of the King, having been published in 1842, under the title Morte D'Arthur. They were made a part of The Passing of Arthur in 1870. In the collected works they still also appear as a separate poem-on page 68 of the one-volume edition.

232. Marge. Margin, shore.

243. Fealty. Fidelity of an inferior to a lord.

248. Lief. Beloved. Dear. Precious.

254. Chased. Engraved.

257. Worthy note. Worthy of note.

278. Clouded with his own conceit. Confused with his own thoughts.

293. Offices. Duties.

295. Lust. Love, desire.

297. For. Since, because.

305. Made lightnings. With the flashings of its blade and the jewels in the hilt.

307. A streamer of the northern morn. The aurora borealis, or northern lights.

308. Moving isles of winter. Icebergs.

315. The other. Bedivere.

325. Wheeling.

Whirling.

337. Blue eyes. The king was fair in complexion. See line 384 and The Coming of Arthur, 329.

349-360. These lines are perhaps the finest that Tennyson ever wrote for expressive harmony. They should be committed to

memory.

351. The same phenomenon has been noticed by Wordsworth, The Prelude, Book VIII:

"In size a giant, stalking through thick fog."

366. Three Queens. See The Coming of Arthur, 275-278, and Gareth and Lynette, 225.

66

367. Shivered. 'Thrilled, vibrated."

LITTLEDALE.

383. Greaves. Armor for the front of the lower part of the legs. Cuisses. Armor for the front of the thighs.

Dashed with drops of onset. Spattered with blood in the onset, or battle.

398. Noble chance. An opportunity to perform a noble deed. 401. Holy Elders. The Magi. See Matthew ii: 11-12.

403. An image of the mighty world. Malory says (Morte d'Arthur, XIV, Chap. ii): "Also Merlin made the Round Table in tokening of the roundness of the world, for by the Round Table is the world signified by right."

408. This line is quoted from The Coming of Arthur, 508. 425. These. The three Queens of line 366.

435. Fluting a wild carol ere her death. "Sir Thomas Browne in his Vulgar Errors says: From great antiquity and before

the melody of Syrens, the musical note of swans hath been commended, and they sing most sweetly before their death.""

- Quoted by Littledale from DYER'S English Folklore. 445. From the great deep to the great deep. Compare The Coming of Arthur, 410.

453-456. The three . . . at his need?

Arthur, 275-278.

See The Coming of

469. The "old order" has passed away, and the new comes in with the new year's sun.

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