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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Four Arthurian Romances by Chretien DeTroyes: it is true, but I assure you that, if he were dead, I should
never be happy again. All my joy would be cut off, if a knight
had been killed in my service."
(Vv. 4441-4530.) Then the king leaves her, and the Queen yearns
ardently for the arrival of her lover and her joy. She has no
desire this time to bear him any grudge. But rumour, which never
rests but runs always unceasingly, again reaches the Queen to the
effect that Lancelot would have killed himself for her sake, if
he had had the chance. She is happy at the thought that this is
true, but she would not have had it happen so for anything, for
her sorrow would have been too great. Thereupon Lancelot arrived
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