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Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1

by Thomas Malory (?–1471)

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"Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1" by Sir Thomas Malory is a prose compilation completed around 1470. This Middle English work weaves together tales of the legendary King Arthur, from his conception to his death. It chronicles Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Table, including their quest for the Holy Grail and the legend of Tristan and Iseult. Written apparently in prison, Malory rearranged and modified French and English sources to create a complete Arthurian saga that became one of literature's most influential retellings of the legend.

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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.

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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

The Morte D’Arthur was finished, as the epilogue tells us, in the ninth year of Edward IV., i.e. between March 4, 1469 and the same date in 1470. It is thus, fitly enough, the last important English book written before the introduction of printing into this country, and since no manuscript of it has come down to us it is also the first English classic for our knowledge of which we are entirely dependent on a printed text. Caxton’s story of how the book was brought to him and he was induced to print it may be read farther on in his own preface. From this we learn also that he was not only the printer of the book, but to some extent its editor also, dividing Malory’s work into twenty-one books, splitting up the books into chapters, by no means skilfully, and supplying the “Rubrish” or chapter-headings. It may be added that Caxton’s preface contains, moreover, a brief criticism which, on the points on which it touches, is still the soundest and most sympathetic that has been written.

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  1. Chapter XI: How Sir Tor overcame the knight, and how he lost his head: at the request of a lady
  2. Book I
  3. Chapter I: First, How Uther Pendragon sent for the duke of Cornwall and: Igraine his wife, and of their departing suddenly again
  4. 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
  5. Chapter III: Of the birth of King Arthur and of his nurture
  6. Chapter IV: Of the death of King Uther Pendragon
  7. Chapter V: How Arthur was chosen king, and of wonders and marvels of a: sword taken out of a stone by the said Arthur
  8. Chapter VI: How King Arthur pulled out the sword divers times
  9. Chapter VII: How King Arthur was crowned, and how he made officers
  10. Chapter VIII: How King Arthur held in Wales, at a Pentecost, a great: feast, and what kings and lords came to his feast
  11. Chapter IX: Of the first war that King Arthur had, and how he won the: field
  12. Chapter X: How Merlin counselled King Arthur to send for King Ban and: King Bors, and of their counsel taken for the war
  13. Chapter XI: Of a great tourney made by King Arthur and the two kings: Ban and Bors, and how they went over the sea
  14. Chapter XII: How eleven kings gathered a great host against King: Arthur
  15. Chapter XIII: Of a dream of the King with the Hundred Knights
  16. Chapter XIV: How the eleven kings with their host fought against Arthur: and his host, and many great feats of the war
  17. Chapter XV: Yet of the same battle
  18. Chapter XVI: Yet more of the same battle
  19. Chapter XVII: Yet more of the same battle, and how it was ended by: Merlin
  20. Chapter XVIII: How King Arthur, King Ban, and King Bors rescued King: Leodegrance, and other incidents
  21. Chapter XIX: How King Arthur rode to Carlion, and of his dream, and how: he saw the questing beast
  22. Chapter XX: How King Pellinore took Arthur’s horse and followed the: Questing Beast, and how Merlin met with Arthur
  23. 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
  24. Chapter XXII: How Griflet was made knight, and jousted with a knight
  25. Chapter XXIII: How twelve knights came from Rome and asked truage for: this land of Arthur, and how Arthur fought with a knight
  26. Chapter XXIV: How Merlin saved Arthur’s life, and threw an enchantment: on King Pellinore and made him to sleep
  27. Chapter XXV: How Arthur by the mean of Merlin gat Excalibur his sword: of the Lady of the Lake
  28. 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
  29. Chapter XXVII: How all the children were sent for that were born on: May-day, and how Mordred was saved
  30. Book II
  31. Chapter I: Of a damosel which came girt with a sword for to find a man: of such virtue to draw it out of the scabbard
  32. Chapter II: How Balin, arrayed like a poor knight, pulled out the: sword, which afterward was the cause of his death
  33. Chapter III: How the Lady of the Lake demanded the knight’s head that: had won the sword, or the maiden’s head
  34. Chapter IV: How Merlin told the adventure of this damosel
  35. Chapter V: How Balin was pursued by Sir Lanceor, knight of Ireland, and: how he jousted and slew him
  36. Chapter VI: How a damosel, which was love to Lanceor, slew herself for: love, and how Balin met with his brother Balan
  37. 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
  38. Chapter VIII: How Merlin prophesied that two the best knights of the: world should fight there, which were Sir Lancelot and Sir Tristram
  39. Chapter IX: How Balin and his brother, by the counsel of Merlin, took: King Rience and brought him to King Arthur
