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WT Sharpe · 12-04-2010, 08:13 AM

.....[E]ver will a coward show no mercy, and always a good man will do ever to another man as he would be done to himself.
..........— Sir Thomas Mallory (c. 1408-1471), author. Le Morte d’Authur (1485). Quoted in William Henry Schofield, Chivalry in English Literature: Chaucer, Malory, Spenser, and Shakespeare (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1912), page 96.

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Detail from The Last Sleep of Arthur by Edward Burne-Jones, who often found inspiration in Le Morte d'Arthur.
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12-04-2010, 08:13 AM	#953
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,072 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	.....[E]ver will a coward show no mercy, and always a good man will do ever to another man as he would be done to himself. ..........— Sir Thomas Mallory (c. 1408-1471), author. *Le Morte d’Authur* (1485). Quoted in William Henry Schofield, *Chivalry in English Literature: Chaucer, Malory, Spenser, and Shakespeare* (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1912), page 96. Detail from The Last Sleep of Arthur by Edward Burne-Jones, who often found inspiration in Le Morte d'Arthur. (Public domain image downloaded from Wikipedia — click to enlarge.) Last edited by WT Sharpe; 12-04-2010 at 08:15 AM.