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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Four Arthurian Romances by Chretien DeTroyes: that even honour they wash in shame. But whoever dips honour
into shame, does not wash it, but rather sullies it. But they,
who maltreat him so, are quite ignorant of love; and he, who
fears not his commands, boasts himself very superior to him. For
unquestionably he fares well who obeys the commands of love, and
whatever he does is pardonable, but he is the coward who does not
dare."
(Vv. 4415-4440.) Thus Lancelot makes his lament, and his men
stand grieving by his side, keeping hold of him and guarding him.
Then the news comes that the Queen is not dead. Thereupon
Lancelot at once takes comfort, and if his grief for her death
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