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[music] [music] Go. Camelot. [music] Captain of the watch. Captain of the watch. A mighty two detailers bearing the colors of Chameleia.
Sword of Lancelot (1963) is an epic action film featuring knightly combat, romance, and the legendary tale of King Arthur and Guinevere.
Key Takeaways
- Lancelot is portrayed as a heroic and loyal knight, central to Arthur's success.
- The trial by combat is a pivotal event that determines the political future of Camelot.
- Merlin’s magical interventions influence the characters and plot significantly.
- Romance and chivalry are key themes, especially the relationship between Arthur and Guinevere.
- The film blends historical legend with fantasy and action to create an engaging narrative.
What the video covers
- The film opens in Camelot with the introduction of King Arthur and his knights, including Lancelot.
- Lancelot is initially mistaken to be stricken with a plague but is actually using a new soap given by Merlin.
- A messenger from King Leodran of Chameleia arrives to discuss a marriage alliance with Guinevere.
- A trial by combat is proposed to settle disputes over the throne and marriage, featuring Lancelot as Arthur's champion.
- The combat is fierce and to the death, involving multiple weapons such as lance, sword, axe, and mace.
- Lancelot wins the trial, securing Arthur's claim and the betrothal to Guinevere.
- The film explores themes of loyalty, honor, and love through interactions between knights and royalty.
- Merlin's magic and mystical elements, including a love filter and soap, add fantasy aspects to the story.
- There are moments of humor and camaraderie among the knights, balancing the epic and romantic tones.
- The story hints at political intrigue and challenges to Arthur's reign, setting up future conflicts.
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This way. His Majesty the King. [music] [music] Where is Lancelot? Where is that Frenchman? Was he not called?
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Please, sir. I have just passed his chamber, and I fear he is stricken with some terrible plague.
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Come defend us. For the love of God, speak up, Gane. What do you mean, sir? I saw him standing stripped of the buff in a stone basin, scrubbing himself madly as though to wash it all away.
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Wash what away? Get to the point. The plague, sire. He was covered with a vile whitish foam, like the sweaty lather of a hard-ridden horse. I dared not speak to him, but hurried here to tell you all. Perhaps my lord Merlin
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knows the ailment and has some sovereign remedy. Oh, sir, Lancelot is my friend. Hold. Stand back, Lancelot. Come no nearer.
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Sire, I... I do not understand. What in the name of heaven? I saw you in the grips of some terrible malady.
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White foamy stuff was coming out of your skin. I thought you had the plague, but it's the plague.
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You're pard. But what I saw was only the foam from a new substance good wizard Merlin gave me to aid in bathing and shaving.
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A formula from the Orient brought to me by a friar from Saxony. It is called soap from the Latin Sappo. If it be a plague, I hope it spreads among all the unwashed in Britain. [laughter] What a dainty court we shall have. The
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ladies all like sweet little roses. The men all bright and shining like our dear Lancelot.
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Your majesty, I have a rhyme to Lancelot, the fragrant knight of Camelot. He meets his foes and smites them prone with nothing but his scent alone.
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[laughter] Well, in that [laughter] Hri set out another bowl and tanker. As by now you all know, a messenger knight has arrived from King Leodran of Chameleia. I see by your faces you already know what is in my heart. Yes, I
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asked Leodran for the hand of his daughter, Guinevere, in a marriage that would unite our kingdoms in love and brotherhood. Those of you who have seen her can understand my passion and dreams. And so I wish to receive his
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knight at our round table to break bread with us and to show him the full measure of our hospitality.
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Your majesty, here is a messenger knight from Chameleia, sir. What's the name? Sattors. Sir, name is Tors.
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Sir, name is Torres. You may approach Sattors to kiss our hand and join us at our board as the honored messenger of a noble king.
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My kingly master ordered me not to kneel until the matter is settled. He disputes your claim to royalty. Doubts that you're King Uther's son of Britain's rightful lord.
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What? What? My prime sire is a mere boy in man's armor obeying his lead lord.
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Lancelot is right. Let him be and give him food and drink. My master did not forbid me to eat and drink. I thank you, my lord. Here's the scroll.
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We will read your discourteous master's words and bear you no ill will. Read it aloud so that all may hear.
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Yes, sir. Arturo as nominato re in English. Lancelot for the benefit of those who have no.
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Yes, sir. He says that, uh, he says that after receiving his message, uh, you will undoubtedly consider the matter of going to war with him but, uh, suggest that rather than kill off hundreds of good men on both sides,
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he proposes to settle both questions: your right to England's throne and your request for his daughter in marriage by the honored method of trial by combat.
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Let's hear him out. I, uh, let your chosen champion, uh, return with my messenger knight, he says, accompanied only by, uh, his squire and grooms. We will treat him fairly and match him in the least with our own Sir
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Dorjac. Dorjac, a man to reckon Messiah, a champion true enough, Yon Dorjac. He fought val against the Huns.
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We never met him, but all of us were anxious to try him out. Read on, Lancelot. Is this trial to be to the death or a mere unhorsing?
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To the death, s from his wording. Rio says, "Should our own knight survive, he will send him back to you, uh, with his scepter and his daughter as tokens of his fealty and devotion to our unified cause." Sire, if it pleases your
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majesty. Rise, Salot, my champion. [music] [music] [music] Together. Amen. [music] [music] [music] Your charger is ready, sire. I've made sure of every strap.
