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Lancelot

Lancelot
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Lancelot

from: Idylls of the King (Frontispiece) -  1911

This picture illustrates the lines from Tennyson's "Vivien" idyll, later the "Merlin and Vivien" idyll:

Sir Lancelot went ambassador, at first,
To fetch her, and she watched him from her walls.
A rumour runs, and she took him for the King...