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Date de parution	27 septembre 2010
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The Well at the World's End
by
William Morris
BOOK ONE The Road Unto Love
Chapter
1
The Sundering of the Ways
2
Ralph Goeth Back Home to the High House
3
Ralph Cometh to the Cheaping-Town
4
Ralph Rideth the Downs
5
Ralph Cometh to Higham-on-the-Way
6
Ralph Goeth His Ways From the Abbey of St. Mary atHigham
7
The Maiden of Bourton Abbas
8
Ralph Cometh to the Wood Perilous. An AdventureTherein
9
Another Adventure in the Wood Perilous
10
A Meeting and a Parting in the Wood Perilous
11
Now Must Ralph Ride For It
12
Ralph Entereth Into the Burg of the Four Friths
13
The Streets of the Burg of the Four Friths
14
What Ralph Heard of the Matters of the Burg of theFour Friths
15
How Ralph Departed From the Burg of the FourFriths
16
Ralph Rideth the Wood Perilous Again
17
Ralph Cometh to the House of Abundance
18
Of Ralph in the Castle of Abundance
19
Ralph Readeth in a Book Concerning the Well at theWorld's End
20
Ralph Meeteth a Man in the Wood
21
Ralph Weareth Away Three Days Uneasily
22
An Adventure in the Wood
23
The Leechcraft of the Lady
24
Supper and Slumber in the Woodland Hall
BOOK TWO The Road Unto Trouble
1
Ralph Meets With Love in the Wilderness
2
They Break Their Fast in the Wildwood
3
The Lady Telleth Ralph of the Past Days of HerLife
4
The Lady Tells of Her Deliverance
5
Yet More of the Lady's Story
6
The Lady Tells Somewhat of Her Doings After She Leftthe Wilderness
7
The Lady Tells of the Strife and Trouble That BefellAfter Her Coming to the Country of the King's Son
8
The Lady Maketh an End of Her Tale
9
They Go On Their Way Once More
10
Of the Desert-House and the Chamber of Love in theWilderness
11
Ralph Cometh Out of the Wilderness
12
Ralph Falleth in With Friends and Rideth toWhitwall
13
Richard Talketh With Ralph Concerning the Well atthe World's End. Concerning Swevenham
14
Ralph Falleth in With Another Old Friend
15
Ralph Dreams a Dream Or Sees a Vision
16
Of the Tales of Swevenham
17
Richard Bringeth Tidings of Departing
18
Ralph Departeth From Whitwall With the Fellowship ofClement Chapman
19
Master Clement Tells Ralph Concerning the LandsWhereunto They Were Riding
20
They Come to the Mid-Mountain Guest-House
21
A Battle in the Mountains
22
Ralph Talks With Bull Shockhead
23
Of the Town of Cheaping Knowe
24
Ralph Heareth More Tidings of the Damsel
25
The Fellowship Comes to Whiteness
26
They Ride the Mountains Toward Goldburg
27
Clement Tells of Goldburg
28
Now They Come to Goldburg
29
Of Goldburg and the Queen Thereof
30
Ralph Hath Hope of Tidings Concerning the Well atthe World's End
31
The Beginning of the Road To Utterbol
32
Ralph Happens on Evil Days
33
Ralph is Brought on the Road Towards Utterbol
34
The Lord of Utterbol Will Wot of Ralph's Might andMinstrelsy
35
Ralph Cometh To the Vale of the Tower
36
The Talk of Two Women Concerning Ralph
37
How Ralph Justed With the Aliens
38
A Friend Gives Ralph Warning
39
The Lord of Utterbol Makes Ralph a Free Man
40
They Ride Toward Utterness From Out of ValeTurris
41
Redhead Keeps Tryst
BOOK THREE The Road To The Well At World'sEnd.
