King Arthur and His Noble Knights

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. There is no more delightful book of its Kll'ld in the English language than Malory's M orte Darthm', and there are few that in certain periods at least have had more numerous or more illustrious readers. It was written at a time when our language was greatly un settled, and it undoubtedly exercised much influence in settling it. It furnished an excellent specimen and a conspicuous standard of English prose. At an epoch when the age of chivalry was swiftly passing away, it caught and preserved its fading colors. It reduced the old cumbrous and endless Romances to convenient and readable dimensions, and provided a charming sum mary of them both for its own age and all ages to come.