Index for Le Morte d'Arthur Volume 1 by Sir Thomas Malory
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"Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1" by Sir Thomas Malory is a historical account written in the late 15th century. The narrative explores the legendary romances of King Arthur and his noble Knights of the Round Table, detailing their adventures, battles, and code of chivalry. Central figures include King Arthur, Merlin the wizard, and Uther Pendragon, as the book delves into themes of honor, loyalty, and the consequences of desires. The opening of the book introduces the backstory of Uther Pendragon, who falls in love with Igraine, the wife of the Duke of Cornwall. After a series of events fueled by desire and deception, King Arthur is conceived through a manipulation orchestrated by Merlin. The narrative unfolds with Uther's death and the subsequent turmoil as various nobles vie for power, ultimately leading to Arthur's miraculous acquisition of Excalibur and his acceptance as King. Through a series of battles and tournaments, the groundwork is laid for King Arthur's future as a just and noble ruler, facing opposition as he strives to unite the realm. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
PREFACE OF WILLIAM CAXTON
BOOK I.
CHAPTER II.How Uther Pendragon made war on the
duke of Cornwall, and how by the mean of Merlin he lay by the duchess and gat
Arthur.
CHAPTER III.Of the birth of King Arthur and of
his nurture.
CHAPTER IV.Of the death of King Uther
Pendragon.
CHAPTER V.How Arthur was chosen king, and of
wonders and marvels of a sword taken out of a stone by the said Arthur.
CHAPTER VI.How King Arthur pulled out the sword
divers times.
CHAPTER VII.How King Arthur was crowned, and how
he made officers.
CHAPTER VIII.How King Arthur held in Wales, at a
Pentecost, a great feast, and what kings and lords came to his feast.
CHAPTER IX.Of the first war that King Arthur had,
and how he won the field.
CHAPTER X.How Merlin counselled King Arthur to
send for King Ban and King Bors, and of their counsel taken for the war.
CHAPTER XI.Of a great tourney made by King Arthur
and the two kings Ban and Bors, and how they went over the sea.
CHAPTER XII.How eleven kings gathered a great
host against King Arthur.
CHAPTER XIII.Of a dream of the King with the
Hundred Knights.
CHAPTER XIV.How the eleven kings with their host
fought against Arthur and his host, and many great feats of the war.
CHAPTER XV.Yet of the same battle.
CHAPTER XVI.Yet more of the same battle.
CHAPTER XVII.Yet more of the same battle, and how
it was ended by Merlin.
CHAPTER XVIII.How King Arthur, King Ban, and King
Bors rescued King Leodegrance, and other incidents.
CHAPTER XIX.How King Arthur rode to Carlion, and
of his dream, and how he saw the questing beast.
CHAPTER XX.How King Pellinore took Arthur’s
horse and followed the Questing Beast, and how Merlin met with Arthur.
CHAPTER XXI.How Ulfius impeached Queen Igraine,
Arthur’s mother, of treason; and how a knight came and desired to have
the death of his master revenged.
CHAPTER XXII.How Griflet was made knight, and
jousted with a knight.
CHAPTER XXIII.How twelve knights came from Rome
and asked truage for this land of Arthur, and how Arthur fought with a
knight.
CHAPTER XXIV.How Merlin saved Arthur’s
life, and threw an enchantment on King Pellinore and made him to sleep.
CHAPTER XXV.How Arthur by the mean of Merlin gat
Excalibur his sword of the Lady of the Lake.
CHAPTER XXVI.How tidings came to Arthur that King
Rience had overcome eleven kings, and how he desired Arthur’s beard to
trim his mantle.
CHAPTER XXVII.How all the children were sent for
that were born on May-day, and how Mordred was saved.
BOOK II.
CHAPTER II.How Balin, arrayed like a poor knight,
pulled out the sword, which afterward was the cause of his death.
CHAPTER III.How the Lady of the Lake demanded the
knight’s head that had won the sword, or the maiden’s head.
CHAPTER IV.How Merlin told the adventure of this
damosel.
CHAPTER V.How Balin was pursued by Sir Lanceor,
knight of Ireland, and how he jousted and slew him.
CHAPTER VI.How a damosel, which was love to
Lanceor, slew herself for love, and how Balin met with his brother Balan.
