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Loathly Lady
The Loathly Lady. A lady so hideous that no one would marry her except Sir Gawain; and immediately after the marriage her ugliness — the effect of enchantment — disappeared, and she became a model of beauty.
King Arthur rode homeward, but not light of heart; for he
remembered the promise he was under to the loathly lady to give
her one of his young and gallant knights for a husband. He told
his grief to Sir Gawain, his nephew, and he replied, “Be
not sad, my lord, for I will marry the loathly lady.” King
Arthur replied:–
“Now nay, now nay, good Sir Gawaine,
My sister’s son ye be;
The loathly lady’s all too grim,
And all too foule for thee.”
Sir
Gawain's Marriage
