Literary usage of Assotted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and His Noble by Thomas Malory, William Caxton (1901)
"And ever she made Merlin good cheer till she had learned of him all manner thing
that >he desired ; and he was assotted upon her that he might not be from ..."
2. The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table by Thomas Malory, Alfred William Pollard (1917)
"And ever she made Merlin good cheer till she had learned of him all manner thing
that she desired; and he was assotted upon her, that he might not be from ..."
3. Tennyson, His Art and Relation to Modern Life by Stopford Augustus Brooke (1894)
"Merlin there falls into a dotage; he is "assotted" by one of the Ladies of the Lake.
Love in an old man, the most miserable and cruel ..."
4. The Wit and Humor of America by Marshall Pinckney Wilder (1911)
"How- beit, the devil, promising to visit him again that night, departed, leaving
the friar exceeding heavy in spirit, for he was both assotted upon the ..."
5. La Mort D'Arthure: The History of King Arthur and of the Knights of the by Thomas Malory, Thomas Wright (1865)
"And every yeare they were sworne at the high feast of Penticost. CHAP. LX.—How
Merlin was assotted and doted on one of the ladies of the lake, ..."
6. The Coming of Arthur, and Other Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson (1896)
"MERLIN AND VIVIEN. The hint of the story is from Malory (iv. I), who simply tells
how " Merlin was assotted [infatuated] and doted on one of the ladies of ..."
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