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Specimens of English literature from the 'Ploughmans crede' to the ...

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VIII. LE MORTE DARTHUR, 87dwellyd that tyme in a chapel besyde glastynburye, & <strong>the</strong>re 10was his ermytage, & so <strong>the</strong>y lyuyd in <strong>the</strong>yr prayers & fastynges& grete abstynence ;and whan quene Gueneuer vnders<strong>to</strong>odthat kyng Arthur was slayn, & al <strong>the</strong> noble kny3tes,syr Mordred & al <strong>the</strong> remenaunte, Than <strong>the</strong> quene staleaweye & v ladyes wyth hyr, and soo she wente <strong>to</strong> almes- 15burye ;& <strong>the</strong>re she let make hir self a Nonne, & ware whyteclo<strong>the</strong>s & blacke ; & grete penaunce she <strong>to</strong>ke as euer dydsynful lady in thys londe, & neuer creature coude make hyrmery, but lyued in fastyng, prayers, and almes dedes, thatmaner <strong>of</strong> peple meruaylled how vertuously she was chaunged. 20Now leue we quene Gueneuer in Almesburye, a nonne inwhyte clo<strong>the</strong>s & blacke, and <strong>the</strong>re she was abbesse and rularas reason wolde, and <strong>to</strong>rne we <strong>from</strong> hyr, and speke we <strong>of</strong>Syr Launcelot du lake.al

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