Note 25 — Chapter VII · OF CAMELOT AND ALMESBURY
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Lytton, agreeing with Southey that Gawaine’s character suffered at the caprice of the poets and that he was “shamefully calumniated,” speaks of
“Frank Gawaine, Whom mirth for ever, like a fairy child, Lock’d from the cares of life.”
William Morris, in The Defence of Guenevere, makes Gawaine the accuser of the queen, and he is denounced for treachery.