Quote#Love
For as well as I have loved thee, mine heart will not serve me to see…
Quote byThomas Malory · 1405–1471
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Le Morte d'Arthur (c. 1469) (first known edition 1485), Book XXI, ch. 9.
English (original)
For as well as I have loved thee, mine heart will not serve me to see thee, for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed.
— Thomas Malory
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