“With tabor blithe and bugle sound,

Unto King Arthur’s Table Round,

Right valiant hearts I wot,

Drink, in thy spirit’s lusty glee,

And pledge with fullest jollity

These knights of Camelot.”—Richard Hengist Horne.

“King Arthur at Camelot kept his Court Royall

With his faire Queene, Dame Guiniver the gay:

And many bold barons sitting in hall,

With ladies attired in purple and pall: