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Linet

Linet is active in the narrative at passage 202, clause 2

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Linet is active in the narrative at passage 202, clause 2 (Le Morte d'Arthur, Le Morte d'Arthur > Book VII > Chapter XV. How the damosel and Beaumains came to the siege; and came to a sycamore tree, and there Beaumains blew a horn, and then the Knight of the Red Launds came to fight with him.)

Linet is active in the narrative at passage 202, clause 8 (Le Morte d'Arthur, Le Morte d'Arthur > Book VII > Chapter XV. How the damosel and Beaumains came to the siege; and came to a sycamore tree, and there Beaumains blew a horn, and then the Knight of the Red Launds came to fight with him.)

In passage 213: And forthwithal came Dame Linet (Le Morte d'Arthur, Le Morte d'Arthur > Book VII > Chapter XXII. How at night came an armed knight, and fought with Sir Gareth, and he, sore hurt in the thigh, smote off the knight’s head.)

Le Morte d'Arthur

  • attestation: Linet is active in the narrative at passage 202, clause 2 (Le Morte d'Arthur > Book VII > Chapter XV. How the damosel and Beaumains came to the siege; and came to a sycamore tree, and there Beaumains blew a horn, and then the Knight of the Red Launds came to fight with him.)

    "and upon the morn he and the damosel Linet heard their mass and brake their fast"

  • attestation: Linet is active in the narrative at passage 202, clause 8 (Le Morte d'Arthur > Book VII > Chapter XV. How the damosel and Beaumains came to the siege; and came to a sycamore tree, and there Beaumains blew a horn, and then the Knight of the Red Launds came to fight with him.)

    "But, sir, I pray you, said the damosel Linet, blow ye not the horn till it be high noon, for now it is about prime, and now increaseth his might, that as men say he hath seven men’s strength"

  • attestation: In passage 213: And forthwithal came Dame Linet (Le Morte d'Arthur > Book VII > Chapter XXII. How at night came an armed knight, and fought with Sir Gareth, and he, sore hurt in the thigh, smote off the knight’s head.)

    "And forthwithal came Dame Linet, and took up the head in the sight of them all, and anointed it with an ointment thereas it was smitten off; and in the same wise she did to the other part thereas the head stuck, and then she set it together, and it stuck as fast as ever it did."