  40. 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
  41. Chapter XI: Of the interment of twelve kings, and of the prophecy of: Merlin, and how Balin should give the dolorous stroke
  42. Chapter XII: How a sorrowful knight came before Arthur, and how Balin: fetched him, and how that knight was slain by a knight invisible
  43. 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
  44. 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
  45. 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
  46. Chapter XVI: How Balin was delivered by Merlin, and saved a knight that: would have slain himself for love
  47. 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
  48. Chapter XVIII: How Balin met with his brother Balan, and how each of: them slew other unknown, till they were wounded to death
  49. Chapter XIX: How Merlin buried them both in one tomb, and of Balin’s: sword
  50. Book III
  51. Chapter I: How King Arthur took a wife, and wedded Guenever, daughter: to Leodegrance, King of the Land of Cameliard, with whom he had the Round Table
  52. Chapter II: How the Knights of the Round Table were ordained and their: sieges blessed by the Bishop of Canterbury
  53. Chapter III: How a poor man riding upon a lean mare desired King Arthur: to make his son knight
  54. Chapter IV: How Sir Tor was known for son of King Pellinore, and how: Gawaine was made knight
  55. 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
  56. Chapter VI: How Sir Gawaine rode for to fetch again the hart, and how: two brethren fought each against other for the hart
  57. Chapter VII How the hart was chased into a castle and there slain, and: how Sir Gawaine slew a lady
  58. Chapter VIII: How four knights fought against Gawaine and Gaheris, and: how they were overcome, and their lives saved at request of four ladies
  59. Chapter IX: How Sir Tor rode after the knight with the brachet, and of: his adventure by the way
  60. Chapter X: How Sir Tor found the brachet with a lady, and how a knight: assailed him for the said brachet
  61. Chapter XI: How Sir Tor overcame the knight, and how he lost his head: at the request of a lady
  62. Chapter XIII: How King Pellinore gat the lady and brought her to: Camelot to the court of King Arthur
  63. Chapter XIV: How on the way he heard two knights, as he lay by night in: a valley, and of their adventures
  64. Chapter XV: How when he was come to Camelot he was sworn upon a Book to: tell the truth of his quest
  65. Book IV
  66. Chapter I: How Merlin was assotted and doted on one of the ladies of: the lake, and how he was shut in a rock under a stone and there died
  67. Chapter II: How five kings came into this land to war against King: Arthur, and what counsel Arthur had against them
  68. Chapter III: How King Arthur had ado with them and overthrew them, and: slew the five kings and made the remnant to flee
  69. Chapter IV: How the battle was finished or he came, and how King Arthur: founded an abbey where the battle was
  70. Chapter V: How Sir Tor was made knight of the Round Table, and how: Bagdemagus was displeased
  71. Chapter VI: How King Arthur, King Uriens, and Sir Accolon of Gaul: chased an hart, and of their marvellous adventures
  72. 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
  73. Chapter VIII: How Accolon found himself by a well, and he took upon him: to do battle against Arthur
  74. Chapter IX: Of the battle between King Arthur and Accolon
  75. 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
  76. Chapter XI: How Accolon confessed the treason of Morgan le Fay, King: Arthur’s sister, and how she would have done slay him
  77. Chapter XII: How Arthur accorded the two brethren, and delivered the: twenty knights, and how Sir Accolon died
  78. Chapter XIII: How Morgan would have slain Sir Uriens her husband, and: how Sir Uwaine her son saved him
  79. Chapter XIV: How Queen Morgan le Fay made great sorrow for the death of: Accolon, and how she stole away the scabbard from Arthur
  80. Chapter XV: How Morgan le Fay saved a knight that should have been: drowned, and how King Arthur returned home again
  81. Chapter XVI: How the Damosel of the Lake saved King Arthur from mantle: that should have burnt him
  82. Chapter XVII: How Sir Gawaine and Sir Uwaine met with twelve fair: damosels, and how they complained on Sir Marhaus
  83. Chapter XVIII: How Sir Marhaus jousted with Sir Gawaine and Sir Uwaine: and overthrew them both
  84. Chapter XIX: How Sir Marhaus, Sir Gawaine, and Sir Uwaine met three: damosels, and each of them took one
  85. Chapter XX: How a knight and a dwarf strove for a lady
  86. 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
  87. Chapter XXII: How Sir Gawaine came to the Lady Ettard, and how Sir: Pelleas found them sleeping
  88. Chapter XXIII: How Sir Pelleas loved no more Ettard by means of the: Damosel of the Lake, whom he loved ever after
  89. Chapter XXIV: How Sir Marhaus rode with the damosel, and how he came to: the Duke of the South Marches
  90. Chapter XXV: How Sir Marhaus fought with the duke and his four sons and: made them to yield them
  91. Chapter XXVI: How Sir Uwaine rode with the damosel of sixty year of: age, and how he gat the prize at tourneying
  92. Chapter XXVII: How Sir Uwaine fought with two knights and overcame: them
  93. Chapter XXVIII: How at the year’s end all three knights with their: three damosels met at the fountain
  94. Book V
  95. Chapter I: How twelve aged ambassadors of Rome came to King Arthur to: demand truage for Britain
