Yvain, or the Knight with the Lion · 1914
Lines 6759–6776
Translated by W. W. Comfort (Everyman's Library, 1914)
The lady, trembling at these words, replied: "God save me! You have caught me neatly in a trap! You will make me love, in spite of myself, a man who neither loves nor esteems me. This is a fine piece of work, and a charming way of serving me! I would rather endure the winds and the tempests all my life: And if it were not a mean and ugly thing to break one's word, he would never make his peace or be reconciled with me. This purpose would have always lurked within me, as a fire smoulders in the ashes; but I do not wish to renew it now, nor do I care to refer to it, since I must be reconciled with him."
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Troyes, Chrétien de. Yvain, or the Knight with the Lion, Lines 6759–6776. Translated by W. W. Comfort. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/work/yvain-comfort/55/.
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Troyes, Chrétien de. Yvain, or the Knight with the Lion, Lines 6759–6776. Translated by W. W. Comfort. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/work/yvain-comfort/55/.