What best deserveth mention here is this:

That Mordred vanquish’d trusted to his flight,

That Arthur eachwhere victor is return’d.

And lo, where Mordred comes with heavy head:

He wields no slender weight that wields a crown.

[Exit.

THE SECOND SCENE.

Mordred, Conan.

Mordred. And hath he won? Be strands and shores possessed?

Is Mordred foil’d? the realm is yet unwon,