the feast of Pentacost all manner of men assayed to
pull at the sword that wold assay, but none might prevail but Arthur,
and he pulled it afore all the lords and commons that were there,
wherefore all the commons cried at once, \'We will have Arthur unto
our king; we will put him no more in delay, for we all see that it is
God\'s will that he shall be our king, and who that holdeth against it,
we will slay him\'.
And therewith they all kneeled at once, both rich and
poor, and cried Arthur mercy because they had delayed him so
long. And Arthur forgave them, and took the sword between
both his hands, and offered it upon the altar where the Archbishop
was, and so was he made knight of the best man there.
The above passage is from LeMmorte d\'Arthur : the history of King Arthur
and his noble knights of the Round Table, by Sir Thomas Malory, a book that
was written and published between 1469-1470, during the reign of King Edward
IV. Prior to this document, the......
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