katiemcgrath:Queen Guinevere’s journey to Almesbury; - Idylls of the King: Guinevere,Lord Alfred Ten
katiemcgrath:Queen Guinevere’s journey to Almesbury; - Idylls of the King: Guinevere, Lord Alfred Tennyson i. So Lancelot got her horse,set her thereon, and mounted on his own,and then they rode to the divided way,there kissed, and parted weeping: for he past,love-loyal to the least wish of the Queen,back to his land; but she to Almesbury ii. And when she came to Almesbury she spakethere to the nuns, and said, “Mine enemiespursue me, but, O peaceful Sisterhood,receive, and yield me sanctuary, nor askher name to whom ye yield it, till her timeto tell you:” and her beauty, grace and power,wrought as a charm upon them, and they sparedto ask it. So the stately Queen abodefor many a week, unknown, among the nuns;nor with them mixed, nor told her name, nor sought,wrapt in her grief, for housel or for shrift,nut communed only with the little maid,who pleased her with a babbling heedlessness. iii. “[..]As even here they talk at Almesburyabout the good King and his wicked Queen,and were I such a King with such a Queen,well might I wish to veil her wickedness,but were I such a King, it could not be.” Then to her own sad heart muttered the Queen,“Will the child kill me with her innocent talk?” -- source link
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