Then quickly from the foughten field he sent
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His new-made knights, to King Leodogran, 1 Saying, ‘If I in aught have served thee well, ) Give me thy daughter Guinevere to wife.’ Whom when he heard, Leodogran in heartDebating—‘ How should I that am a king,However much he holp me at my need,) Give my one daughter saving to a king,| And a king’s son?’—lifted his voice, and call’d\ A hoary man, his chamberlain, to whomHe trusted all things, and of him requiredHis counsel: ‘Knowest thou aught of Arthur’s birth?’ Then spake the hoary chamberlain and said,‘Sir King, there be but two old men that know:} And each is twice as old as I; and oneIs Merlin, the wise man that ever served) King Uther thro’ his magic art; and one) Is Merlin’s master (so they call him) Bleys, \ Who taught him magic; but the scholar ran| Before the master, and so far, that Bleys 125 130 135 140 145 150
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