Idílios do rei (Idylls of the King), Lord Alfred, pg. 98 "(...)he was mute: So dark a forethought rolled about his brain, as on a dull day in an Ocean cave. The blind wave feeling round his long sea-hall in silence: wherefore, when she lifted up a face of sad appeal, and spake and said: ‘O Merlin, do ye love me?’ and again, ‘O Merlin, do ye love me?’ and once more, ‘Great Master, do ye love me?’ he was mute. And lissome Vivien, holding by his heel, writhed toward him, slided up his knee and sat, behind his ankle twined her hollow feet together, curved an arm about his neck, clung like a snake; and letting her left hand droop from his mighty shoulder, as a leaf, made with her right a comb of pearl to part the lists of such a board as youth gone out had left in ashes: then he spoke and said, not looking at her: - "Who are wise in love love most, say least."
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