Crossword-Solution: PELLEAS 7 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

But while he gazed The beauty of her flesh abashed the boy, As though it were the beauty of her soul: For as the base man, judging of the good, Puts his own baseness in him by default Of will and nature, so did Pelleas lend All the young beauty of his own soul to hers, Believing her; and when she spake to him, Stammered, and could not make her a reply.

And when they reached Caerleon, ere they past to lodging, she, Taking his hand, “O the strong hand,” she said, “See! look at mine! but wilt thou fight for me, And win me this fine circlet, Pelleas, That I may love thee?” Then his helpless heart Leapt, and he cried, “Ay! wilt thou if I win?” “Ay, that will I,” she answered, and she laughed, And straitly nipt the hand, and flung it from her; Then glanced askew at those three knights of hers, Till all her ladies laughed along with her.

Then Arthur made vast banquets, and strange knights From the four winds came in: and each one sat, Though served with choice from air, land, stream, and sea, Oft in mid-banquet measuring with his eyes His neighbour’s make and might: and Pelleas looked Noble among the noble, for he dreamed His lady loved him, and he knew himself Loved of the King: and him his new-made knight Worshipt, whose lightest whisper moved him more Than all the ranged reasons of the world.

Then blushed and brake the morning of the jousts, And this was called “The Tournament of Youth:” For Arthur, loving his young knight, withheld His older and his mightier from the lists, That Pelleas might obtain his lady’s love, According to her promise, and remain Lord of the tourney.

There all day long Sir Pelleas kept the field With honour: so by that strong hand of his The sword and golden circlet were achieved.