“For as well as I have loved thee, mine heart will not serve me to see thee, for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed.”

Book XXI, ch. 9
Le Morte d'Arthur (c. 1469) (first known edition 1485)

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English writer, author of ''Le Morte d'Arthur'' 1405–1471

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