CHAPTER VII.How a dwarf reproved Balin for the
death of Lanceor, and how King Mark of Cornwall found them, and made a tomb
over them.
CHAPTER VIII.How Merlin prophesied that two the
best knights of the world should fight there, which were Sir Lancelot and Sir
Tristram.
CHAPTER IX.How Balin and his brother, by the
counsel of Merlin, took King Rience and brought him to King Arthur.
CHAPTER X.How King Arthur had a battle against
Nero and King Lot of Orkney, and how King Lot was deceived by Merlin, and how
twelve kings were slain.
CHAPTER XI.Of the interment of twelve kings, and
of the prophecy of Merlin, and how Balin should give the dolorous stroke.
CHAPTER XII.How a sorrowful knight came before
Arthur, and how Balin fetched him, and how that knight was slain by a knight
invisible.
CHAPTER XIII.How Balin and the damosel met with a
knight which was in likewise slain, and how the damosel bled for the custom of
a castle.
CHAPTER XIV.How Balin met with that knight named
Garlon at a feast, and there he slew him, to have his blood to heal therewith
the son of his host.
CHAPTER XV.How Balin fought with King Pellam, and
how his sword brake, and how he gat a spear wherewith he smote the dolorous
stroke.
CHAPTER XVI.How Balin was delivered by Merlin,
and saved a knight that would have slain himself for love.
CHAPTER XVII.How that knight slew his love and a
knight lying by her, and after, how he slew himself with his own sword, and how
Balin rode toward a castle where he lost his life.
CHAPTER XVIII.How Balin met with his brother
Balan, and how each of them slew other unknown, till they were wounded to
death.
CHAPTER XIX.How Merlin buried them both in one
tomb, and of Balin’s sword.
BOOK III.
CHAPTER II.How the Knights of the Round Table
were ordained and their sieges blessed by the Bishop of Canterbury.
CHAPTER III.How a poor man riding upon a lean
mare desired King Arthur to make his son knight.
CHAPTER IV.How Sir Tor was known for son of King
Pellinore, and how Gawaine was made knight.
CHAPTER V.How at feast of the wedding of King
Arthur to Guenever, a white hart came into the hall, and thirty couple hounds,
and how a brachet pinched the hart which was taken away.
CHAPTER VI.How Sir Gawaine rode for to fetch
again the hart, and how two brethren fought each against other for the
hart.
CHAPTER VIIHow the hart was chased into a castle
and there slain, and how Sir Gawaine slew a lady.
CHAPTER VIII.How four knights fought against
Gawaine and Gaheris, and how they were overcome, and their lives saved at
request of four ladies.
CHAPTER IX.How Sir Tor rode after the knight with
the brachet, and of his adventure by the way.
CHAPTER X.How Sir Tor found the brachet with a
lady, and how a knight assailed him for the said brachet.
CHAPTER XI.How Sir Tor overcame the knight, and
how he lost his head at the request of a lady.
CHAPTER XII.How King Pellinore rode after the
lady and the knight that led her away, and how a lady desired help of him, and
how he fought with two knights for that lady, of whom he slew the one at the
first stroke.
CHAPTER XIII.How King Pellinore gat the lady and
brought her to Camelot to the court of King Arthur.
CHAPTER XIV.How on the way he heard two knights,
as he lay by night in a valley, and of their adventures.
CHAPTER XV.How when he was come to Camelot he was
sworn upon a book to tell the truth of his quest.
BOOK IV.
CHAPTER II.How five kings came into this land to
war against King Arthur, and what counsel Arthur had against them.
CHAPTER III.How King Arthur had ado with them and
overthrew them, and slew the five kings and made the remnant to flee.
CHAPTER IV.How the battle was finished or he
came, and how King Arthur founded an abbey where the battle was.
CHAPTER V.How Sir Tor was made knight of the
Round Table, and how Bagdemagus was displeased.
CHAPTER VI.How King Arthur, King Uriens, and Sir
Accolon of Gaul, chased an hart, and of their marvellous adventures.
CHAPTER VII.How Arthur took upon him to fight to
be delivered out of prison, and also for to deliver twenty knights that were in
prison.
