Le Morte Darthur, Chapter 500 요약

줄거리

1. Following the hermit’s advice about a vision, Sir Launcelot takes seven companions on foot to Almesbury.
2. They arrive half an hour after Queen Guenever dies, and the ladies report her prayers not to see Launcelot alive.
3. Launcelot performs funeral services, and the companions escort her body to Glastonbury with torches and prayers.
4. The hermit celebrates mass, and Guenever’s body is wrapped, enclosed in lead, and placed in a marble coffin.
5. Launcelot faints during the burial, and the hermit rouses him and condemns his excessive grief.
6. Launcelot explains that remembering Arthur and Guenever’s goodness and his own pride overwhelms him.

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The rebuke prompts Launcelot to explain his collapse. He presents his grief as sorrow over goodness lost and guilt for his own pride, rather than delight in sin.

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