The original text of the first part of the ballad “Kinge: Arthurs Death” as it appears in the Percy Folio Manuscript, and as it appears in Percy's Reliques with the title “The Legend of King Arthur,” is found with the title “The Historieof The/ conquests of the noble conquerour/ Arthvr,” and with the running title “The Historie of King Arthvr,” in the following Elizabethan account of the Nine Worthies:
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