Thomas Malory:
(circa 1405 – 14 March 1471).
Author or compiler of Le Morte d’Arthur, the best and most complete Middle English prose treatment of the story of King Arthur and his knights.
With this adaptation of mostly French romances, Malory was the first English writer to prove that prose could be as delicate a medium as poetry. He is said to have achieved with similar simplicity the same with prose as Geoffrey Chaucer did with poetry. According to poet and antiquarian John Leland, Thomas came from Wales, but others place him in Warwickshire.
Therefore all ye that be lovers call unto your remembrance the month of May.
It was the month of May, the month when lovers, subject to the same force which reawakens the plants, feel their hearts open again, recall past trusts and past vows, and moments of tenderness, and yearn for a renewal of the magical awareness which is love.
The month of May has come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit.
It was the month of May, the month when the foliage of herbs and trees is most freshly green when buds ripened, and blossoms appear in their fragrance and loveliness.