CHAPTER VIII.How Accolon found himself by a well,
and he took upon him to do battle against Arthur.
CHAPTER IX.Of the battle between King Arthur and
Accolon.
CHAPTER X.How King Arthur’s sword that he
fought with brake, and how he recovered of Accolon his own sword Excalibur, and
overcame his enemy.
CHAPTER XI.How Accolon confessed the treason of
Morgan le Fay, King Arthur’s sister, and how she would have done slay
him.
CHAPTER XII.How Arthur accorded the two brethren,
and delivered the twenty knights, and how Sir Accolon died.
CHAPTER XIII.How Morgan would have slain Sir
Uriens her husband, and how Sir Uwaine her son saved him.
CHAPTER XIV.How Queen Morgan le Fay made great
sorrow for the death of Accolon, and how she stole away the scabbard from
Arthur.
CHAPTER XV.How Morgan le Fay saved a knight that
should have been drowned, and how King Arthur returned home again.
CHAPTER XVI.How the Damosel of the Lake saved
King Arthur from mantle that should have burnt him.
CHAPTER XVII.How Sir Gawaine and Sir Uwaine met
with twelve fair damosels, and how they complained on Sir Marhaus.
CHAPTER XVIII.How Sir Marhaus jousted with Sir
Gawaine and Sir Uwaine, and overthrew them both.
CHAPTER XIX.How Sir Marhaus, Sir Gawaine, and Sir
Uwaine met three damosels, and each of them took one.
CHAPTER XX.How a knight and a dwarf strove for a
lady.
CHAPTER XXI.How King Pelleas suffered himself to
be taken prisoner because he would have a sight of his lady, and how Sir
Gawaine promised him to get to him the love of his lady.
CHAPTER XXII.How Sir Gawaine came to the Lady
Ettard, and how Sir Pelleas found them sleeping.
CHAPTER XXIII.How Sir Pelleas loved no more
Ettard by means of the Damosel of the Lake, whom he loved ever after.
CHAPTER XXIV.How Sir Marhaus rode with the
damosel, and how he came to the Duke of the South Marches.
CHAPTER XXV.How Sir Marhaus fought with the duke
and his four sons and made them to yield them.
CHAPTER XXVI.How Sir Uwaine rode with the damosel
of sixty year of age, and how he gat the prize at tourneying.
CHAPTER XXVII.How Sir Uwaine fought with two
knights and overcame them.
CHAPTER XXVIII.How at the year’s end all
three knights with their three damosels met at the fountain.
BOOK V.
CHAPTER II.How the kings and lords promised to
King Arthur aid and help against the Romans.
CHAPTER III.How King Arthur held a parliament at
York, and how he ordained the realm should be governed in his absence.
CHAPTER IV.How King Arthur being shipped and
lying in his cabin had a marvellous dream and of the exposition thereof.
CHAPTER V.How a man of the country told to him of
a marvellous giant, and how he fought and conquered him.
CHAPTER VI.How King Arthur sent Sir Gawaine and
other to Lucius, and how they were assailed and escaped with worship.
CHAPTER VII.How Lucius sent certain spies in a
bushment for to have taken his knights being prisoners, and how they were
letted.
CHAPTER VIII.How a senator told to Lucius of
their discomfiture, and also of the great battle between Arthur and
Lucius.
CHAPTER IX.How Arthur, after he had achieved the
battle against the Romans, entered into Almaine, and so into Italy.
CHAPTER X.Of a battle done by Sir Gawaine against
a Saracen, which after was yielden and became Christian.
CHAPTER XI.How the Saracens came out of a wood
for to rescue their beasts, and of a great battle.
CHAPTER XII.How Sir Gawaine returned to King
Arthur with his prisoners, and how the King won a city, and how he was crowned
Emperor.
BOOK VI.
CHAPTER II.How Sir Ector followed for to seek
Sir Launcelot, and how he was taken by Sir Turquine.
CHAPTER III.How four queens found Launcelot
sleeping, and how by enchantment he was taken and led into a castle.
CHAPTER IV.How Sir Launcelot was delivered by
the mean of a damosel.
CHAPTER V.How a knight found Sir Launcelot lying
in his leman’s bed, and how Sir Launcelot fought with the knight.
