The Story of King Arthur
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1915 Original Publisher: The Penn publishing co. Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for fr...
MoreGeneral Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1915 Original Publisher: The Penn publishing co. Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II HOW ARTHUR OVERCAME HIS ENEMIES A S soon as Arthur became king he began to JTJL right the wrongs which had been done in the land since his father's death. Many lords had been bereft of their lands, and these he caused to be restored to their rightful owners. At the north he found many who opposed his reign; but within a few years he had won the land of Scotland and all that were within its borders. A part of Wales held out against him for awhile, but he overcame them all through the prowess of himself and his valiant knights and barons. Then he went into Wales and ordered that a feast should be held at Pentecost in the city of Caerlon whereat the vassal kings who had not yet given in their allegiance might do so. At the time agreed upon, King Lot, King Urience, King Nantes, and several others of those who had aspired to the crown, came marching toward Caerlon. each bringing a strong following of men and arms; and they camped outside of the city. Arthur was glad when he heard of their coming, and he sent out heralds to them with costly presents. But they would not receive his gifts, saying they had no joy to receive gifts from a beardless boy of low parentage, but that they were come to bestow gifts upon him in the shape of hard blows betwixt the neck and shoulders. At this Arthur gathered his barons and knights about him, and caused the gates of the city to be shut. The kings laid siege to the city, but though they had many more fighting men than Arthur they could not prevail against him. Soon after the war had begun, Merlin came to the camp of...
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