Stanza 7

{Honoured, for ever honoured be the page, } {Prized be the Book, and honoured the Page,} When England's Darling found a basis laid To those dread scenes which on the tragic stage To trembling multitudes his art displayed; And to {that chronicle } be praise decreed {the same for this} That there men first did read Of Merlin's insight into future years, And all the mighty feats of Arthur and his peers.