said Pellinore, ‘and if he lives, will be a mighty knight.‘”

“Now you are in my power, to slay or spare as I will! And I will kill you forewith, unless you kneel and yield to me, confessing yourself to be a knight of little worth.”

“Death is welcome when it comes; but to yield- never!”

″‘My brother Kay must have a sword,’ he thought, as he rode slowly back. ‘It will be a shame and a matter for unkind jests if so young a knight comes to the jousts without a sword. But where can I find him one? I know! I saw one sticking in an anvil in the churchyard, I’ll fetch that: it’s doing no good there!‘”

″‘Now,’ said Sir Ector, kneeling before Arthur and bowing his head in reverence, ‘I understand that you and none other are the true-born King of this land.‘”

″‘I am the Lady of the Lake,’ she said, ‘and I am come to tell you that your sword Excalibur awaits you yonder.‘”

“Arthur! We will have Arthur! By God’s will he is our King! God save King Arthur!”

“I hereby pledge myself to the service of God and of my people, to the righting of wrongs, to the driving-out of evil, to the bringing of peace and plenty to my land...”

“And Arthur, more and more bewildered, put his hand to the hilt and drew forth the sword as if out of a well-greased scabbard.”