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King Arthur Reading the Letter of Elaine

King Arthur Reading the Letter of Elaine
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King Arthur Reading the Letter of Elaine

from: Elaine -  1867

This picture illustrates the lines from Tennyson's "Elaine" idyll, later renamed "Lancelot and Elaine":

But Arthur spied the letter in her hand,
Stoopt, took, brake seal, and read it; this was all . . . .