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Memory and the Past Quotes
'Nevertheless you, O Sir Gauwaine, lie,Whatever may have happened through these years,God knows I speak the truth, saying that you lie.' (lines 46-8)
Choices Quotes
'Listen, suppose your time were come to die,And you were quite alone and very weak;Yea, laid a dying while very mightilyThe wind was ruffling up the narrow streakOf river through your broad lands r...
Appearances Quotes
She threw her wet hair backward from her brow (line 2)
Madness Quotes
Her voice was low at first, being full of tears,But as it cleared, it grew full loud and shrill,Growing a windy shriek in all men's ears,A ringing in their startled brains [...] (lines 49-52)
Sin Quotes
'God wot I ought to say, I have done ill,And pray you all forgiveness heartily!' (lines 13-14)