3 Chapter 1

CHAPTER 1 How King Arthur Went to Cameliard and Disguised Himself for a Certain Purpose and How He Fought with the Duke of North Umber One day, while Arthur was hosting a huge feast with all of his great court around him, a messenger appeared from the west country. "Lord," he cried breathlessly, "I come with a message from King Leodegrance of

第1章亚瑟王如何为了某种目的去了卡米利亚并伪装了自己以及他如何与北安布尔公爵作战一天，当亚瑟王和他所有的宫廷成员在他周围举办一场盛大的宴会时，一个信使从西方国家出现了。 “主啊，”他上气不接下气地叫道，“我带来了利奥格伦斯国王的口信

Cameliard. King Ryence of North Wales is making terrible demands and threatening war. He needs your help." "What demands is Ryence making?" King Arthur asked. "He wants land," the messenger explained. "He also wishes the Lady Guinevere, the king's daughter, to be given into marriage unto Duke Mordaunt of North Umber." The entire court shivered upon hearing this, for all knew Duke Mordaunt to be an ugly man with a violent temper. King Arthur was seized by a great anger. Remembering how Guinevere had come upon him like an angel while he lay wounded in the forest, he swore to help her and her father. The next day, he and Merlin set off for Cameliard, along with the knights, Sirs Gawaine and Ewaine, Pellias and Geraint. When he and Merlin were alone, the king confessed his feelings about the Lady

Cameliard。北威尔士的赖恩斯国王提出了可怕的要求并威胁要发动战争。 他需要你的帮助。”“莱伦斯提出了什么要求？”亚瑟王问。 “他想要土地，”信使解释说。 “他还希望国王的女儿桂尼维尔夫人，嫁给北安伯的莫当特公爵。” 听到这个消息，整个宫廷都打了个寒颤，因为大家都知道莫当特公爵是个脾气暴躁的丑角。 亚瑟王勃然大怒。 当他受伤躺在森林里时，想起桂尼维尔像天使一样来到他身边，他发誓要帮助她和她的父亲。 第二天，他和梅林和骑士们——高文爵士、尤文爵士、佩利亚斯爵士和杰兰特爵士——一起出发去了卡梅利亚德。 当他和梅林单独在一起时，国王吐露了他对这位女士的感情

Guinevere. Arthur asked Merlin to give him a disguise so that he might secretly watch her. He also wished to find out what danger the kingdom was in without being seen. Merlin gave him a cap that, when put on his head, turned the king into a simple country boy. Wearing the cap, that simple country boy was quickly hired to be a gardener at Lady Guinevere's castle. The Lady Guinevere walked in the garden every day, but the only person she ever saw was the newly hired gardener-boy working in the roses. After working so hard, Arthur needed to wash his face in the garden's fountain. The fountain was in a sheltered spot where Arthur thought he could not be seen. He was wrong. Watching him from a castle window was Mellicene of the White Hand, one of Guinevere's attendants. She hadn't seen Arthur take off the cap, but she did see

漂亮宝贝。亚瑟让梅林给他一个伪装，这样他就可以秘密地监视她。 他还想在不被人发现的情况下发现王国的危险。 梅林给了他一顶帽子，当他戴上这顶帽子时，国王就变成了一个单纯的乡下男孩。 戴着这顶帽子，那个淳朴的乡下男孩很快就被聘为桂尼维尔夫人城堡里的园丁。 桂尼维尔夫人每天都在花园里散步，但她唯一见到的人是那个新雇的园丁男孩，他正在种玫瑰。 辛苦工作之后，阿瑟需要在花园的喷泉里洗个脸。 喷泉在一个隐蔽的地方，阿瑟认为他不会被人看见。 他错了。从城堡的窗口望着他的是白掌的梅利塞妮，她是桂尼维尔的侍从之一。 她没有看到阿瑟摘下帽子，但她确实看到了

a handsome knight, wearing a royal golden collar, bathing. Mellicene ran to the garden to investigate, but Arthur heard her approaching and quickly replaced his cap. When she asked the gardener-boy about the knight she had seen at the fountain, Arthur respectfully replied that he had been alone there for the past hour. "You must have been dreaming," he said. Guinevere said the same thing and Mellicene was beginning to think it had been a dream. But a few mornings later she looked out her window and saw the handsome knight at the fountain again. She rushed to wake up Guinevere. Looking out the window with her own sleepy—but not dreaming—eyes, Guinevere saw the knight as well. Quickly dressing, she took Mellicene with her and went down into the garden. This time, the ladies came more quietly.

