Elaine

Glorious scars! I seem

To feel the rushing stroke, when you upheld it

There! Dreadful stroke! Good shield! What fight was that?

Launcelot

It was that battle on the Solway shore,

When all the sands were blood, and we were pressed

So heavily by the wild men of the isles

That in the press the King came near his death.

This shielded Arthur then.