{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/arthur/art088.htm","path":"neu/arthur/art088.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/arthur/art088.htm","text":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\n Legends/Sagas\u00a0\n England\u00a0\n Index\u00a0\n Previous\u00a0\n Next\u00a0\n \n \n An Arthurian Miscellany\n THE LAST LOVE OF GAWAINE\n by\n RICHARD HOVEY\n \n \n You will betray me--oh, deny it not!\n What right have I, alas, to say you nay?\n I, traitor of ten loves, what shall I say\n To plead with you that I be not forgot?\n My love has not been squandered jot by jot\n In little loves that perish with the day.\n My treason has been ever to the sway\n Of queens; my faith has known no petty blot.\n You will betray me, as I have betrayed,\n And I shall kiss the hand that does me wrong.\n And oh, not pardon--I need pardon more--\n But in proud torment, grim and unafraid,\n Burn in my hell nor cease the bitter song\n Your beauty triumphs in forevermore.\n \n \n \n Next: The Marriage of Genevere: A Tragedy, by Richard Hovey [1899]","title":"Arthurian Miscellany: The Last Love of Gawaine, by Richard Hovey [1898]","type":"page"}