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My thanks at yours. It is the least I can do as your official second. Have you chosen which weapon to carry on your person?
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The axe. A drink before we helmet you? No thanks, but, uh, cool to tank it for me to the thirsty work in the sun.
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Would I be disloyal to my king to say I hope you live to drink it?
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God willing, we'll down it together. Take him to the mounting stand. Well, it begins.
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[music] [music] Yeah. [music] Pursuant to a challenge given and accepted, Sedorac, Knight of Camelad, and Sanselot, knight of Camelot, will say in a trial by combat to determine certain matters of controversy between his gracious majesty Leodigran, King of
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Camelad, and one Arthur, calling himself self king of all Britain. The combat shall be to the death with four weapons of war: sharpened lance, great sword, battle axe, and mace.
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So Dorjac, well, you know what we have at stake in this ordeal. Our sovereignty as well as my beloved daughter. Spare no effort nor cunning ruse in this encounter.
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No man has ever unhorsed me, your majesty, nor shall this Salancelot. We pray it shall be so.
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[music] Luck to you, sir. Perhaps I shouldn't have said that. I am loyal to my king. [music] I have no doubt of that. Loyalty is proven more by action than by words.
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[music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [screaming] Heat. Now check. Ow! [music] [music] No. Heat. [music] Heat.
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Heat. [music] Heat. [music] The issue of the trial by combat is resolved. Long live Arthur, King of all Britain, and his betrothed, the Princess Guinevere, future queen of all Britain.
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Then in rapid succession we fought and defeated Fremont of Wales, Claudius and Clarence of Northumberland.
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Then L of Randorus of Latenor Morgan Lulfus. I'm sorry if the subject bores you, my lady.
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Oh, not bored tonight. Just weary of the saddle. Ah, although I'm used to riding.
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Ah, you ride like a boy. My father raised me like one having no son.
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I've always ridden to the hunt and for pleasure. But this long, slow journey is another matter.
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There's a clear pool, not very deep, where we will make our camp. Do you swim like a boy as well?
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But in the water, I may look less like one. Vivian, fetch me a dry cloth. I shall be cold when I come out. I have one here, my lady.
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Oh, that won't be enough. Another such. And my cloak. Heaven for service. What magic is that?
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So, the Melon's magic, my lady. He calls it soap. Very cleansing and soothing to the skin.
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Slick as an eel. Use it freely to wash all your sins away. It is a joy indeed.
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It makes one feel as if it is not some magic, some kind of charm or witchcraft.
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We've heard such tales of this, Merlin. It is a love filter, my lady. It will awaken the passion of your loved one.
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Uh, when mixed with a strong dose of kisses and embraces, and briskly so together, you're making mock of me. [laughter] Please, I yield thee. Hey mercy, I will give you no quarter.
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Sanctuary. Sanctuary. Sanctuary. I see no cloister and certainly no nuns. Would you dare lay hands on your queen?
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[laughter] Here, my lady. I hope you've managed to keep warm. You have arrived in time for the rescue, Lady Vivian. I was about to give your lady a second baptism.
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I will, uh, leave this with you. This love filter. Good, but not good enough. Remains to be seen. A gold piece. Gold paper.
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Lord and ladies, it is good news. Salot has vanquished the Dorjac and is but a day's journey behind with the princess Guinevere. I must away to the king with the news.
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The king? Let others rejoice, Griselda, not I. For my long cherished hope of being my father's heir will perish if this young bride bears him a child, and I shall be merely an illegitimate son.
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And my claim to the throne will vanish like a dream unless I strike like an arrow, swift and deadly, and do the mark.
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[music] Who is it that's payin
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You talk too much and ask too many questions. Earn your gold. Hold your tongue.
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[music] I saw the gleam of metal in the woods. Make no sign and stay behind me.
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The doors bring up our shields swiftly now. I wish for him. Do not stop to think to fight.
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[screaming] I owe my life and I owe you mine. Fair exchange. Yours is equally dear to me.
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If you had been killed, I would not have wanted to live. My lady, my lady, let us say no more, lest we lose all that we honor in life.
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Do you value honor above all else? I must, my lady, and so must you.
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[cheering] [cheering] [cheering] What a poor child. Why? She might have been killed. And you too, my good Lancelot. This island of ours needs a scrubbing and a scouring to rid it of these vermin, these briggins. Now that I'm king of all Britain, I shall bring
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order and law to our land. What the poor child? Why, she must have been in mortal terror? A mere child to be in the midst of such carnage?
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In in terror, yes, s. But helpless? No. She cut one villain down herself. As good and true a stroke as I have ever seen.
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Did she? Did she? Nevertheless, her has spirit then to be a queen and the mother of kings.
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But how long can it take a woman to change her gown? Doubtless she wishes to be at her best when you first see yourself. Bathed and refreshed and fragrant.
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You're right. I must not be so impatient. Laugh if you will. But I'm all a quiver. My palms are wet. My heart pounds.
