Duke

The Prose Merlin (English)

• attestation: Arms mentioned near Duke [p40]: no sem- blaunce, saf that ofte (CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.)

  "and hir the kynge loved gretly, but ther-of he made no sem- blaunce, saf that often he be-heilde her more than a-nother;"

• attestation: Duke is attested [p40] in CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.: "Duke of Tintagel, and Ygrinc his wi" (CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.)

  "Ther was the Duke of Tintagel, and Ygrinc his wif;"

• attestation: Duke is attested [p42] in CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.: "Duke in his company, and yaf hym a" (CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.)

  "And so all the xv dayes hilde the kynge grete feste, and eudry day hadde the Duke in his company, and yaf hym a grete Iuwell, and also to his compers."

• attestation: Duke is attested [p43] in CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.: "Duke be the hande, and seide, gowe," (CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.)

  "And be than the kynge hadde waisshe, and was right mery and gladde, and toke the Duke be the hande, and seide, gowe, se these ladyes."

• attestation: Duke speaks or is addressed [p44]: "seide to the messagers, “I ne will not c" (CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.)

  "Whan the Duke herde that in the same forme he moste come a-geyn, he vndirstode wele he sholde bringe with hym Ygeme, and than he seide to the messagers, “I ne will not come at his courte, for he hath so don to me and to myne that I owe hym neyther to truste ne to loYe."

• relationship: Wife of at is mentioned (CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.)

  "” And he devised to leve his wif at Tintagel, and with hir x knyghtes, for he knewe that castell hadde no doute of no man, and hym-self wente to a-nother castell that was of lesse strengthe, and it stuffed in the beste wise that he myght, and seide that he myght not his other lo"

• attestation: Duke departs or rides [p44]: d so thei rode to the castell (CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.)

  "And so thei rode to the castell that the Duke was ynne;"

• attestation: Duke speaks or is addressed [p44]: "seide to Vlfin, “ What may I do whan I n" (CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.)

  "and than the kynge seide to Vlfin, “ What may I do whan I ne may not se Ygeme ?"

• attestation: Death is referenced near Duke [p49]: the Duke was deed. And thei hym (CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.)

  "And he hem asked how the Duke was deed."

• attestation: Duke departs or rides [p49]: n ye were departed the oste was s (CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.)

  "And thei hym tolden, “ The day when ye were departed the oste was stille and koye;"

• attestation: Death is referenced near Duke [p49]: y for the deth of the Duke. (CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.)

  "” And the kynge seide he was right sory for the deth of the Duke."

• attestation: Duke is attested [p50] in CHAPTER V: The barons counsel the king.: "Duke of Tintagel deed, and the cast" (CHAPTER V: The barons counsel the king.)

  "T hus was the Duke of Tintagel deed, and the castell loste."

• attestation: Narrative action [p50] in CHAPTER V: The barons counsel the king. involving Duke: "ounseile how he myght this thinge a-mende. bininot" (CHAPTER V: The barons counsel the king.)

  "And the kynge toke a-visement of his counseile how he myght this thinge a-mende."

• attestation: Duke is attested [p52] in CHAPTER V: The barons counsel the king.: "Duke; and thei may well lete hir kn" (CHAPTER V: The barons counsel the king.)

  "And thei seide, “We rede that ye make pees with the duchesse, and with the frendes of the Duke;"

• attestation: Death is referenced near Duke [p54]: e by thys deth, and therfore (CHAPTER V: The barons counsel the king.)

  "and ye knowe also that the parentes of the Duke haue grete losse by thys deth, and therfore it is right that the kynge restore hem agein her londes, after that thei ben;"

• attestation: Duke is attested [p54] in CHAPTER V: The barons counsel the king.: "Duke, and maden gode suertee, bothe" (CHAPTER V: The barons counsel the king.)

  "To this thei acorded, bothe the kynge and the lady and her frendes, and the parentes 1 of the Duke, and maden gode suertee, bothe on that oon *part and the tother."

• attestation: Narrative action [p54] in CHAPTER V: The barons counsel the king. involving Duke: "the barons wente to-geder, and asked oon of a-not" (CHAPTER V: The barons counsel the king.)

  "And than the barons wente to-geder, and asked oon of a-nother what was beste rede in this mater."

• attestation: Death is referenced near Duke [p56]: -fore his deth she hadde not (CHAPTER V: The barons counsel the king.)

  "ne she ne myght be grete by the Duke, for longe tyme be-fore his deth she hadde not hym seyn."

• attestation: Arms mentioned near Duke [p56]: ir in semblaunce of the Duke, a (CHAPTER V: The barons counsel the king.)

  "” And she tolde hym how a man hadde leyn with hir in semblaunce of the Duke, and brought with hym two men in semblaunce of two that the Duke loved beste of all the worlde."

• attestation: Duke is attested [p100] in CHAPTER X: The battle between arthur and the rebel zings at bredigan.: "Duke Escam, of Cambenyk, with v M1" (CHAPTER X: The battle between arthur and the rebel zings at bredigan.)

  "and com hem to helpe the Duke Escam, of Cambenyk, with v M1 men of armes,"

• attribution: Duke is described as was grete and (CHAPTER XII: The return of the eleven rings to their cities, and their encounter)

  "and he ioumeyde so till he com tc Cambenyk, his stronge Citee, that was grete and riche and full of alle maner godes, and with-ynne the Cite were iij M1 men defer¬ able, that of the Duke made grete ioye when thei hym saugh, for gretly hadde thei be affraide of the saisnes that thei hadde The Saxons"