Le Morte Darthur, Chapter 271: riassunto

Cosa succede

1. Bellangere proposes Alisander's knighting, and Anglides agrees while warning that she must give her son a grave charge.
2. The constable arranges for Alisander and twenty well-born companions to receive knighthood on Lady Day in Lent.
3. During mass, Anglides shows Alisander his father's bloodstained clothes and says King Mark murders him before her eyes.
4. Anglides demands revenge and faints; Alisander catches her and promises God and his mother to avenge his father when he can.
5. After receiving a horse and armour, Sir Alisander jousts with his twenty companions and knocks each down with one blow.

Cosa notare

Alisander accepts his mother's charge. His promise makes revenge a personal duty, but gives no fixed time for acting.

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