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It might help s to remember [snorts] that you are the bridegroom, not the bride. [laughter] You're right, Lancelot. I must not be so maidenly. [laughter] Tell me my good friend Lancelot. Did she speak of me on the journey hither and of
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the marriage? Is she content to be my bride? S there's nothing she wishes more than to be your queen.
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She said that? No soft words. Lancelot the truth. Now s the truth in almost those very words.
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Good. Good. A good beginning then. She's beautiful. Is she not Lancelot? Exceedingly as I recall.
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Your memory serves you well. S. I want to make her happy. I want to make her happy.
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And you will make her happy, sire. What maid would not leap to be in her place?
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She will know as I do as do all your familiars. No kinglier man, no manlier king lives on this earth. How would she not be happy?
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I thank you my dear good and true friend and thanks again for this happiness which you have won for me. They sire any one of your knights.
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Ah, but would they have won? Ah, where is the wench? How much of a woman is there to bathe and gown and cover with scent? Why, an army could prepare for battle in half the time. Must I sit
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here? I think I hear a coming with Merlin, [music] [music] your Majesty, the Princess Guyine of Chameleia.
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[music] Welcome to Camelot, my dear [music] Guinea. It's time to take your next position. Do you know what it is?
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Yes, I do. That's good. But I don't. Your majesty, all is in readiness. So am I. I have been for a week.
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Every bridegroom here is weak. Now, your majesty, if you proceed to the altar, Your all highest, will you please take Sir Lancelot's armor and proceed to the altar at the next trumpet called?
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[singing] The moment is here. Yes, my lady. You should be the proudest and happiest maid in old Britain.
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My thoughts are not all pride. And as for happiness, [music] I'll be there. [singing] Lord, save me.
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From what, my lady? From myself. From this? This is what you wanted to be queen of allen.
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What my head wanted, not my heart. The king loves you. Say the word and I'll stop all this by swooning in your arms.
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There is no word. Say that you wish it were you waiting there for me before it's too late.
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It is too late now, your majesty. Be Benedict advocus sanctity. Amen. to come and have a tank of meat with me.
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My head is going round. I've had two already. Two already? What a drinking man you are. Before the evening is out, you must have at least two more. Everyone loves everyone tonight. And everyone is very happy.
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I'll answer a lot. You know our new friends and late adversaries, Ulfus and Randoris.
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Yes. Wolfus here still wears the scars you gave him at Landigor. I remember the wounds heal very nicely.
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Too bad. Better for you next time. It's in French door. Patience, friend knows the sea. He's the king's right arm. Arthur trusts him with his life and with his wife. [laughter] Kill them. Kill them. Kill them ugly flies.
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Swiftly Edric some meat before she's all gone. Unless Sir Lamarak has finished it already.
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[laughter] Odds fish Lancelot. I've just painted goblets with a dozen knights whose throats I saw to cut a year ago. I'm civil that still needs slitting. Hook a foul. A fowl. I said a beautiful and touching celebration.
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I'm moved to rhyme of it. Good King Arthur late in life took himself a youthful wife. A baby boy is the rule they say. When November weds with May, a royal prince to claim the rule, while other hopefuls play the fool. [laughter]
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Only a fool would take you for one, my lord. Have I your devotion? Yes. Oh, yes. As no man ever before.
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You and I can go far if we guide our destinies. Yes. Guide them with a strong hand.
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I do not believe that my fate has been altered by by my father's autumn passion. I will bend fate. Break it if need be. But I will not allow that which is mine, which has been the constant goal of my life to be snatched from my
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grasp. [laughter] [laughter] [laughter] [laughter] [cheering] [laughter] I'm here. [laughter] [applause] I think she's merely swoons sire nothing more.
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Quick, Lancelot, take her to her chambers. Merlin, come with me. Let nobody be disturbed. Her majesty has merely swooned as what made might not on such a day. The merryman continue and let me forget now that I am a king. And
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remember only that I am a bridegroom. What happened to me? You fainted. Oh, what can we do now?
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Now and forever. Nothing. Oh, Lancelot, what might have been? What might have been? Now you're celebrating, Lanclot, as if this were your wedding.
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Hey, brother. You're celebrating because it isn't. [laughter] Thirsty work carrying lovely young brides upstairs to bed chambers.
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I'll let him come. I'll play tankered against his dagger anytime. You hope all Britain see bad blooded Aras table. Put up that bodkin before I tear you apart like a rose foul.
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Look to yourself, Lancelot, if we meet at the Midsummer Tourney. Come, my friends. No faces. This is a night for celebration.
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To the king, to the queen, to the bridal knight. King, the queen, the bridal knight.
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[laughter] But my dear husband, why can't I? I've ridden to the house since a little girl.
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In Chamelead, many ladies of the court join the hunt. It is not our custom, my sweet. The chase is wild and rough. I wouldn't think of letting you endanger one golden hair. I've come to love it so well.
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But I take no pleasure sitting here all day gossiping with my ladies. I will see you amused.
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Take the hounds below. What have you in mind, my Arthur? If the chatter of your ladies bes, we will get enough to tell you tall tales of adventuring.
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Lancelot sire I have need of you here at once s I don't know what the world is coming to when per young wives venture argument with their husbands but in you I like it provided you always give in
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you do love me a little oh yes my leash you're kind gentle and all that a woman may honor and respect.
