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1. betwixt (ME) a. to signify ; to indicate
2. holden (ME) b. that is to say; namely
3. betokens (ME) c. between
4. tomorn (ME) d. to think of; to expect; to hope
5. weened (OE) e. Jesus
6. Jesu (LL) f. tomorrow
Task 6. A Hero in You!
What does it take to be a great man?
“The Day of Destiny” 2
from Morte D’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte D’Arthur is the most complete single version of the tales of King Arthur and his court that has been
written in English.
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Lancelot. One night Mordred leads a band of knights to Guinevere’s chamber, where they find the Queen with Lancelot.
Although he is reluctant, Arthur feels obligated to obey the law of the land and burn his wife at the stake. However, at the last
minute Lancelot
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rescues her, killing two knights who
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are guarding her. Lancelot
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subsequently flees to a castle in France and Arthur
forgives Guinevere. Sir Gawain, the brother of the dead knights, demands vengeance on Lancelot. His hatred forces Arthur to lead
his men on an attack against Lancelot’s French fortress. In the ensuing battles Lancelot seriously wounds Gawain but refuses to kill
him.
“The Day of Destiny,” an excerpt from this work, describes the end of King Arthur’s reign and the dissolution of the order which
he, along with his Knights of the Round Table, has established. This end grows out of the corruption within the royal court itself.
Arthur’s illegitimate son Mordred knows of the secret love affair between Arthur’s wife, Queen Guinevere, and his best friend, Sir
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!”
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The Day of Destiny