Arthur. What thinkest thou of this Mordred, this my son?

Likest thou him not?

Launcelot. He is so strange, so small, so queer of limb,

At first I marvelled, then I pitied, then——

Arthur. Yea, and what?

Launcelot. I met his eyes, and straightway I forgot

The manner of man he was, save that a soul

Of wondrous scorn and mystery met mine;

That froze the present, made the future dread,

With strange forbodings. While I mused he passed,