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Yes, I love you with all I know of love. Oh, I could not ask.
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You will have a care for yourself during the chase. So careful, I shall probably never see the stag. From now on, in forest hunter field of battle, I shall be known as Arthur, king of cowards. Oh, I have so
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much to come back to. Oh, a likely story, but pleasant to the ear. Ah, Lancelob, you are captain of the watch today. So, watch over my lady's entertainment [music] as well. Anything her heart desires, providing there's no danger. Oh, come now. No pouting. Kiss
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me goodbye. We'll go riding tomorrow. Hawking maybe. But no mad gallops [music] through thicket and forest. That's for men.
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Goodbye, my love. Have a good day. Goodbye, my lege. I want you to know, Sir Lancelot, that as your queen, I not only look upon you as a loyal subject, but also as a friend.
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You do me great honor. Besides, you saved my [music] life. Therefore, it pains me that you've been avoiding my [music] presence these past weeks.
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Oh, it is not that. Uh, it is only uh I have my many duties as you have yours.
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That is the sum of it. Oh, good. Well, now that my mind is at rest, I'll feel free to gentlemen for the hunt.
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500 away. As I was saying, I'll feel [music] free to seek you out if need be.
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[music] I could not abide my ladies any longer. Oh, gossip, gossip, gossip. I'll sit here and arrange my flowers.
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I hope you will forgive my present here in your garden, but uh his majesty always permitted me its use.
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You have my permission as well. Thank you, your majesty. Pay me no heat at all. Go on with your reading of that ponderous scroll.
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Pretend I'm as far away as your thoughts. What is it you read with such devotion?
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The Osorus, your Majesty, an early Roman with a a comforting philosophy indeed. What does he teach?
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To be content with what one has and uh not to strive for the unattainable.
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Very comforting. Why must just one more question and I'll not bother you further. But why must all writings be in Latin or Greek? Why can't they be in our own British language?
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Well, it is a mongrel speech, my lady, made up of many tongues. Uh, there are no symbols by which it could be written.
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Oh, it is a pity. I should like to be able to write simple messages to my dear Arthur, such as I love you.
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How would you write that in Latin? It is uh very simple. I um I show you here on the sand.
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I love is uh one little word. A mo and uh [music] the or you is te there it is. I love you.
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or Lancelot, you've said the words at last. [music] [music] [music] [music] I love you.
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I love you. I love you. Heat. [music] [music] Heat. Captain of the Captain, what has happened to you?
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I cannot say it in one word. Let me let me sit here. Ryan, get some wine quickly.
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No ceremony, sir. Cedric, tell me swiftly. What ill tidings do you bring? Sir, it is again silence all of you. Let him speak.
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And Brenda Gorus with a mighty horde fell upon two of our villages by the sea and destroyed them, leaving no living soul.
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We and our fortress fought valiantly, but in vain. Only three of us escaped the final battle at night.
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Now I take my sacred hope. They shall pay with their lives for this. I and many of their heathen followers. Where now is this barbarian horde?
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Three days journey away, sir. Maybe four. For they laying waste blood, stopping to burn, rape, pillage.
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What is their number? Knights and men at arms. Knights 200 or more. Bowman a thousand.
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The rest, axes, swords, fearsome weapons of all kinds, maybe twice that number, maybe thrice. We could not tell.
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How can we match such a force in so short a space of time before we can send messengers, gather arms? The barbarians will be at our gates.
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Drink your wine, Cedric. Catch your breath, sire, if it please you. Speak your mind, Lancelot. All of you, speak your minds.
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As you say, sire. We cannot raise an army of sufficient might in time and Ulfus and Brandor as well know it. I counsel therefore that your majesty let me depart with what force can be spared to delay the enemy at once whilst you s
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bring to your standard here the full strength of your allies. How say you Lancelot, your council leads me here whilst you do battle. I am no king to sit on a throne and let my knights do my fighting. Sire, your
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prowess in battle has been sung too often to need defending, as well as your courage. But it is only you, our sovereign lord on this aisle, who can command the allegiance and instant obedience of our several allies.
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I cannot deny, however unwillingly, the worth of your argument. And of your counsel, Lancelot, choose those you will have at your side in this perilous undertaking. Leave with me half our ready force so that if need arise we here will not be defenseless.
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Eric Ryan take sedric to my chambers. Done good. We will have further parley Lancelot before you. Thank you.
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I could not let you leave without one kiss. Do you love me? Yes, my golden hair.
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God help me. I love you. Swear you'll return to me. Otherwise, I will die.
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I will return and only to you. Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. You were up early to I wasn't sleepy. I thought I might as well sit here as lie on the ground.
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I This unbroken sod does not make a feather bed, does it? I had but little sleep myself. I uh I am always restless before a battle.
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I It is my way too. I I know not why. It is not that I'm afraid.
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Afraid? You h I would not be here today were it not for your prowess in that ambush. I hope you will stay at my side today.
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I thank you, Sanselot. I would not tell this to anyone else, but that ambush was my first battle.
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Truly, the first time I ever killed a man. I have never been in a battle such as we will face.
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It will be no different, merely longer. The odds will give us more work to do.
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Is this your only armor? Where is what you wore to Camelot? That was borrowed. This is all I have.