1
An Adventure in the Wood Under the Mountains
2
Ralph Rides the Wood Under the Mountains
3
Ralph Meeteth With Another Adventure in the WoodUnder the Mountain
4
They Ride the Wood Under the Mountains
5
They Come on the Sage of Swevenham
6
Those Two Are Learned Lore by the Sage ofSwevenham
7
An Adventure by the Way
8
They Come to the Sea of Molten Rocks
9
They Come Forth From the Rock-Sea
10
They Come to the Gate of the Mountains
11
They Come to the Vale of Sweet Chestnuts
12
Winter Amidst of the Mountains
13
Of Ursula and the Bear
14
Now Come the Messengers of the Innocent Folk
15
They Come to the Land of the Innocent Folk
16
They Come to the House of the Sorceress
17
They Come Through the Woodland to the ThirstyDesert
18
They Come to the Dry Tree
19
They Come Out of the Thirsty Desert
20
They Come to the Ocean Sea
21
Now They Drink of the Well at the World's End
22
Now They Have Drunk and Are Glad
BOOK FOUR The Road Home
1
Ralph and Ursula Come Back Again Through the GreatMountains
2
They Hear New Tidings of Utterbol
3
They Winter With the Sage; and Thereafter Come Againto Vale Turris
4
A Feast in the Red Pavilion
5
Bull Telleth of His Winning of the Lordship ofUtterbol
6
They Ride From Vale Turris. Redhead Tells ofAgatha
7
Of Their Riding the Waste, and of a BattleThereon
8
Of Goldburg Again, and the Queen Thereof
9
They Come to Cheaping Knowe Once More. Of the KingThereof
10
An Adventure on the Way to the Mountains
11
They Come Through the Mountains Into the Plain
12
The Roads Sunder Again
13
They Come to Whitwall Again
14
They Ride Away From Whitwall
15
A Strange Meeting in the Wilderness
16
They Come to the Castle of Abundance Once More
17
They Fall in With That Hermit
18
A Change of Days in the Burg of the Four Friths
19
Ralph Sees Hampton and the Scaur
20
They Come to the Gate of Higham By the Way
21
Talk Between Those Two Brethren
22
An Old Acquaintance Comes From the Down Country toSee Ralph
23
They Ride to Bear Castle
24
The Folkmote of the Shepherds
25
They Come to Wulstead
26
Ralph Sees His Father and Mother Again
27
Ralph Holds Converse With Katherine His Gossip
28
Dame Katherine Tells of the Pair of Beads, andWhence She Had Them
29
They Go Down to Battle in Upmeads
30
Ralph Brings His Father and Mother to Upmeads
31
Ralph Brings Ursula Home to the High House
32
Yet a Few Words Concerning Ralph of Upmeads
BOOK ONE
The Road Unto Love
CHAPTER 1
The Sundering of the Ways
Long ago there was a little land, over which ruled aregulus or kinglet, who was called King Peter, though his kingdomwas but little. He had four sons whose names were Blaise, Hugh,Gregory and Ralph: of these Ralph was the youngest, whereas he wasbut of twenty winters and one; and Blaise was the oldest and hadseen thirty winters.
Now it came to this at last, that to these young menthe kingdom of their father seemed strait; and they longed to seethe ways of other men, and to strive for life. For though they wereking's sons, they had but little world's wealth; save and exceptgood meat and drink, and enough or too much thereof; house-room ofthe best; friends to be merry with, and maidens to kiss, and thesealso as good as might be; freedom withal to come and go as theywould; the heavens above them, the earth to bear them up, and themeadows and acres, the woods and fair streams, and the little hillsof Upmeads, for that was the name of their country and the kingdomof King Peter.
So having nought but this little they longed formuch; and that the more because, king's sons as they were, they hadbut scant dominion save over their horses and dogs: for the men ofthat country were stubborn and sturdy vavassors, and might not awaywith masterful doings, but were like to pay back a blow with ablow, and a foul word with a buffet. So that, all thingsconsidered, it was little wonder if King Peter's sons foundthemselves straitened in their little land: wherein was no greatmerchant city; no mighty castle, or noble abbey of monks: noughtbut fair little halls of yeomen, with here and there a franklin'scourt or a shield-knight's manor-house; with many a goodly church,and whiles a house of good canons, who knew not the road to Rome,nor how to find the door of the Chancellor's house.
So these young men wearied their father and mother along while with telling them of their weariness, and their longingto be gone: till at last on a fair and hot afternoon of June KingPeter rose up from the carpet which the Prior of St. John's by theBridge had given him (for he had been sleeping thereon amidst thegrass of his orchard after his dinner) and he went into the hall ofhis house, which was called the High House of Upmeads, and sent forhis four sons to come to him. And they came and stood before hishigh-seat and he said:
“Sons, ye have long wearied me with words concerningyour longing for travel on the roads; now if ye verily wish to begone, tell me when would ye take your departure if ye had yourchoice? ”
They looked at one another, and the three youngerones nodded at Blaise the eldest: so he began, and said: “Savingthe love and honour that we have for thee, and also for our mother,we would be gone at once, even with the noon's meat still in ourbellies. But thou art the lord in this land, and thou must rule.Have I said well, brethren? ” And they all said “Yea, yea. ” Thensaid the king; “Good! now is the sun high and hot; yet if ye ridesoftly ye may come to some good harbour before nightfall withoutfoundering your horses. So come ye in an hour's space to theFour-want-way, and there and then will I order your departure.”
The young men were full of joy when they heard hisword; and they departed and went this way and that, gathering suchsmall matters as each deemed that he needed, and which he mightlightly carry with him; then they armed themselves, and would bidthe squires bring them their horses; but men told them that thesaid squires had gone their ways already to the Want-way by theking's commandment: so thither they went at once a-foot all four incompany, laughing and talking together merrily.
It must be told that this Want-way aforesaid was butfour furlongs from the House, which lay in an ingle of the rivercalled Upmeads Water amongst very fair meadows at the end of theupland tillage; and the land sloped gently up toward thehill-country and the unseen mountains on the north; but to thesouth was a low ridge which ran along the water, as it wound alongfrom west to east. Beyond the said