<P> Arthur then congratulates the Black Knight and offers him a place at Arthur's court at the Round Table, but the Black Knight only stands still, holding his sword vertically, and makes no response until Arthur moves to cross the bridge . The Black Knight moves slightly to block Arthur and declares "None shall pass". King Arthur, in a conciliatory manner, asserts his right to cross, but the Black Knight says Arthur will die . Arthur orders the Black Knight to move but he says, "I move, for no man". Reluctantly, King Arthur fights the Black Knight and, after a short battle, the Knight's left arm is severed, which squirts out copious amounts of blood . </P> <P> Even at this, the Knight refuses to stand aside, insisting "Tis but a scratch" and that he has "had worse", and fights on while holding his sword with his other arm . Next, his right arm is cut off, but the Knight still does not concede . As the Knight is literally disarmed, Arthur assumes the fight is over and kneels to offer a prayer to God . The Black Knight interrupts Arthur's prayer of thanks by kicking him in the side of the head and accusing him of cowardice . When Arthur points out the Black Knight's injuries, the Knight insists, "Just a flesh wound!" In response to the continued kicks and insults, Arthur chops off the Black Knight's right leg . At this point, the Knight still will not admit defeat, saying, "Right, I'll do you for that", and attempts to ram his body into Arthur's by hopping on his left leg . Arthur is annoyed at the Black Knight's persistence and sarcastically asks the Black Knight if he is going to bleed on him to win . The Black Knight replies by saying "I'm invincible!" to which Arthur retorts "You're a loony ." With an air of resignation, Arthur finally cuts off the left leg as well and sheathes his sword . With the Black Knight now reduced to a mere stump of a man, he says, "All right, we'll call it a draw ." Arthur then summons Patsy and "rides" away, using coconuts to simulate the sound of a horse galloping, leaving the Black Knight's limbless torso screaming threats at him ("Running away, eh? You yellow bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to ya! I'll bite your legs off!"). </P> <P> According to the DVD audio commentary by Cleese, Palin, and Idle, the sequence originated in a story told to Cleese when he was attending an English class during his school days . Two Roman wrestlers were engaged in a particularly intense match and had been fighting for so long that the two combatants were doing little more than leaning into one another . It was only when one wrestler finally tapped out and pulled away from his opponent that he and the crowd realised the other man was, in fact, dead and had effectively won the match posthumously . The moral of the tale, according to Cleese's teacher, was "if you never give up, you can't possibly lose"--a statement that, Cleese reflected, always struck him as being "philosophically unsound". The story would have been a deformed (or misremembered) description of the death of Arrichion of Phigalia . </P> <P> Cleese said that the scene would seem heartless and sadistic except for the fact that the Black Knight shows no pain and just keeps on fighting, or trying to, however badly he is wounded . Also, as the scene progresses and Arthur becomes increasingly annoyed, his dialogue lapses from medieval ("You are indeed brave, Sir Knight, but the fight is mine .") to modern ("Look, you stupid bastard, you've got no arms left!"), and finally to just plain sarcastic ("What are you gonna do, bleed on me?"), while the Black Knight remains just as defiant ("I'm invincible!" he yells with only one leg left, to which Arthur simply replies "You're a loony ."). </P>

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