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 And still those lovers' fame survives For faith so constant shown; There were two that loved their neighbours' wives, And one that loved his own."

Alas! that the very first of these in arms, in courtesy, in personal advantages, and, but for the one foul blot, in honourable fame, should have been Lancelot de Lac, the ornament of chivalry Alas! that the lady of his guilty love should have been that

whose rightful place was on the bosom of "the stainless king."

Their fatal passion, that grew so insensibly in those fair May-days, long ago, when the pair

has struck root now, deep, deep in the hearts of both, and spreading like the deadly