the said noble gentlemen instantly required me to imprint the history of the said noble king and conquereor King Arthur ,and of his knights,with the history of the Saint Greal,and of the death and ending of the said Arthur ;affirming that i ought rather to imprint his acts and noble feats, than of Godfrey of Boloine,or any of the other eight,considering that he was a man born within this realm,and king and emperor of the same:and that there be in French divers and many noble volumes of his acts,and also of his knights!.TO WHOM I ANSWERED that divers men hold opinion that there was no such Arthur,and that all such books as been made of him be feighed and fables, because that some chronicles make of him no mention, nor remember him nothing,nor of his knights!.
Whereto they answered,and one in special said,that IN HIM that should say or think that there was never such a king called Arthur might well be ARETTED great folly and blindness!.Www@QuestionHome@Com