...introduction as at 1 13, with a different (but metrically identical) qualifying phrase (see on 167 below). "Now see I by thine eyes that this is done. Speak out: what is it thou has heard, or seen?" 150 The first verse is especially easy to recite impressively, for the first six...

...rose an arm Clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful, And caught him by the hilt, and brandished him Three times, and drew him under in the mere. And lightly...Then spoke King Arthur, drawing thicker breath: 'Now sec I by thine eyes that this is done. Speak out: what is it thou hast heard, or seen?' And answer...