Moreover, I shall take with me my lady and the young child Launcelot, to place them within the care of King Arthur during these dolorous wars.

First he removed an enchantment that overhung a castle, hight Dolorous Gard; and he freed that castle and liberated all the sad, sorry captives that lay therein.

(And this castle he held for his own and changed the name from Dolorous Gard to Joyous Gard and the castle became very famous afterward as his best-loved possession.

[Sidenote: The sable knight makes prisoner of Sir Ector] There he found many knights of King Arthur's court, and several of the Round Table, all of whom he knew, and when they beheld Sir Ector flung in unto them in that fashion they lifted up their voices in great lamentation that he should have been added to their number, instead of freeing them from their dolorous and pitiable case.

For it was thou who didst slay my brother Sir Caradus at Dolorous Gard, who was held to be the best knight in all the world.

"Talk not," says the shade of Achilles to Ulysses in the Odyssey, "'Talk not of reigning in this dolorous gloom, Nor think vain lies,' he cried, 'can ease my doom.

Then, stripped to the waist, these poor zealots go chanting a dolorous strain, and beating themselves unsparingly upon the back with the sharp-spined cactus, or soap-weed, until they are a revolting sight to look upon.

Can't you do something for a poor workingman, lady, with a poor dying motherand a poor, sick wife," Mr. Flinks added as a dolorous afterthought; and drew nearer to her and held out one hand appealingly.

It is of him I am about to speak, and of his friend Morgante, and of Gan the traitor, who beguiled him to his death in Roncesvalles, where he sounded his horn so mightily after the dolorous rout.

His voiced aroused me; and I said, "Alas All their sweet thoughts then, all the steps that led To love, but brought them to this dolorous pass.

Oh, way down 'pon the Swa-a-nee ribber" He broke into dolorous song and turned back into the cookhouse.

THE LAY OF THE DOLOROUS KNIGHT IV.

And to the dolorous lady, dolorous knight.

And to the dolorous lady, dolorous knight.

III THE LAY OF THE DOLOROUS KNIGHT Hearken now to the Lay that once I heard a minstrel chanting to his harp.

The Lay of the Dolorous Knight, my harper called his song, but of those who hearkened, some named it rather, The Lay of the Four Sorrows.

" When the knight heard these words he made answer very swiftly, "Lady, name it not the Lay of the Four Sorrows, but, rather, the Lay of the Dolorous Knight.

For this reason your Lay should bear my name, and be called the Lay of the Dolorous Knight.

So shall the song be known as the Lay of the Dolorous Knight.

Either name befits it well, for the story tells of both these matters, but it is the use and wont in this land to call it the Lay of the Dolorous Knight.

645 And hither is he come at last, When he through such a day has gone, By this dark cave to be distrest Like a poor birdher plundered nest Hovering around with dolorous moan!

Have ye getten any more royalties yonder?" "I've used up pretty near all th' royal fam'ly," replied Margaret, with a recurrence of her former dolorous pride; "it's the only mark o' respect as I can show my sovering.

To-day, however, her countenance wore an expression of tempered woe, and her voice was only moderately dolorous, for the trouble which she was about to lament was a vicarious one.

" Giles rolled his eyes towards him with a startled expression, but said nothing for a moment or two; then he remarked, in a somewhat dolorous tone: "I d' 'low I'll miss you, Jim; you and me has sat side by side this fifteen year'tis fifteen year, bain't it, since ye come?

" The poor little snuffy mayor bows a dolorous acquiescence.