...and JC Smith (Warwick Shakespeare) cite the well-known lines from Tennyson's Elaine, 871-872 : — " His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true." 1o3. conjecture] doubt, suspicion, as in The Winter's Tale, ni 176 :— " Added to their familiarity,...

...instance is the remark on Lancelot's refusal of Elaine's love on account of his passion for Guinevere: " His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true." Clearly Mr. Tennyson is not one who, like Ben Jonson, would tax Shakespeare with ridiculousness for...

...his recognition of the hideous unrighteousness of her conduct. Awful indeed is the description — His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true. It is not a little remarkable that, in giving another aspect of Lancelot's character, our artist has...

...the bravest and most courteous of her knights, and bound him to her service by ties so close, that " His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true." This becoming the scandal of the court, and Geraint, one of Arthur's knights, fearing lest his wife...

...that other world Another world for the sick man ; but now The shackles of an old love straiten'd him, His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true. So crime brings down its heavy them, and though he is not in an; forfeitures, making the life of the innocent...

...that other world Another world for the sick man ; but now The shackles of an old love straiten'd him, His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true. i Yet the great knight in his mid-sickness made Full many a holy vow and pure resolve. These, as but...

...that other world Another world for the sick man ; but now The shackles of an old love straiten'd him, His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true." And while he watches the barge that had brought her body to Camelot slowly dropping down the stream,...

...her sake ;' but the image of Guinevere abides alone, and guiltily supreme, in his great heart : — ' His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.' The character of Lancelot was so lofty and tender, so just, brave, and true, so generous and humble,...

...the cbwactw of Lancelot, as conceived by Mr. Tennyson, is contained in those two paradoxical lines : His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true. The constant strife with itself of a great soul committing deadly sin is shown in him : The great and...

...other world Another world for the sick man ; but note The shackles of an old love straitened him, Hit honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true. Yet the great knight in bis mid-sickness made Full many a holy vow and pure resolve. These, as but...