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Launcelot is the free-lance but it's a toss-up as to whether he or Arthur is the main hero of the tales of the Knights of the Round Table.
Lieutenants, sergeants, squires, free-lances, and the hero-king 2008
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And all aloud she called Launcelot, for that he seemed a knight errant.
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And all aloud she called Launcelot, for that he seemed a knight errant.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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And all aloud she called Launcelot, for that he seemed a knight errant.
Chapter V. The Fifteenth Book. How Sir Launcelot Jousted with Many Knights, and How He Was Taken 1909
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And all aloud she called Launcelot, for that he seemed a knight errant.
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So, he was pleased to discover that he had parts in all four of the new plays that Cravan's company was going to perform: He was a character called "Bottom" in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, a servant called Launcelot in Merchant of Venice, and King Duncan in Macbeth.
The Wizard Of Karres Lackey, Mercedes 2004
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Pellias and the Lady of the Lake begged them to knight their protégé and pupil, who was henceforth to be known as Launcelot of the Lake.
The Book of the Epic 1894
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"Launcelot," and the monk spoke sternly and yet with great sadness,
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Spells it "Launcelot" all through.] [Footnote 23: 1833.
The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson Alfred Tennyson Tennyson 1850
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Even if it occurs at a glacial pace, supporters of such a ban, who the critics say aren't so keen on the politics, believe they have the facts and the science on their side, and that "at the length truth will out," in the words of Launcelot Gobbo in The Merchant of Venice, and that reality will eventually carry the day.
John B. Townsend II: The Lake Wobegon Effect and the Cell Phone Ban John B. Townsend II 2011
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