. The poetic and dramatic works of Alfred lord Tennyson. as my son, Sir Torre,And so, God wot, his shield is blank ye can have/ Then added plain Sir Torre,Yea, since I cannot use it, ye may have laughd the father saying: Fie, Sir Churl,Is that an answer for a noble knight ?Allow him ! but Lavaine, my younger here, 201 He is so full of lustihood, he will ride,Joust for it, and win, and bring it in an hour,And set it in this damsels golden hair,To make her thrice as wilful as before. Nay, father, nay, good father, shame me notBefore this noble knight/ said young Lavaine,1 For
. The poetic and dramatic works of Alfred lord Tennyson. as my son, Sir Torre,And so, God wot, his shield is blank ye can have/ Then added plain Sir Torre,Yea, since I cannot use it, ye may have laughd the father saying: Fie, Sir Churl,Is that an answer for a noble knight ?Allow him ! but Lavaine, my younger here, 201 He is so full of lustihood, he will ride,Joust for it, and win, and bring it in an hour,And set it in this damsels golden hair,To make her thrice as wilful as before. Nay, father, nay, good father, shame me notBefore this noble knight/ said young Lavaine,1 For nothing. Surely I but playd on Torre,He seemd so sullen, vext he could not go;A jest, no more! for, knight, the maiden dreamt 210 That some one put this diamond in her hand,And that it was too slippery to be slipt and fell into some pool or stream,The castle-well, belike; and then I saidThat if I went and if I fought and won it —But all was jest and joke among our-selves—Then must she keep it safelier. All was jest. LANCELOT AND ELAINE 491. The lily maid Elaine . .Lifted her eyes and read his lineaments But, father, give me leave, an if he will,To ride to Camelot with this noble shall I not, but do my best to win;Young as I am, yet would I do my best. 221 So ye will grace me/ answerdLancelot, Smiling a moment, with your fel-lowship Oer these waste downs whereon I lostmyself, Then were I glad of you as guide andfriend; And you shall win this diamond, — asI hear, It is a fair large diamond, — if yemay, And yield it to this maiden, if ye will/ 492 IDYLLS OF THE KING A fair large diamond, added plainSir Torre, 1 Such be for queens, and not for sim-ple maids/ 230 Then she, who held her eyes upon theground, Elaine, and heard her name so tostabout, Flushd slightly at the slight dispar-agement Before the stranger knight, who, look-ing at her, Full courtly, yet not falsely, thus re-turnd : If what is fair be but for what isfair, And only queens are to be coun
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