CHAPTER VI.How Sir Launcelot was received of
King Bagdemagus’ daughter, and how he made his complaint to her
father.
CHAPTER VII.How Sir Launcelot behaved him in a
tournament, and how he met with Sir Turquine leading Sir Gaheris.
CHAPTER VIII.How Sir Launcelot and Sir Turquine
fought together.
CHAPTER IX.How Sir Turquine was slain, and how
Sir Launcelot bade Sir Gaheris deliver all the prisoners.
CHAPTER X.How Sir Launcelot rode with a damosel
and slew a knight that distressed all ladies and also a villain that kept a
bridge.
CHAPTER XI.How Sir Launcelot slew two giants,
and made a castle free.
CHAPTER XII.How Sir Launcelot rode disguised in
Sir Kay’s harness, and how he smote down a knight.
CHAPTER XIII.How Sir Launcelot jousted against
four knights of the Round Table and overthrew them.
CHAPTER XIV.How Sir Launcelot followed a brachet
into a castle, where he found a dead knight, and how he after was required of a
damosel to heal her brother.
CHAPTER XV.How Sir Launcelot came into the
Chapel Perilous and gat there of a dead corpse a piece of the cloth and a
sword.
CHAPTER XVI.How Sir Launcelot at the request of
a lady recovered a falcon, by which he was deceived.
CHAPTER XVII.How Sir Launcelot overtook a knight
which chased his wife to have slain her, and how he said to him.
CHAPTER XVIII.How Sir Launcelot came to King
Arthur’s Court, and how there were recounted all his noble feats and
acts.
BOOK VII.
CHAPTER II.How Sir Launcelot and Sir Gawaine
were wroth because Sir Kay mocked Beaumains, and of a damosel which desired a
knight to fight for a lady.
CHAPTER III.How Beaumains desired the battle,
and how it was granted to him, and how he desired to be made knight of Sir
Launcelot.
CHAPTER IV.How Beaumains departed, and how he
gat of Sir Kay a spear and a shield, and how he jousted with Sir
Launcelot.
CHAPTER V.How Beaumains told to Sir Launcelot
his name, and how he was dubbed knight of Sir Launcelot, and after overtook the
damosel.
CHAPTER VI.How Beaumains fought and slew two
knights at a passage.
CHAPTER VII.How Beaumains fought with the Knight
of the Black Launds, and fought with him till he fell down and died.
CHAPTER VIII.How the brother of the knight that
was slain met with Beaumains, and fought with Beaumains till he was
yielden.
CHAPTER IX.How the damosel again rebuked
Beaumains, and would not suffer him to sit at her table, but called him kitchen
boy.
CHAPTER X.How the third brother, called the Red
Knight, jousted and fought against Beaumains, and how Beaumains overcame
him.
CHAPTER XI.How Sir Beaumains suffered great
rebukes of the damosel, and he suffered it patiently.
CHAPTER XII.How Beaumains fought with Sir
Persant of Inde, and made him to be yielden.
CHAPTER XIII.Of the goodly communication between
Sir Persant and Beaumains, and how he told him that his name was Sir
Gareth.
CHAPTER XIV.How the lady that was besieged had
word from her sister how she had brought a knight to fight for her, and what
battles he had achieved.
CHAPTER XV.How the damosel and Beaumains came to
the siege; and came to a sycamore tree, and there Beaumains blew a horn, and
then the Knight of the Red Launds came to fight with him.
CHAPTER XVI.How the two knights met together,
and of their talking, and how they began their battle.
CHAPTER XVII.How after long fighting Beaumains
overcame the knight and would have slain him, but at the request of the lords
he saved his life, and made him to yield him to the lady.
CHAPTER XVIII.How the knight yielded him, and
how Beaumains made him to go unto King Arthur’s court, and to cry Sir
Launcelot mercy.
CHAPTER XIX.How Beaumains came to the lady, and
when he came to the castle the gates were closed against him, and of the words
that the lady said to him.
CHAPTER XX.How Sir Beaumains rode after to
rescue his dwarf, and came into the castle where he was.
CHAPTER XXI.How Sir Gareth, otherwise called
Beaumains, came to the presence of his lady, and how they took acquaintance,
and of their love.
