Your sister, Morgane, your Excalibur!

With tender greeting. For you well may need

Its aid in this adventure. So, God speed!"

Said and departed suddenly: nor knew

The King that this was not his weapon true:

A brittle forgery, in likeness of

That blade, of baser metal;—in unlove

And treason made by her, of all his kin

The nearest, Morgane; who, her end to win,

Stopped at no thing; thinking, with Arthur dead,