Dukes

The Prose Merlin (English)

• attribution: Dukes holds the title of king of his (CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.)

  "Whan the barons were assem¬ bled, the kynge to hem rehersed the grete dispyte of brekynge of his courte, and the barons seiden it was reson that the forfet were redressed."

• attestation: Dukes is attested [p50] in CHAPTER V: The barons counsel the king.: "Dukes frendes, wherof the kynge ask" (CHAPTER V: The barons counsel the king.)

  "” Than Ylfyn toke a-part the barons, and seide, “How seme ye that this myght be amended a-geyn the lady and a-geyn the Dukes frendes, wherof the kynge asketh yow counseile."

• attestation: Dukes is attested [p54] in CHAPTER V: The barons counsel the king.: "Dukes eldest doughter to kynge loth" (CHAPTER V: The barons counsel the king.)

  "And whan he hath all thus do, and graunted that, than he first of all mary the Dukes eldest doughter to kynge loth of Orcanye, whiche is here"

• attestation: Dukes is attested [p55] in CHAPTER V: The barons counsel the king.: "Dukes doughter.” And than ansuerde" (CHAPTER V: The barons counsel the king.)

  "” And the kynge seide, “Ye, yef the duchesse and her frendes be contente, and that the kynge loth will for me take the Dukes doughter."