Blase (hermit)

The Prose Merlin (English)

• attestation: Blase (hermit) speaks or is addressed [p13]: "ansuerde and seide, “The boke I will gla" (CHAPTER I: Consultation op devils, and berth of meblin.)

  ",, Blase ansuerde and seide, “The boke I will gladly make;"

• attestation: Blase (hermit) is attested [p13] in CHAPTER I: Consultation op devils, and berth of meblin.: "Blase my moders confessour.” The lu" (CHAPTER I: Consultation op devils, and berth of meblin.)

  "“I pray the,” quod he, “ tellith to Blase my moders confessour."

• attestation: Blase prepares writing materials to record what Merlin tells him (CHAPTER I: Consultation op devils, and berth of meblin.)

  "B lase sought all that hym mystered to write with, and when he was all redy, Merlyn be-gan to telle"

• attestation: Blase (hermit) speaks or is addressed [p19]: "seide to them, Blase." (CHAPTER II: King vortiger and his tower.)

  "When thei were alyght, he brought hem be-fore blase, and seide, “ Se hem here H« bring* that I tolde sholde come to seche me to ale,” and seide to them, Blase."

• attestation: Blase (hermit) is attested [p21] in CHAPTER II: King vortiger and his tower.: "Blase, youre maister, also shall go" (CHAPTER II: King vortiger and his tower.)

  "And Blase, youre maister, also shall go, and moste we bothe departe fro yow at this tymo."

• attestation: Blase (hermit) is attested [p27] in CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.: "Blase, and tolde hym alle thynges l" (CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.)

  "And as soone as Merlin hadde seid the kynge, alle the tokenynges of the two dragons, he toke leve, and wente to Blase, and tolde hym alle thynges like as were be- ffalle;"

• attestation: Blase (hermit) is attested [p34] in CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.: "Blase, and Blase axed Merlin yef th" (CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.)

  "Ho tolde to Blase, and Blase axed Merlin yef thei MERLIN COUNSELS THE KINO TO MAKE A FEAST."

• attestation: Blase (hermit) is attested [p52] in CHAPTER V: The barons counsel the king.: "Blase, and tolde hym alle these thi" (CHAPTER V: The barons counsel the king.)

  "And Merlin wente to Blase, and tolde hym alle these thinges, and many other, and alle he wrote in his boke."

• attestation: Blase (hermit) is attested [p57] in CHAPTER V: The barons counsel the king.: "Blase. The king sends after the nob" (CHAPTER V: The barons counsel the king.)

  "Merlin takes his leave and goes to Blase."

• attestation: Blase (hermit) is attested [p65] in CHAPTER VI: Arthur made king.: "blase, and tolde hym alle these thi" (CHAPTER VI: Arthur made king.)

  "” Thus wente Merlin to blase, and tolde hym alle these thinges."

• attestation: Arms mentioned near Blase (hermit) [p83]: other semblaunce than thow dost (CHAPTER VIII: The mission of ulfyn and bretell to kino ban and king bobs.)

  "but ofte tymes shalt thow se me in other semblaunce than thow doste now, for I will not that alle peple knowe me whan I speke with hem, or whan I speke with the;"

• attestation: Blase (hermit) is attested [p99] in CHAPTER X: The battle between arthur and the rebel zings at bredigan.: "Blase, and tolde hym alle these thy" (CHAPTER X: The battle between arthur and the rebel zings at bredigan.)

  "” With that the kynge toke hym the rynge, and Merlyn it toke and comaunded hem to god, and yede thider as I haue yow tolde, and com be Blase, and tolde hym alle these thynges, that nought he lefte vn-seide;"