 | Henry R. D. Anders - English drama - 1904 - 344 pages
...bosom. in the Percy Society, vol. XXX. The above ballad is on p. 38, and its first stanza runs thus: When Arthur first in court began, And was approved...great victories won, And conquests home did bring; etc. The ballad is nothing more than a rhymed version of certain chapters of Sir Thomas Malory's 'Le... | |
 | Howard Maynadier - Arthurian romances - 1907 - 488 pages
...Arthur. The same ballad is found in Percy's Beliquei, entitled Sir Lancelot da Lake. It begins : — " When Arthur first in court began, And was approved king, By force of armes great victorys wanne, And conquest home did bring." " When Arthur first in court began," at the... | |
 | Frederick LANGBRIDGE - 1911 - 510 pages
...Arnold, " Poetical Works ". II POEMS OF THE ARTHURIAN ROMANCE Flos Begum Arthurus. Joseph of Exeter. When Arthur first in court began And was approved King, By force of arms great victorys wanne, And conquest home did bring. Sir Lancelot du Lake. That gray King, whose name, a ghost,... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - Drama - 2002 - 322 pages
...peace, And had all things with heart's content, That might his joys increase. (2) Noble Acts of Arthur When Arthur first in court began, And was approved King, By force of arms great victories won, And conquest home did bring. (3) Chevy Chase God prosper long our noble king, Our lives and safeties all;... | |
 | Ross W. Duffin - Art - 2004 - 536 pages
...lines from a ballad entitled The Noble Acts Newly Found, of Arthur of the Table Round, which begins When Arthur first in court began, and was approved king: By force of arms great victories won and conquest home did bring. Falstaff starts the first line, then switches to a command — "empty the... | |
 | Frederick William Sternfeld - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 392 pages
...first two lines of Heywood's lyric are obviously a variant of the well-known ballad (Wooldridge I. 92): When Arthur first in Court began, And was approved King, By force of arms great victories won, And conquest home did bring. But the second half of Heywood's quatrain is related to 'Then they for sudden... | |
 | J. P. E. Harper-Scott - Music - 2006 - 9 pages
...developmental processes are largely driven by characterization. Elgar's rhetoric is apposite and concise. 'When Arthur first in court began And was approved king By force of arms great victories won, And conquest home did bring . . .' ('Sir Lancelot du Lake', in English and Scottish Ballads, ed. Francis... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - Cheshire (England) - 1871 - 268 pages
...2. t Act iii, Scene 3. [} Act ii, Scene 4 ; also, Percy's BMques, vol. I, p. 198, ed. 1767 : — " When Arthur first in court began, And was approved king, By force of arms great victories wanne, And conquest home did bring," &c.] I Act iv, Scene 2. [They sing — " Fear no more the heat... | |
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WHEN Arthur first in court began, And was approved king ; By force of arms great victories won, And conquest home did bring ; Then into Britain straight he came, Where fifty good and able Knights then repaired unto him, Which were of the Round Table. 
