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Lanval

Llinellau gan Astamor (Cyfanswm: 93)

 
(1, 1) 378 I dreamt this night, pardie,
(1, 1) 379 An elf queen should my leman be,
(1, 1) 380 And lie beneath —
 
(1, 1) 382 She were cold else.
 
(1, 1) 384 See, Meliard, he cannot even bear
(1, 1) 385 The little mention of a covering.
 
(1, 1) 389 He only loves his thoughts
(1, 1) 390 And smiles on them. But still I do him wrong.
 
(1, 1) 392 Why, did he love his thoughts
(1, 1) 393 But half as much as he does love himself,
(1, 1) 394 He would out-shock the poets.
 
(1, 1) 398 But only the good will,
(1, 1) 399 God send us some one for the noble task.
 
(1, 1) 440 Well met, Geraint. We fare much the same
(1, 1) 441 As we did ever.
 
(2, 2) 1369 Geraint?
 
(2, 2) 1371 Surely.
 
(2, 2) 1374 Well met, Geraint, I come
(2, 2) 1375 Hot-foot to bring you summons to our war.
 
(2, 2) 1377 Aye, and no small one, in the pagan term.
(2, 2) 1378 The fire is up. The northmen have come down,
(2, 2) 1379 And the red Gaul from westward. Work's to hand.
(2, 2) 1380 You have not found him?
 
(2, 2) 1383 I hoped to hear some better news than this.
 
(2, 2) 1389 I can believe them.
 
(2, 2) 1397 In old and usual wise,
(2, 2) 1398 A messenger from some far fort besieged,
(2, 2) 1399 A rumour spreading from the common folk,
(2, 2) 1400 And then appeals, reports, and fearsome signs.
(2, 2) 1401 Then at the last plain statement of the case,
(2, 2) 1402 Two towers have fallen on the Clyde, the Gaul
(2, 2) 1403 Comes inward from the west, is helped
(2, 2) 1404 By the winged northmen.
 
(2, 2) 1407 I know not. They say
(2, 2) 1408 Caer Rhiddocks ta'en.
 
(2, 2) 1415 How is it, Geraint,
(2, 2) 1416 Lanval has 'scaped you?
 
(2, 2) 1422 You give him good scope.
 
(2, 2) 1433 Too much persistency
(2, 2) 1434 To spend on such an object.
 
(2, 2) 1444 Not far. No doubt some of these sullen dogs
(2, 2) 1445 Did murder him.
 
(2, 2) 1449 Well, if you think so —
 
(2, 2) 1452 One day's hard riding, though I squandered ten
(2, 2) 1453 In finding you.
 
(2, 2) 1467 Welcome, Sir Lanval.
 
(2, 2) 1487 He seems half dazed.
(2, 2) 1488 Hast thou been wounded, man,
(2, 2) 1489 Or in a sickness?
 
(2, 2) 1493 Aye, Lanval, tell it us.
 
(2, 2) 1499 This should be magic.
 
(2, 2) 1514 What workmanship!
 
(2, 2) 1520 Thou dost but edge our interest —
 
(2, 2) 1523 But surely we may hear
(2, 2) 1524 Some outline of the tale.
 
(2, 2) 1553 Come, be short, Geraint,
(2, 2) 1554 The sun is high.
 
(2, 2) 1561 We do linger here
(2, 2) 1562 While war's abroad.
 
(3, 1) 1652 Still, Meliard, we shall see well from here.
 
(3, 1) 1655 We are high, 'tis true,
(3, 1) 1656 But since our service keeps us to this room,
(3, 1) 1657 We must make shift to watch as best we can.
 
(3, 1) 1659 I do not know. They say that messengers
(3, 1) 1660 Have come from Persant.
 
(3, 1) 1662 No doubt.
 
(3, 1) 1667 Take care!
(3, 1) 1668 There are some here who love him. I do not,
(3, 1) 1669 And yet I'm cautious of too much disdain.
 
(3, 1) 1671 But he is wounded, man!
 
(3, 1) 1673 He got a bitter hurt of late;
(3, 1) 1674 A Pictish shaft through the left shoulder.
 
(3, 1) 1677 Oh, it concerns a very trifling fact;
(3, 1) 1678 He was accused of cowardice.
 
(3, 1) 1681 Of course;
(3, 1) 1682 Yet, Meliard, we both of us were there,
(3, 1) 1683 When this strange charge was first of all preferred.
(3, 1) 1684 Strange, that we saw no folly in it then!
 
(3, 1) 1686 Lanval's the defter in the use of swords,
(3, 1) 1687 And has the better eye for measure —
 
(3, 1) 1690 Well, we shall see,
(3, 1) 1691 It's close on noon, for look, the shadows shrink.
 
(3, 1) 1695 No Owain,
(3, 1) 1696 I have not seen him.
 
(3, 1) 1698 It is our day for duty. We attend
(3, 1) 1699 The pleasure of the King.
 
(3, 1) 1707 You are sure, Owain?
 
(3, 1) 1710 Come then, Sir Meliard.
 
(3, 1) 2258 Sir Lanval, here's my hand,
(3, 1) 2259 I have misjudged you.
 
(4, 2) 4042 Lanval!
 
(4, 2) 4045 How did he die?
 
(4, 2) 4050 The King should know it.