So he was for some time, when at length his illness grew more painful. And his people gathered in Logres, because they were distraught over his death, for they saw plainly that he would have to die; and he was so ill and weakened that he could not talk and had not spoken for three days. Then to the town came Merlin, who knew all these things.

And when the gentlemen of the land saw him, they said, “Merlin, now the king has died whom you loved so much.”

And Merlin answered, “You are not saying it right. No one dies who has come to such a good end as he has. In fact, he is not even dead yet.”

Vulgate Merlin