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I have a spare suit of armor and my light blue tabard with the pack horses.
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Go kick the lad. Put it on. Oh no, Salancot. I could not. Must I command you, Sir Torres?
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You will acquit yourself well, I have no doubt, and the glory will be mine. I thank you, Salansel. I hope I will be worthy.
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[music] [music] [music] [cheering] An easy victory. Yes. And we want no prisoners. Put them to the sword. All of them.
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No, not the women. We want the women. I say no. We cannot carry again losing another day's time. Arthur must be given no chance to prepare against us.
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My men will not march till they have had their reward. You are men. It is you.
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And if it [screaming] is, who will deny me? Take the women if you must, but keep your men from the wine.
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The women. Gather them by the tent. [cheering] The women to the center. By the tent. No men prisoners.
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[cheering] No [screaming] man prisoners. [screaming] They have water on three sides. We shall put fire on the fourth.
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Come on. Come on. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [music] [music] Let fire. [ __ ] [music] Come on.
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[music] Turn it off. [music] Heat. [music] [music] Heat. Huh? Heat. [music] [music] Heat. Heat.
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[music] Hey. [music] [music] Hey. Hi. All around us. We must fight them in the forest. We have no cover here. Into the forest. Fight them in the woods.
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Fire [screaming] to the head. Let's fire. It's time. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. into the next patch.
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[cheering] Heat. [screaming] [music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Ah, you've had your baptism. We've killed enough today to last us a lifetime. It's a pity, however. Coopers and Brand Goras escaped us.
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They're vanquished. The whole army destroyed. Lancelot, you've done it. We've done it, lad. All of us together.
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Come along. [music] A beautiful sight. A proud and memorable day that will long live in song and story.
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I wish I could have been there. I wish I could have seen it. Bloodthirsty child. Ah, I should have been there. But Lancelot's picra left no room for further battle.
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I don't see him. Where is Lancelot? Is that not his light blue tabt on the litter those men carry?
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It seems so, but it's hard to tell at this distance. A body on the litter.
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This is Tbot. I pray it not be Lancelot. No dear God, don't let him be dead.
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No, there is Lancelot. Oh, it is. It is Lancelot. He's not dead. I'm ashamed of my foolish outcry, my lord.
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But your champion, your friend, and mine, I couldn't bear a thought. How could I, my sweet, nor could I.
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[music] Heat. [music] [music] Heat. [music] Look Lancelot I'm a blunt man. Have no words or wits to fence with.
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You have words enough today. Get to the point. I came here to escape words and sly looks or to meet with softer [snorts] words and gentler looks. Is that to the point?
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I I have points and blades enough waiting for me now without adding yours to the list.
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Mine wait only for your enemies, no matter who or what they may be. I shouldn't have doubted you even for that moment.
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I have lost track lately of friendship and a few other little things like duty, loyalty honor.
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I know not what to do. Did you ever expect to see me so and meshed in a web of white and gold silk?
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How many lances have I shattered for a woman's favor I cannot count and ridden away afterward? Old in heart and body and now I am lost and lost right away again lad while there's still time let's take horse tonight for your
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castle joyous guard from there we can ship to Britany word has come that the Huns have invaded France there should be much adventure nonable profit there odds fish I feel a boy again at the thought but I'm your man I'm captain of the
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watch tonight Nothing will be stirred up if we ride out at dawn after my watch for a day or two of joyous guard.
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Let not detail you, Frenchman. Stand your watch tonight. Nowhere else. Remember, who knows but Mrid may hope to make this knight his night of all nights if I make my thoughts clear.
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I as clear as a blow of your mace. Dennis agreed. [laughter] That's I can feel my arms around that fat girl now. That is as far as I could reach. What was her name again? Iet. No.
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No. Twinet. No. No matter. It'll come back before that ship reaches Britney. [laughter] What ship is that, gentlemen?
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Ship, your majesty. Let it go, Lamarak. There's no use lying. I'll explain matters to her majesty.
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I'm surprised, sir Lancelot. No knight would lie to his queen. You may leave us, sir. Lamarak, my city, when do you sail for Britany, sir? Light of love.
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What have you heard? Whatever I must do. You know what is in my heart.
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In what heart? I should have known better than to trust a Frenchman. That's my golden hair. Strike right and left if odd displeases you. This is how I love you best.
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You lie. You never loved me. You took my love with a saddled horse standing by and a ship for Britany.
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If I stay and we continue, and I could not be near you without loving you. It would end in death for both of us.
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I never thought to see you afraid. There are some things all men fear, and one of them is being burned at the stake before a gaping crowd of shopkeepers.
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Does not the same fire wait for me if we are caught. Well, you speak like a child. You feel but do not think. It is better than a man who thinks but does not feel.
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to leave me without a word, as if I were some inkeeper's daughter, without even a thank you or farewell.
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You know, I never would have ridden away without one last moment with you. Oh, only a moment. I should have thought if it's to be our last night, that you'd be more generous with your love.
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Now, listen to me. Lamarak is not the only one who knows. It is the gossip of the court. And Mr. will see to it that it reaches Arthur's ears. And do not mistake your Arthur. He will uphold the
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law, whatever it cost him or you. Then take me with you to France or anywhere.