CHAPTER XXII.How at night came an armed knight,
and fought with Sir Gareth, and he, sore hurt in the thigh, smote off the
knight’s head.
CHAPTER XXIII.How the said knight came again the
next night and was beheaded again, and how at the feast of Pentecost all the
knights that Sir Gareth had overcome came and yielded them to King Arthur.
CHAPTER XXIV.How King Arthur pardoned them, and
demanded of them where Sir Gareth was.
CHAPTER XXV.How the Queen of Orkney came to this
feast of Pentecost, and Sir Gawaine and his brethren came to ask her blessing.
CHAPTER XXVI.How King Arthur sent for the Lady
Lionesse, and how she let cry a tourney at her castle, whereas came many
knights.
CHAPTER XXVII.How King Arthur went to the
tournament with his knights, and how the lady received him worshipfully, and
how the knights encountered.
CHAPTER XXVIII.How the knights bare them in the
battle.
CHAPTER XXIX.Yet of the said tournament.
CHAPTER XXX.How Sir Gareth was espied by the
heralds, and how he escaped out of the field.
CHAPTER XXXI.How Sir Gareth came to a castle
where he was well lodged, and he jousted with a knight and slew him.
CHAPTER XXXII.How Sir Gareth fought with a
knight that held within his castle thirty ladies, and how he slew him.
CHAPTER XXXIII.How Sir Gareth and Sir Gawaine
fought each against other, and how they knew each other by the damosel
Linet.
CHAPTER XXXIV.How Sir Gareth acknowledged that
they loved each other to King Arthur, and of the appointment of their
wedding.
CHAPTER XXXV.Of the Great Royalty, and what
officers were made at the feast of the wedding, and of the jousts at the
feast.
BOOK VIII.
CHAPTER II.How the stepmother of Sir Tristram
had ordained poison for to have poisoned Sir Tristram.
CHAPTER III.How Sir Tristram was sent into
France, and had one to govern him named Gouvernail, and how he learned to harp,
hawk, and hunt.
CHAPTER IV.How Sir Marhaus came out of Ireland
for to ask truage of Cornwall, or else he would fight therefore.
CHAPTER V.How Tristram enterprized the battle to
fight for the truage of Cornwall, and how he was made knight.
CHAPTER VI.How Sir Tristram arrived into the
Island for to furnish the battle with Sir Marhaus.
CHAPTER VII.How Sir Tristram fought against Sir
Marhaus and achieved his battle, and how Sir Marhaus fled to his ship.
CHAPTER VIII.How Sir Marhaus after that he was
arrived in Ireland died of the stroke that Sir Tristram had given him, and how
Tristram was hurt.
CHAPTER IX.How Sir Tristram was put to the
keeping of La Beale Isoud first for to be healed of his wound.
CHAPTER X.How Sir Tristram won the degree at a
tournament in Ireland, and there made Palamides to bear no more harness in a
year.
CHAPTER XI.How the queen espied that Sir
Tristram had slain her brother Sir Marhaus by his sword, and in what jeopardy
he was.
CHAPTER XII.How Sir Tristram departed from the
king and La Beale Isoud out of Ireland for to come into Cornwall.
CHAPTER XIII.How Sir Tristram and King Mark
hurted each other for the love of a knight’s wife.
CHAPTER XIV.How Sir Tristram lay with the lady,
and how her husband fought with Sir Tristram.
CHAPTER XV.How Sir Bleoberis demanded the
fairest lady in King Mark’s court, whom he took away, and how he was
fought with.
CHAPTER XVI.How Sir Tristram fought with two
knights of the Round Table.
CHAPTER XVII.How Sir Tristram fought with Sir
Bleoberis for a lady, and how the lady was put to choice to whom she would
go.
CHAPTER XVIII.How the lady forsook Sir Tristram
and abode with Sir Bleoberis, and how she desired to go to her husband.
CHAPTER XIX.How King Mark sent Sir Tristram for
La Beale Isoud toward Ireland, and how by fortune he arrived into England.
CHAPTER XX.How King Anguish of Ireland was
summoned to come to King Arthur’s court for treason.
CHAPTER XXI.How Sir Tristram rescued a child
from a knight, and how Gouvernail told him of King Anguish.