一个英俊的骑士，戴着皇家金领，沐浴着。 梅莉琳跑到花园去查看，但阿瑟听到她走近，赶紧戴上帽子。 当她向园丁男孩问起她在喷泉边看到的那个骑士时，阿瑟恭敬地回答说，他一个人在那儿待了一个小时。 “你一定是在做梦，”他说。 桂尼维尔也说了同样的话，梅利塞妮开始以为那是一场梦。 但几天后的早晨，她向窗外望去，又看到了喷泉旁那位英俊的骑士。 她冲过去叫醒桂尼维尔。 吉娜薇用困倦而非梦幻的眼睛望着窗外，也看到了骑士。 她迅速穿好衣服，带上媚兰，下楼到花园里去了。 这一次，女士们安静地来了。

Arthur did not hear them until the last minute. Although he had time to replace his magical cap, he realized too late that his golden collar still lay on the grass. When he said that no one but he had visited the fountain for an hour, Guinevere knew it was a lie. "Take that collar," she told him. "Give it back to the knight who dropped it and tell him that it isn't polite for knights to hide themselves in a lady's gardens." With that, she and Mellicene went back into the castle. When Guinevere reached her room, however, a thought came to her. She asked Mellicene to go command the gardener-boy to bring her a basket of roses. When the disguised Arthur entered bearing the roses, all of Guinevere's attendants gasped that he was so rudely still wearing his hat. "I cannot take off my cap," Arthur said, "for…I have an ugly spot on my head."

阿瑟直到最后一刻才听到他们的声音。 虽然他有时间换掉他的魔法帽，但他意识到他的金领仍然躺在草地上，已经太晚了。 当他说只有他一个小时没去过喷泉时，吉娜薇知道这是个谎言。 “拿着那个项圈，”她对他说。 “把它还给掉它的骑士，告诉他骑士躲在一位女士的花园里是不礼貌的。” 说完，她和媚兰就回城堡去了。 然而，当桂尼维尔回到自己的房间时，她突然有了一个念头。 她叫媚兰去吩咐园丁给她拿一篮玫瑰花来。 当乔装打扮的亚瑟拿着玫瑰花进来时，桂尼维尔的所有随从都倒吸了一口气，因为他还粗鲁地戴着帽子。 “我不能摘下帽子，”阿瑟说，“因为……我头上有个难看的斑点。”

Guinevere seemed to accept this explanation, but when Arthur bent down to deliver her roses, she reached out and snatched the cap off, revealing him in all of his golden glory. Nobody present knew that they were in the presence of the great King Arthur, but Guinevere did remember Arthur as that wounded knight she had come upon in the forest. Guinevere was proud and she did not want to swoon over a knight who had lied to her, no matter how handsome he was. She swore that she would protect him and commanded everyone who had witnessed the magic to keep his secret. But for now, she decided, she would put him in his place. "Take thy cap," she told him coldly, "and go back to your roses, gardener-boy." Her ladiesin- waiting giggled. And with that, she dismissed him. Arthur respectfully replaced his cap, bowed humbly, and left.

吉娜薇似乎接受了这个解释，但当亚瑟弯腰给她送玫瑰时，她伸手摘下了帽子，露出了他金色的荣耀。 在场的人都不知道他们正站在伟大的亚瑟王面前，但桂尼维尔却记得亚瑟就是她在森林里遇到的那个受伤的骑士。 吉娜薇很骄傲，她不想为一个对她撒谎的骑士而昏倒，不管他有多英俊。 她发誓要保护他，并命令所有目睹过魔法的人为他保守秘密。 但现在，她决定，她要让他安分守己。 “拿上你的帽子，”她冷冷地对他说，“回去看你的玫瑰花吧，园丁男孩。” 她的侍女咯咯地笑。 说完，她把他打发走了。 阿瑟恭恭敬敬地戴上帽子，谦恭地鞠了一躬，离开了。