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Do you think they would give us peace? The Queen of Britain and a traitorous knight. There would be no haven for us anywhere.
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I see them. It is farewell and nothing will sway you. Will you come to me tonight? At least that I cannot bear it this way.
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To your own room, it is a deadly chance. Not even Modrid would dare put spies on my door. I'll wait for you after your watch is [music] over. Whatever the hour, oh, Lancelot would swear you come to me tonight.
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I would not place you in [music] such jeopardy. No, my sweet love. This must be our farewell.
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Very well. I'm done with crawling on my knees to you. Let it be farewell forever.
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But I'll wait for you tonight. Then my forin swooped and seized the quail from under the very wings of Modrid's beloved Brazel.
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Was laughable to see the fury in Modrid's face. And I made him pay the gold pieces that he wagered me.
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Arthur, my dear, come. It is late. Drink your wine and then to bed with you.
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Shall I add a few drops of Merlin sleeping dropped? I double the dose tonight. I would sleep like the dead with no dreams. Oh, what you need is a change of scene. Some new action. A nice little war perhaps. Can't
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you stir up a pretty little war of sorts? None that I would relish facing.
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Come now, drink your medicine like the man you really are. It's not so bitter as you make it out.
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Is it not? Then look at me and tell me if [music] you can that there's a medicine for the pain in my heart.
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I tell you this as I hope for God's mercy. You may sleep sound tonight, knowing that tomorrow's son will find gone all cause of your unhappiness.
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Is that enough? For that, I'll drain the cup and sleep until I wake with your arms around me.
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Is that proof? [music] [music] [music] Oh, I love you. Do you know how much I love you?
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I know. I know. Put up your swords, sit. The trap is sprung. He's [music] stuck down. Stop him. Gis, close the gate.
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Hold him. Cut him down. Cut him down. Mhm. [music] [music] might be [music] there.
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[bell] Well, speak up, men. Is it news of Lancelot? Your majesty. He and Lamech made good their escape to joyous guard. Of the knights and men we sent in pursuit, only half of returned. The others have gone over to Lancelot's side. So it begins
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again. Dagonet's little war over white flesh and golden hair. What a dagonet. Where is he?
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We have no word of him, sir. Not since he was seen weeping at the queen's side when she was being carried to Camelot prison.
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And in the town, many are baring their doors and darkening their windows. Others are gathering to watch the burning.
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You two go in. Tears for the faithless. Your pardon, S. My sorrow is for my brother, Gareth.
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In your own troubled state, I did not wish to impose my [music] grief on you.
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What happened? He was carrying no arms because it was Lancelot. He merely sought to hold him on the stairs as you had ordered.
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But Lancelot killed him. This is as unlike the Lancelot I knew as all the rest of this.
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Lancelot was hardpressed. He struck blindly right to left. He drove through us. I have doubts he even knew that he'd fell Gareth. In all fairness go away.
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Even so. Gareth's blood is on his head. S I had two loyalties. Now I have but one. The other is turned into a hate as keen as your own.
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I know. It seems that love and hate are so close a kin. Only the sharpest sword can separate one from the other.
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Sire, let me lay siege to joyous guard before Lancelot escapes to France. Peace. Lancelot can wait.
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The trumpets. So it begins. The law says fire. I made the law. Were I to break it for such a cause as this, I'd be king no longer.
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Am I not right, Merlin? Where lies my duty to this United Britain that we have built at such a cost? To hold it in peace as long as I may? daughter of my heart.
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You know how often I urged you not to take Guineaver in marriage. It was a love that could never be.
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Now whether forgiveness would have seemed weakness, how the life of one girl should weigh against the peace of the state, that I cannot answer.
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All I find in my tired brain and slowing heart is the hope for a better world than this. Where there will be no wars, big or little.
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At any rate, it's too late for a change of heart. Art. So it is fire.
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God in heaven. Her face and hands, her white body, her hair of gold so soft and alive.
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God, what have I done? What can I do? [music] What happened? [music] [music] Oh.
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[music] Oh. Oh. [music] Put up your swords. Put up your swords. We cannot stop them with arrows at our throat.
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[music] Heat. Heat. [music] [music] And you saw no sign of Modridge's reinforcement. on your way?
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None. But it is said in Camelot that Mark of Cornwall is sending catapults and battering rams. Much good battering rams would do. The place is impregnable by land.
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We'll take it at night from the water side when our boats are ready. Take months.
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[music] Lancelot, coward, craven knight, come forth. Lancelot, I see you again. I challenge you to personal combat with any weapons of your choice. Come forth, the coward.
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If you have any manhood left, [screaming] murderer, false knight, I see you dead with a sword in your throat. Come forth. You shall not escape. Guard.
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Was that Gane shouting his challenge again? Every day. Every day. I always had a fun for Gain, but these days I could gladly clout him with my mace. Arthur, well, he had some right in his sight. But Gane, he knows how well
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you loved him. And Gareth, he must know in his heart you never meant to slay him. and the dark and the heat of battle.
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Be quiet. Must your tongue keep pace with your appetite? Well, I'm sorry, lad. If I I do not need your apologies, nor you lame attempts to cheer me. Keep your counsel, I'll keep mine. And do not follow me everywhere I go. Let me be.
