“Now tell me, Amidas, if you can, by what good right do you withhold
to-day that part of your brother’s land which the sea has plucked away
from him, and laid on your share?”
“What other right,” quoth Amidas, “would you deem valid, except that the
sea laid it to my share?”
“Your right is good,” said Sir Artegall, “and so I judge it. That which
the sea sent unto you should be your own.”