"And could he find
A woman, in her womanhood, as great
As he was in his manhood, then, he sang,
The twain together well might change the world."
"But he never mocks;
For mockery is the fume of little hearts."
"For, in those days,
No knight of Arthur's noblest dealt in scorn;
But if a man were halt or hunched,--in him,
By those whom God had made full-fed and tall,
Scorn was allowed, as part of his defect."
GUINEVERE, in _Idyls of the King_.