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Let me be. Coward as well as traitor and assassin. Lance, not coward. I say coward. Gary's black soul. Oh, Wayne, pardon, sir. I never knew Lancelot to refuse a challenge.
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I too have challenged Lancelot week after week to make this a personal matter rather than one for all this bloodletting. He refuses to fight either of us.
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Yet I cannot believe it cowardice. It is very simple, sir. It is true. Go.
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Lancot loves you both too well to raise sorax against you. It seems an odd distinction. His archers pour arrows on us and boiling oil from the walls is an odd show of love and loyalty. You and I must see the new
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entrenchments go in and the progress of the boats. Your leaves are come along there.
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Close the tent. Deonet. There's a cold wind. Thank you, Susan. What blood is that?
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The blood of a lad from Chamelead. Haven't you gone through hell enough without taking on this role of angel of mercy?
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A lad from home. Taken a bowman. He He was a page boy at my father's court.
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He told me he had loved me all his few years. I know the boy. How is he now?
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His little love story is over. He died with his head in my lap. He's not the first nor the last to will die. Go and change that gown. You look like a nun. I might as well be one as
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far as you're concerned. It's our little love story over two. Turn to stonian indifference.
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Difference. God in heaven. Green. You scarcely spent an hour alone with me. I live in a dungeon of silence and evasion. Meanwhile, lads like Dick and die for us while you brewed our nightly honor and refuse to take the one way to
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our freedom. And killing Dwayne and Arthur would mean our freedom. Freedom? Is there a land so distant that I can find freedom from the thoughts which were night and day in my heart and brain? I love you, Gwyn, but
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I long them already more than I can bear. Do not, I beg you. I beg you, do not ask me for further dishonor.
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What dishonor would lie in accepting their challenges, meeting them fairly, manto man. You'd be risking as much as they to go all he knows and ask the good man as he has never could hold his own against me. It would be plain
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assassination. I cannot. They'll have no mercy on you or me if they starve us out. If that is all we're waiting for, I will not race sword against Arthur.
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Mark my words, I will not race sword against Arthur if it means my life and if it means mine.
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If you loved me, you take the one way out and win a new chance for us. It's in your hands. You can give us life and happiness with one blow of sword or axe.
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Well, then enough. Perhaps you're right. And there is no other way. I will end this folly when tomorrow when Gain comes I'll meet him and then Arthur I'll send him a [music] challenge which he cannot refuse.
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You'll let nothing stop you. Not even the fires of ill. Now run and change.
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Love I have no fear for you. No man can stand against you. If you want your life, go in. Take back your insults and admit that you know in your heart I never meant to kill Gareth.
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Say it and go free. Kill me as you did my brother. Kill me, murderer, false knight, traitor.
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Take your life, Gain. Despite all, I would not kill you any more than Gareth whom I loved.
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Leave and take back to your king this message. This is the message, s Arthur, king of all Britain. Many men have been killed and more to come when only one is guilty. Give your word that there will be no reprisals, that all others in this
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keep will go unscathed to freedom. All others. And I will surrender myself to any fate that you would vent upon me.
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There sire. He has signed his own death warrant. He bargains for half sire when soon we shall have all. Isovir guiltless and the others that turn traitor to their king.
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Treason cannot go unpunishable perhaps if they would swear a new allegiance. Your pardon, sir. But can anyone here speak the name of Lancelot? No matter how bitterly, without calling to mind the many deeds of friendship and of valance all of you.
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Merlin, you who are wisest in council have said not. You are the king, sir. That is my counsel.
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I And with the crown and scepter also the welfare of the kingdom was placed in my hands.
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You all think and feel like men. I must act with the mind and the heart of a king.
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Good evening, dear Mullen. I'm so glad to see you. And I to see you again, your majesty.
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No, majesty. No queen at all. I hope just a woman in love. Now, tell me the plan of battle. Here, my champion. Let me sit adoringly at your feet. Please sit dear Merlin.
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When does it take place? If it please your m my lady, there is nothing in this matter about a combat.
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No combat? You mean this great king of yours? This No offense, dear Merlin, but this dealer roasted women in the marketplace. He refuses the challenge.
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My lady, there was no challenge to fight the king. No challenge. Lanclot's offer to the king was the surrender of his person for any torment or death. So long as you and all here with you were freed.
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No, Lancelot. You didn't. No, my love. He shan have you. Quietly. Quietly, my beloved. The king is merciful. He has altered my conditions.
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[music] There used to be an end of dying for a while for you and me and all concerned.
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Good Marlin, would you leave us? [music] Go on. I am banished to France and you are to be given [music] safe escort to the convent in Glastonbury.
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That's my love. Mull it over behind those big eyes and you'll see it's our one hope for a true chance of happiness.
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I see nothing but nuts and black and white and prayers, fastings, and bells. I heard enough bells that morning. Look, my golden ear, there's nothing in the king's offer that says you must take a nun's vows, and our parting may not be
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for long. The word Arthur knows is dying, and border will bring it crashing down around his ears. I will be out of it in Britany, and you will be safe in sanctuary. safe from mooded or anyone else until I come for you. A widow and not
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one of my making. Then we have only a few days. We must be [music] grateful for that.
