That for the horror great and outrage fell
Thereof may well beseem Pendragon’s brood.
And first, while Arthur’s navies homeward float,
Triumphantly bedeck’d with Roman spoils,
Let Guenevera express what frantic moods
Distract a wife, when wronging wedlock’s rights,
Both fond and fell, she loves and loathes at once.
Let deep despair pursue till, loathing life,
Her hateful head in cowl and cloister lurk.
Let traitorous Mordred keep his sire from shore;