Thomas Malory
Sir Thomas Malory was a knight in the fifteenth century, who, while imprisoned, compiled the collection of tales we know as Le Morte D'Arthur, translating the legend of King Arthur from original French tales such as the Vulgate Cycle.
“The sweetness of love is short-lived, but the pain endures.”
Thomas Malory
“I shall bere your noble fame, for ye spake a grete worde and fulfilled it worshipfully.”
Thomas Malory
“Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place; and men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the holy cross.”
Thomas Malory
“We shall now seek that which we shall not find.”
Thomas Malory
“The very purpose of a knight is to fight on behalf of a lady.”
Thomas Malory
“Then he looked by him, and was ware of a damsel that came riding as fast as her horse might gallop upon a fair palfrey. And when she espied that Sir Lanceor was slain, then she made sorrow out of measure, and said, "O Balin ! two bodies hast thou slain and one heart, and two hearts in one body, and two souls thou hast lost.”
Thomas Malory