title: PenDRAGON'S REQUITE: King Arthur Triumphant!
author: Victor Brice
description: Victor Charles Brice is a proud Army veteran and freelance artist/writer. Victor has spoken on behalf of the Maryland Business Round Table for Achievement Counts and participates in local charity sponsored 5K races. Victor is a member of the NAACP and the Baltimore Science Fiction Society.
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  # Arthur and Gorlagon
  
  
  ### Anonymous
  
  
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  At the City of the Legions King Arthur was keeping the renowned
  
  
  festival of Pentecost, to which he invited the great men and nobles of
  
  
  the whole of his kingdom, and when the solemn rites had been duly
  
  
  performed he bade them to a banquet, furnished with everything thereto
  
  
  pertaining.
  
  
  And as they were joyfully partaking of the feast of rich abundance,
  
  
  Arthur, in his excessive joy, threw his arms around the Queen, who was
  
  
  sitting beside him, and embracing her, kissed her very affectionately
  
  
  in the sight of all. But she was dumbfounded at his conduct, and
  
  
  blushing deeply, looked up at him and asked why he had kissed her thus
  
  
  at such an unusual place and hour.
  
  
  Arthur: Because amidst all my riches I have nothing so
  
  
  pleasing and amidst all my delights nothing so sweet, as thou art.
  
  
  The Queen: Well, if, as you say, you love 