With sweat and heat of hurry, and, "From her,

Your sister Morgane, your Excalibur,

With tender greeting: For ye well have need

In this adventure of him. So, God speed!"

And so departed suddenly: nor knew

The king but this his weapon tried and true.

But brittle this and fashioned like thereof,

And false of baser metal, in unlove

And treason to his life, of her of kin

Half sister, Morgane—an unnatural sin.