...dominant idea or image. Thus Sir Bedivere's response to the King in ' ' The Passing of Arthur : ' ' " I heard the water lapping on the crag, And the long ripple washing in the reeds." Or this verse from ' ' Godiva : ' ' " Then she rode back clothed on with chastity." Or, in lighter...

...down, By zig-zag paths, and juts of pointed rock, Came on the shining levels of the lake : ' and so ' Heard the water lapping on the crag, And the long ripple washing in the reeds.' In this purely picturesque treatment of Nature, Tennyson's mastery of happy phrase, though at times...

...heavily : " What is it thou hast seen ? or what hast heard ? " And answer made the bold Sir Bediverc : " I heard the water lapping on the crag, And the long ripple washing in the rceds." To whom replied King Arthur, much in wrath : " Ah, miserable and unkind, untrue, Unknightly,...

...heavily : 'What is it thou hast seen? or what hast heard?' And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere : ' I heard the water lapping on the crag, And the long ripple washing, in the reeds.' To whom replied King Arthur, much in wrath : 'Ah, miserable and unkind, untrue, Unknightly, traitor-hearted...

...heavily : ' What is it thou hast seen ? or what hast heard : And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere : ' I heard the water lapping on the crag, And the long ripple washing in the reeds.' To whom replied King Arthur, much in wrath : 'Ah, miserable and unkind, untrue, Unknightly, traitor-hearted...

...heavily: ' What is it thou hast seen ? or what hast heard ? ' And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere : ' I heard the water lapping on the crag, And the long ripple washing in the reeds.' To whom replied King Arthur, much in wrath : ' Ah, miserable and unkind, untrue, Unknightly, traitor-hearted...

...asks : " What hast thou seen, what heard ? " Bedivere answers : * * The second answer is changed — I heard the water lapping on the crag. And the long ripple washing in the reeds. Both of them have the modern note, especially in the adjectives ; but though they lose simplicity,...

...heavily : 'What is it thou hast seen? or what hast heard?' And answer :nade the bold Sir Bedivere : ' I heard the water lapping on the crag, And the long ripple washing in the reeds.' 285 To whom replied King Arthur, much in wrath : ' Ah miserable and unkind, untrue, Unknightly, traitor-hearted...

...thynge but the waters wappe and the wawes wanne " ; which in the poem becomes the famous couplet : — " I heard the water lapping on the crag, And the long ripple washing in the reeds." When the king is put on board the barge, Malory says : " And there receyued hym thre quenes wyth grete...

...second time, And so strode back slow to the wounded King. And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere : * I heard the water lapping on the crag, And the long ripple washing in the reeds.' To whom replied King Arthur, much in wrath : ' Ah, miserable and unkind, untrue, Unknightly, traitor-hearted...