CHAPTER XXII.How Sir Tristram fought for Sir
Anguish and overcame his adversary, and how his adversary would never yield
him.
CHAPTER XXIII.How Sir Blamore desired Tristram
to slay him, and how Sir Tristram spared him, and how they took
appointment.
CHAPTER XXIV.How Sir Tristram demanded La Beale
Isoud for King Mark, and how Sir Tristram and Isoud drank the love drink.
CHAPTER XXV.How Sir Tristram and Isoud were in
prison, and how he fought for her beauty, and smote off another lady’s
head.
CHAPTER XXVI.How Sir Tristram fought with Sir
Breunor, and at the last smote off his head.
CHAPTER XXVII.How Sir Galahad fought with Sir
Tristram, and how Sir Tristram yielded him and promised to fellowship with
Launcelot.
CHAPTER XXVIII.How Sir Launcelot met with Sir
Carados bearing away Sir Gawaine, and of the rescue of Sir Gawaine.
CHAPTER XXIX.Of the wedding of King Mark to La
Beale Isoud, and of Bragwaine her maid, and of Palamides.
CHAPTER XXX.How Palamides demanded Queen Isoud,
and how Lambegus rode after to rescue her, and of the escape of Isoud.
CHAPTER XXXI.How Sir Tristram rode after
Palamides, and how he found him and fought with him, and by the means of Isoud
the battle ceased.
CHAPTER XXXII.How Sir Tristram brought Queen
Isoud home, and of the debate of King Mark and Sir Tristram.
CHAPTER XXXIII.How Sir Lamorak jousted with
thirty knights, and Sir Tristram at the request of King Mark smote his horse
down.
CHAPTER XXXIV.How Sir Lamorak sent an horn to
King Mark in despite of Sir Tristram, and how Sir Tristram was driven into a
chapel.
CHAPTER XXXV.How Sir Tristram was holpen by his
men, and of Queen Isoud which was put in a lazar-cote, and how Tristram was
hurt.
CHAPTER XXXVI.How Sir Tristram served in war
King Howel of Brittany, and slew his adversary in the field.
CHAPTER XXXVII.How Sir Suppinabiles told Sir
Tristram how he was defamed in the court of King Arthur, and of Sir
Lamorak.
CHAPTER XXXVIII.How Sir Tristram and his wife
arrived in Wales, and how he met there with Sir Lamorak.
CHAPTER XXXIX.How Sir Tristram fought with Sir
Nabon, and overcame him, and made Sir Segwarides lord of the isle.
CHAPTER XL.How Sir Lamorak departed from Sir
Tristram, and how he met with Sir Frol, and after with Sir Launcelot.
CHAPTER XLI.How Sir Lamorak slew Sir Frol, and
of the courteous fighting with Sir Belliance his brother.
BOOK IX.
CHAPTER II.How a damosel came into the court and
desired a knight to take on him an enquest, which La Cote Male Taile
emprised.
CHAPTER III.How La Cote Male Taile overthrew Sir
Dagonet the king’s fool, and of the rebuke that he had of the
damosel.
CHAPTER IV.How La Cote Male Taile fought against
an hundred knights, and how he escaped by the mean of a lady.
CHAPTER V.How Sir Launcelot came to the court
and heard of La Cote Male Taile, and how he followed after him, and how La Cote
Male Taile was prisoner.
CHAPTER VI.How Sir Launcelot fought with six
knights, and after with Sir Brian, and how he delivered the prisoners.
CHAPTER VII.How Sir Launcelot met with the
damosel named Male disant, and named her the Damosel Bienpensant.
CHAPTER VIII.How La Cote Male Taile was taken
prisoner, and after rescued by Sir Launcelot, and how Sir Launcelot overcame
four brethren.
CHAPTER IX.How Sir Launcelot made La Cote Male
Taile lord of the Castle of Pendragon, and after was made knight of the Round
Table.
CHAPTER X.How La Beale Isoud sent letters to Sir
Tristram by her maid Bragwaine, and of divers adventures of Sir Tristram.
CHAPTER XI.How Sir Tristram met with Sir Lamorak
de Galis, and how they fought, and after accorded never to fight together.
CHAPTER XII.How Sir Palomides followed the
Questing Beast, and smote down Sir Tristram and Sir Lamorak with one
spear.
