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Beware, Merlin of Britain: you have made the Great Marriage and pledged yourself to die for the preservation of the Mysteries. And he bore the sacred sword Excalibur from the Holy Regalia. to Arthur; never again should Lancelet have from her even these games and toyings which made them both ache for more . He laughed and said, What a fool of a boy I was-my lord Arthur, have you ever forgiven me, that I refused your offer to knigh

but at last there came a day when I could look back and know that the time for mourning was ended; my lover and my child Like enough there will be rain before morning, he murmured, caressing her shoulder and her small hands. But I warn you again, Gwenhwyfar: charms do not their magic as men and women would have it, but by their own laws, and those laws are as strange as the running of time in the fairy country. The great pools are choked, and when the Saxons came they carried off much of the fine work, and threw down the statue of the Goddess, but the