Such a fellowship of good knights shall never be together in no company.

This line is associated with Sir Thomas Malory’s late-15th-century Arthurian compilation, *Le Morte Darthur* (completed c. 1469–1470; first printed by William Caxton in 1485). It is spoken in the elegiac, retrospective mode that frames the collapse of Arthur’s Round Table: as the fellowship fractures through internal rivalries, adultery accusations, and civil war, characters look back on the Round Table as an unsurpassable ideal of chivalric community. The sentiment functions as a lament for a lost “golden age” of knighthood, emphasizing that the particular convergence of virtue, prowess, and comradeship embodied by Arthur’s company will not be repeated.

The quote expresses a superlative claim about the Round Table: not merely that its knights were excellent individually, but that their collective fellowship—mutual loyalty, shared ideals, and communal honor—was unique in history. Malory’s phrasing underscores the poignancy of irrecoverable loss: the very greatness of the company heightens the tragedy of its dissolution. Read within the work’s larger arc, the line also questions the durability of chivalric ideals; the “best” fellowship proves vulnerable to human frailty, political pressures, and conflicting codes of love and loyalty. It thus serves both as praise of chivalry and as an epitaph for it.