...duties to which the knight was vowed were such as included all the noblest virtues of the age : — To break the heathen and uphold the Christ, To ride...abroad redressing human wrongs, • ••••• To love one maiden only, cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds. What if the faith was...

...redressing human wrongs, To speak no slander, no, nor listen to it, To honour his own word as if his God's, To lead sweet lives in purest chastity, To love one maiden only, cleave to her, Until they won her; for indeed I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion...

...flower of men : " " I made them place their hands in mine and swear To reverence their king as if he were their conscience, And their conscience as their...slander, no, nor listen to it, To lead sweet lives of purest chastity, To love one maiden only, cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds...

...taught by this perhaps too perfect man. Arthur bound his knights : "To reverence the king, as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their...wrongs, To speak no slander, no, nor listen to it, To honor his own word as if his God's, To lead sweet lives in purest chastity, To love one maiden only,...

...flowers. ing worthily to inspire the Christian chivalry of Arthur, singing for the knights who swore To break the heathen and uphold the Christ, To ride...To speak no slander, no nor listen to it, To lead sweetest lives in purest chastity.* Comparing him with the other eminent English Catholic poets of...

...swear To reverence the King, as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their King, 465 To break the heathen and uphold the Christ, To ride...wrongs, To speak no slander, no, nor listen to it, To honor his own word as if his God's, To lead sweet lives in purest chastity, 470 To love one maiden...

...representative of God: I made them lay their hands in mine and swear To reverence the King, as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their...human wrongs, To speak no slander, no, nor listen to it,30 To lead sweet lives in purest chastity, To love one maiden only, cleave to her, And worship her...

...those knights in armour, with their lofty ideals, their tournaments and jousts, their hope and aim 'to love one maiden only, cleave to her and worship her by years of noble deeds'. It all belongs to the dreams of youth, to the thoughts of a schoolgirl lying in the grass in an orchard,...

...into his warriors. Tennyson's code is dutiful rather than inspiring: To reverence the King, as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their...the Christ, To ride abroad redressing human wrongs, 44 FGStephens' painting Morte D'Arthur is unfmished, but all the more striking for that reason: it...

..."Balin and Balan," and it is in these terms that he becomes a model for all his knights, urging them: To lead sweet lives in purest chastity, To love one...cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds. Such sexual restraint will, according to Arthur, win for the Round Table knights the moral authority...