Glared venomous, with angry jewels rich.

He, louting to the knight, "Sir knight," said he,

"Your Lady, with all tenderest courtesy,

Assures you—ah, unworthy bearer I

Of her good message!—of her constancy."

Then, doffing the great baldric, with the sword,

To him he gave them, saying, "From my lord,

King Arthur: even his Excalibur,

The magic blade which Merlin gat of her,

The Ladyé of the Lake, who, as you wot,