Launcelot, we celebrate a joust to-morrow

In honour of this victory we have won;

And you must ride in it: for we were mourning

That it should lack the star of all my knights.

The Marshals wait me. But my Queen, no word?

Welcome him, Guenevere. Give me your hand.

(Takes Guenevere’s hand in his.)

Launcelot, it was you that long ago

Saved my Queen for me, when proud Orkney’s King

Had taken her, trapped and captive, to his tower.