Nor did he recover until he found himself in the boat, hishead resting on the knees of the aged Druid, who said to him, "Neveragain, O king! must you encounter the danger you have barely escaped. Hadyou failed, you would have become subject to your opponent, whose strengthhas been maturing for years to overpower you. Had you yielded, you would,although a king, have become but as are those dark-browed men who till hisfields and do his bidding. For know you not what the name Hanner Dynmeans? It means--Habit; and the force of habit, at first weak, thengrowing constantly stronger, ends in conquering even kings!"XKING ARTHUR AT AVALONIn the ruined castle at Winchester, England, built by William theConqueror, there is a hall called "The Great Hall," where Richard Coeur deLion was received by his nobles when rescued from captivity; where HenryIII. was born; where all the Edwards held court; where Henry VIII.entertained the emperor Charles V.; where Queen Mary was married to PhilipII.; where Parliament met for many years. It is now a public hall for thecounty; and at one end of it the visitor sees against the wall a vastwooden tablet on which the names of King Arthur's knights of the RoundTable are inscribed in a circle. No one knows its date or origin, thoughit is known to be more than four hundred years old, but there appear uponit the names most familiar to those who have read the legends of KingArthur, whether in Tennyson's poems or elsewhere.
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