CHAPTER XIII.How Sir Lamorak met with Sir
Meliagaunce, and fought together for the beauty of Dame Guenever.
CHAPTER XIV.How Sir Kay met with Sir Tristram,
and after of the shame spoken of the knights of Cornwall, and how they
jousted.
CHAPTER XV.How King Arthur was brought into the
Forest Perilous, and how Sir Tristram saved his life.
CHAPTER XVI.How Sir Tristram came to La Beale
Isoud, and how Kehydius began to love Beale Isoud, and of a letter that
Tristram found.
CHAPTER XVII.How Sir Tristram departed from
Tintagil, and how he sorrowed and was so long in a forest till he was out of
his mind.
CHAPTER XVIII.How Sir Tristram soused Dagonet in a
well, and how Palomides sent a damosel to seek Tristram, and how Palomides met
with King Mark.
CHAPTER XIX.How it was noised how Sir Tristram
was dead, and how La Beale Isoud would have slain herself.
CHAPTER XX.How King Mark found Sir Tristram
naked, and made him to be borne home to Tintagil, and how he was there known by
a brachet.
CHAPTER XXI.How King Mark, by the advice of his
council, banished Sir Tristram out of Cornwall the term of ten years.
CHAPTER XXII.How a damosel sought help to help
Sir Launcelot against thirty knights, and how Sir Tristram fought with
them.
CHAPTER XXIII.How Sir Tristram and Sir Dinadan
came to a lodging where they must joust with two knights.
CHAPTER XXIV.How Sir Tristram jousted with Sir
Kay and Sir Sagramore le Desirous, and how Sir Gawaine turned Sir Tristram from
Morgan le Fay.
CHAPTER XXV.How Sir Tristram and Sir Gawaine
rode to have foughten with the thirty knights, but they durst not come
out.
CHAPTER XXVI.How damosel Bragwaine found
Tristram sleeping by a well, and how she delivered letters to him from La Beale
Isoud.
CHAPTER XXVII.How Sir Tristram had a fall with
Sir Palomides, and how Launcelot overthrew two knights.
CHAPTER XXVIII.How Sir Launcelot jousted with
Palomides and overthrew him, and after he was assailed with twelve
knights.
CHAPTER XXIX.How Sir Tristram behaved him the
first day of the tournament, and there he had the prize.
CHAPTER XXX.How Sir Tristram returned against
King Arthur’s party because he saw Sir Palomides on that party.
CHAPTER XXXI.How Sir Tristram found Palomides
by a well, and brought him with him to his lodging.
CHAPTER XXXII.How Sir Tristram smote down Sir
Palomides, and how he jousted with King Arthur, and other feats.
CHAPTER XXXIII.How Sir Launcelot hurt Sir
Tristram, and how after Sir Tristram smote down Sir Palomides.
CHAPTER XXXIV.How the prize of the third day was
given to Sir Launcelot, and Sir Launcelot gave it to Sir Tristram.
CHAPTER XXXV.How Palomides came to the castle
where Sir Tristram was, and of the quest that Sir Launcelot and ten knights
made for Sir Tristram.
CHAPTER XXXVI.How Sir Tristram, Sir Palomides,
and Sir Dinadan were taken and put in prison.
CHAPTER XXXVII.How King Mark was sorry for the
good renown of Sir Tristram. Some of King Arthur’s knights jousted with
knights of Cornwall.
CHAPTER XXXVIII.Of the treason of King Mark, and
how Sir Gaheris smote him down and Andred his cousin.
CHAPTER XXXIX.How after that Sir Tristram, Sir
Palomides, and Sir Dinadan had been long in prison they were delivered.
CHAPTER XL.How Sir Dinadan rescued a lady from
Sir Breuse Saunce Pité, and how Sir Tristram received a shield of Morgan le
Fay.
CHAPTER XLI.How Sir Tristram took with him the
shield, and also how he slew the paramour of Morgan le Fay.
CHAPTER XLII.How Morgan le Fay buried her
paramour, and how Sir Tristram praised Sir Launcelot and his kin.
CHAPTER XLIII.How Sir Tristram at a tournament
bare the shield that Morgan le Fay delivered to him.
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