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Thomas Malory

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The sweetness of love is short-lived, but the pain endures.


— Thomas Malory


#love #love

Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place; and men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the holy cross.


— Thomas Malory


#england #hope #immortality #king-arthur #matter-of-britain

I shall bere your noble fame, for ye spake a grete worde and fulfilled it worshipfully.


— Thomas Malory


#getting-things-done #keeping-faith #faith

This beast went to the well and drank, and the noise was in the beast's belly like unto the questing of thirty couple hounds, but all the while the beast drank there was no noise in the beast's belly.


— Thomas Malory


#belly #couple #drank #hounds #like

For as well as I have loved thee heretofore, mine heart will not serve now to see thee; for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed.


— Thomas Malory


#flower #heart #heretofore #i #kings

For, as I suppose, no man in this world hath lived better than I have done, to achieve that I have done.


— Thomas Malory


#better #done #hath #i #lived

King Pellinore that time followed the questing beast.


— Thomas Malory


#followed #king #questing #time

The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit.


— Thomas Malory


#bring #come #every #forth #fruit

What, nephew, said the king, is the wind in that door?


— Thomas Malory


#king #nephew #said #wind

Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.


— Thomas Malory


#born #england #king #out #stone






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Did you know about Thomas Malory?

His being interred here suggests that his misdeeds were forgiven and that he possessed some wealth either the result of his robberies or some unknown patron possibly Richard Neville Earl of Warwick under whom Malory may have spent time as a paid spy. In between in June 1450 he found the time to break into the house of Hugh Smyth of Monks Kirby stealing £40 pounds of goods and raping his wife. Eight weeks later Malory alone was charged with attacking the same woman in Coventry.

Since the late nineteenth century he has generally been identified as Sir Thomas Malory of Newbold Revel in Warwickshire a knight land-owner and Member of Parliament. Sir Thomas Malory (died 14 March 1471) was an English writer the author or compiler of Le Morte d'Arthur.

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