The Lay of Tyolet translated by Jessie L. Weston this work is
copywrite free  AFORETIME when King Arthur reigned over the
country of Britain, which is now called England, there were, I
think me, far fewer folk in the land than there are to-day. But
Arthur, whose valour I highly praise, had in his company many
brave and noble knights. Of a sooth there are even now knights
of high fame and renown, yet are they not such manner of men as
they were of old time.  For then the best and bravest knights
were wont to wander through the land seeking adventures by day
and by night, with never a squire for company, and it might well
be that in the day's journey they found neither house nor tower,
or again perchance they would find two or three such. Or by
dusky night they might find fair adventures, the which they
would tell again at court, even as they had befallen. And the
clerks of the court would write them fairly on parchment in the
Latin tongue, so that in days to come, men, an they would, might
hearken to them. And