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IN SPAIN
83
plans, so that it came to nought. If
this were so, it cannot have been the fruit-
less breaking off of the campaign that threw
the Master, afterwards, into the party of
the King’s brother D. Alfonso.
r
There is no reason to seek for personal
motives in these times, nor yet an ideal
shattered; for politics, like religion, con-
stituted a separate sphere, and a man’s
personal honour enjoyed strange exceptions
and reservations.
The realm was infected with policy and
torn by parties and ravaged by such dissen-
sion precisely as that of York and Lan-
caster, as that of Burgundians and Arma-
gnacs, which existed elsewhere in those same
days, in those very years, while the relation
of Aragon to Castile was even more tor-
mented than that of England to France.
Yet these are the years when Sir Thomas
Mallory wrote the Morte d’Arthur and
still in the lifetime of some of these men
Public and
private vir-
tue have no
common
denomina-
tor
1469
AND MONOGRAPHS
83
plans, so that it came to nought. If
this were so, it cannot have been the fruit-
less breaking off of the campaign that threw
the Master, afterwards, into the party of
the King’s brother D. Alfonso.
r
There is no reason to seek for personal
motives in these times, nor yet an ideal
shattered; for politics, like religion, con-
stituted a separate sphere, and a man’s
personal honour enjoyed strange exceptions
and reservations.
The realm was infected with policy and
torn by parties and ravaged by such dissen-
sion precisely as that of York and Lan-
caster, as that of Burgundians and Arma-
gnacs, which existed elsewhere in those same
days, in those very years, while the relation
of Aragon to Castile was even more tor-
mented than that of England to France.
Yet these are the years when Sir Thomas
Mallory wrote the Morte d’Arthur and
still in the lifetime of some of these men
Public and
private vir-
tue have no
common
denomina-
tor
1469
AND MONOGRAPHS