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When do I go? In the morning. In the morning. It is part of the bargain. I am to stay here and take ship for Britany in 3 days.
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Lamarite goes with me. Arthur will receive you in all honor. Merlin will ride with you.
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I will not ride. I shall walk and take nothing of my happiness with me but what I wear.
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You will be your own brave self and show them our real queen faces defeat.
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I will. I will. But hold me close tonight. This whole short night for there's something picking at my heart and saying this is the end of love.
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[music] Get your breath. Thank you. This Brittany of yours is all right indoors, but when does it find out that summer's come again?
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Has it? Not while you keep winter in your heart. There are no ships in sight.
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There should be tidings from Britain in the pins along the harbor. Come along. It's too early for hot food, but you bring some cold meat and wine, and there is no news from Britain. She runs to my taste as inkeeper. Oh, there's times
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when I wish I knew a little more of this French tongue of yours. You know enough for what's on your mind.
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I go fetch wine. I think he needs a little help. Lo, here you go in. If this is what you want, I'd rather live to see you bury it in Mrid's heart.
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I know you never meant to kill my brother. What brings you here, my friend? You I've written from in looking for you for the last month. I saw your steed outside and Lamarax.
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I Lamarak is trying his French on our box of inkeeper. Tell me what news I've written.
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Arthur's dead by Modrid's hand. Then it's happened as I thought it would. And he's gone. My king, my friend.
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whom I betrayed but never cease to love. Merlin's passed on. Old Cay, the lady Vivian, she took poison when Modard had no more use for her.
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[laughter] Wayne, you're ill. Along was pierced in the battle with Mo and his allies. All Britain is at war again. You need it at home to put down Moldid. That's why I've come.
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Nay, I have finished with killing. I am for Glastonbury and my Guy. Not when I tell you what's happened to Glastonbury. No, not that bad. But bad enough. Moded and his men broke into the queen's sanctuary. The queen and some of
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the sisters escaped to Wales and Moded in his fury killed the rest and burnt the nunnery.
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I was wrong. I have not finished with killing. Are you not going to leave me behind?
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Die in this stinking Britany of yours. I knew the day when I would have made you run a couple of courses with Lances for insulting my native land. Have no fear. I'll have you at Morid's death if Lamarak has to carry you. My word.
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Heat. Heat. [music] [music] There will be land and gold and plunder for all who fight well today.
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When the battle is joined, do your utmost till the trumpet calls for retreat. Then all break and run the enemy after us into the trap. The trumpet will sound again. The bowman will do their work catching the flanks
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and rear of the enemy. Then we shall wheel about charge on them. knights and foot soldiers and kill and kill [screaming] and kill.
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This army has gathered here to save England from the sword of the tyrant and the acts of the barbarian, from rape and pillage, from injustice and fear. In such a cause, every man will carry out his orders so
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long as he has life and strength. Let every man here remember that today we must not only win a battle, we must end a war.
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[cheering] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. You ready? [screaming] What was that? Go to the P. Let them hide.
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trumpet the arches to the head. Let's fly. Let's fire. [screaming] Change to the right.
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Hey, heat. Hey. [screaming] I am here. We are surrounded. On the retreat. [screaming] All right.
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Yeah. [music] [music] [music] Yeah. [music] I'm the mother superior. I know the mission on which you have come.
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Please bear in mind your surroundings and that all visitors must leave when the Vesper's bell rings.
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Gwyn, what is this habit you are wearing? I am a novice. Thank God that I'm in time. Did you think I would not come? I have a horse for you outside and clothing.
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Why do you not look at me? What do I see in your eyes? Pity.
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Pity for the fear [music] which suddenly springs into mine. If you can stand there within reach of my arms, your lips an instant [music] away from mine, and not rush into my embrace.
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Lancelot, you must not speak so to me. I will shortly take my vows to become a nun of this order.
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No, no. I pray for your understanding so that you will not think so harshly of me or leave in too great pain. I would do any penance rather than cause you to suffer.
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No, I will not believe that when they cut off your golden hair, your love for me was shorn away as well. Oh Gwyn, a life [music] together awaits us.
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Everything we once hoped for, the warmth of our love, children, the rest of our lives to share. It was for this we went through [music] so much hell.
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What's happened to you? It would be hard to tell all that has happened to me in the year past.
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Much of it I do not understand myself. When first I was at the convent in Glastonbury, I prayed for the earthly things I had lost, all you now spoke of. Then my prayers changed. I know not how or why, and I
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prayed for other things, for the peace of your soul and mine, and for God's forgiveness and for his love.
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And now I know that the light which the [music] church speaks of, which many men seek all their lives, I have seen brightly shining. And I will follow that light until I die and beyond.
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You too will find that light if you try in your own way, in God's good time.
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Your gentleness is harder than any steel. I have no weapons against such armor. Is there no way through for me to reach your love?
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[bell] The vases bear and I've been told that I must leave forever. Where? To what?
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My atonement. The account is of longstanding [music] it is true and payment overdue. Perhaps that is what this all means.
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And I must find strength as you have. And I will pray. I know not what else to do.
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I shall pray for you each day and every night of my life. Farewell my golden hair.
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Heat. [music] [music] Heat. [music] [music]
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