The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and w… - Thomas Malory

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The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.

Thomas Malory

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Sir Thomas Malory (c. 1405 – 14 March 1471) was an English author. His prose epic Le Morte d'Arthur, written during a long imprisonment in Newgate Prison as a captured partisan of the Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick during the Wars of the Roses, covers the careers of King Arthur and his knights. It is largely a free translation of various French romances.

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In the midst of the lake Arthur was ware of an arm clothed in white samite, that held a fair sword in that hand.

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What, nephew, said the king, is the wind in that door?

The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long. - Thomas Malory

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