"Sir, there be many rumours on this head: For there be those who hate him in their hearts, Call him baseborn, and since his ways are sweet, And theirs are bestial, hold him less than man: And there be those who deem him more than man, And dream he dropt from heaven"
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson, in Idylls of the King (1856β1885), The Coming of Arthur
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