[127] Faerie Queene, II. viii. 21.

[128] Faerie Queene, I. vii. 35.

[129] See note G on p. [139].

[130] Dedication to his tragedy, “Locrine.”

[131] Lord Morley, Studies in Literature (“On ‘The Ring and the Book’”).

[132] Lord Tennyson, A Memoir, by his Son, Vol. II. v. 127.

[133] Andrew Lang, Tennyson (Blackwood’s “Modern English Writers”), p. 103.

[134] How closely it does follow the Welsh tale has well been pointed out by Mr A. Lang in the work just quoted, from pp. 119 sqq.

[135] M. W. Maccallum, Tennyson’s Idylls and Arthurian Story.

[136] Stopford Brooke, Tennyson, Chap. 10.