LE MORTE DARTHUR

Sir Thomas Malory's Book
of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights

of the Round Table

The text of Carton

EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION

BY

SIR EDWARD STRACHEY, BART.

Si quando indigenas revocabo in carmina reges,
Arturumque etiam sub terris bella moventem ;
Aut dicam invictae sociali foedere mensae
Magnanimos Heroas.-MILTON.

London

MACMILLAN AND CO.

AND NEW YORK

1893

TO

FRANCES STRACHEY

IIER FATHER INSCRIBES THIS BOOK

THE INTRODUCTION TO WHICH

COULD NOT HAVE BEEN NOW RE-WRITTEN

WITHOUT HER HELP

IN MAKING THE EAR FAMILIAR WITH WORDS

WHICH THE EYE CAN NO LONGER READ.