...company, the flower of men, To serve as model for the mighty world, And be the fair beginning of a time. I made them lay their hands in mine and swear To reverence...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,...

...to obey ! vain the strait vows and solemn oaths by which the founder of the Table bound his knights To reverence the King as if he were Their conscience,...King, To break the heathen and uphold the Christ. All in vain ! for sin comes creeping in ; and sin, the slightest, the most seeming-venial, the most...

...have done the same. ' To hold a Round Table' came to mean little more than holding a tournament. " I made them lay their hands in mine and swear To reverence...Their conscience and their conscience as their king." man by man, one after another. 4. Lyonnesse, a fabulous country contiguous to Cornwall, said to be...

...view in founding this order are well described in the Idyll of Guinevere in the lines beginning — " I made them lay their hands in mine and swear To reverence...Their conscience and their conscience as their king." man by man, one after another. 4. Lyonnesse, a fabulous country contiguous to Cornwall, said to be...

...company, the flower of men, To serve as model for the mighty world, And be the fair beginning of a time. I made them lay their hands in mine and swear To reverence...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,...

...strait vows and solemn oaths by which the founder of the Table bound his knights To reverence the King1 as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience...King, To break the heathen and uphold the Christ. All in vain ! for sin comes creeping in ; and sin, the slightest, the most seeming-venial, the most...

...Guinevere Arthur himself recounts how on founding the Order of the Round Table he made his knights swear " To reverence the king, as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their king," and later in the same Idyll the repentant queen, recognizing at last the height of Arthur's purity,...

...company, the flower of men, To serve as model for the mighty world. And be the fair beginning of a time. I made them lay their hands in mine and swear To reverence...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,...

...company, the flower of men, To serve as model for the mighty world, And be the fair beginning of a time. I made them lay their hands in mine and swear To reverence...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,...

...company, the flower of men. To serve as model for the mighty world, And be the fair beginning of a time. I made them lay their hands in mine and swear To reverence...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,...