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Pellam the King, who held and lost with Lot / In that first war, and had his realm restored / But rendered tributary, failed of late / To send his tribute; wherefore Arthur called / His treasurer, one of many years, and spake, / "Go thou with him and him and bring it to us, / Lest we should set one truer on his throne.
Man's word is God in man." / His Baron said / "We go but harken: there be two strange knights / Who sit near Camelot at a fountain-side, / A mile beneath the forest, challenging / And overthrowing every knight who comes.