  96. Chapter II: How the kings and lords promised to King Arthur aid and: help against the Romans
  97. Chapter III: How King Arthur held a parliament at York, and how he: ordained the realm should be governed in his absence
  98. Chapter IV: How King Arthur being shipped and lying in his cabin had a: marvellous dream and of the exposition thereof
  99. Chapter V: How a man of the country told to him of a marvellous giant: and how he fought and conquered him
  100. Chapter VI: How King Arthur sent Sir Gawaine and other to Lucius, and: how they were assailed and escaped with worship
  101. Chapter VII: How Lucius sent certain spies in a bushment for to have: taken his knights being prisoners, and how they were letted
  102. Chapter VIII: How a senator told to Lucius of their discomfiture, and: also of the great battle between Arthur and Lucius
  103. Chapter IX: How Arthur, after he had achieved the battle against the: Romans, entered into Almaine, and so into Italy
  104. Chapter X: Of a battle done by Sir Gawaine against a Saracen, which: after was yielden and became Christian
  105. Chapter XI: How the Saracens came out of a wood for to rescue their: beasts, and of a great battle
  106. 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
  107. Book VI
  108. Chapter I: How Sir Launcelot and Sir Lionel departed from the court: and how Sir Lionel left him sleeping and was taken
  109. Chapter II: How Sir Ector followed for to seek Sir Launcelot, and how: he was taken by Sir Turquine
  110. Chapter III: How four queens found Launcelot sleeping, and how by: enchantment he was taken and led into a castle
  111. Chapter IV: How Sir Launcelot was delivered by the mean of a damosel
  112. Chapter V: How a knight found Sir Launcelot lying in his leman’s bed: and how Sir Launcelot fought with the knight
  113. Chapter VI: How Sir Launcelot was received of King Bagdemagus’: daughter, and how he made his complaint to her father
  114. Chapter VII: How Sir Launcelot behaved him in a tournament, and how he: met with Sir Turquine leading Sir Gaheris
  115. Chapter VIII: How Sir Launcelot and Sir Turquine fought together
  116. Chapter IX: How Sir Turquine was slain, and how Sir Launcelot bade Sir: Gaheris deliver all the prisoners
  117. 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
  118. Chapter XI: How Sir Launcelot slew two giants, and made a castle free
  119. Chapter XII: How Sir Launcelot rode disguised in Sir Kay’s harness, and: how he smote down a knight
  120. Chapter XIII: How Sir Launcelot jousted against four knights of the: Round Table and overthrew them
  121. 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
  122. 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
  123. Chapter XVI: How Sir Launcelot at the request of a lady recovered a: falcon, by which he was deceived
  124. Chapter XVII: How Sir Launcelot overtook a knight which chased his wife: to have slain her, and how he said to him
  125. Chapter XVIII: How Sir Launcelot came to King Arthur’s Court, and how: there were recounted all his noble feats and acts
  126. Book VII
  127. Chapter I: How Beaumains came to King Arthur’s Court and demanded three: petitions of King Arthur
  128. 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
  129. 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
  130. Chapter IV: How Beaumains departed, and how he gat of Sir Kay a spear: and a shield, and how he jousted with Sir Launcelot
  131. Chapter V: How Beaumains told to Sir Launcelot his name, and how he was: dubbed knight of Sir Launcelot, and after overtook the damosel
  132. Chapter VI: How Beaumains fought and slew two knights at a passage
  133. Chapter VII: How Beaumains fought with the Knight of the Black Launds: and fought with him till he fell down and died
  134. Chapter VIII: How the brother of the knight that was slain met with: Beaumains, and fought with Beaumains till he was yielden
  135. Chapter IX: How the damosel again rebuked Beaumains, and would not: suffer him to sit at her table, but called him kitchen boy
  136. Chapter X: How the third brother, called the Red Knight, jousted and: fought against Beaumains, and how Beaumains overcame him
  137. Chapter XI: How Sir Beaumains suffered great rebukes of the damosel: and he suffered it patiently
  138. Chapter XII: How Beaumains fought with Sir Persant of Inde, and made: him to be yielden
  139. Chapter XIII: Of the goodly communication between Sir Persant and: Beaumains, and how he told him that his name was Sir Gareth
  140. 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
  141. 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
  142. Chapter XVI: How the two knights met together, and of their talking: and how they began their battle
  143. 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
  144. 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
  145. 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
  146. Chapter XX: How Sir Beaumains rode after to rescue his dwarf, and came: into the castle where he was
  147. Chapter XXI: How Sir Gareth, otherwise called Beaumains, came to the: presence of his lady, and how they took acquaintance, and of their love
  148. 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
  149. 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
  150. Chapter XXIV: How King Arthur pardoned them, and demanded of them where: Sir Gareth was
  151. Chapter XXV: How the Queen of Orkney came to this feast of Pentecost: and Sir Gawaine and his brethren came to ask her blessing
  152. Chapter XXVI: How King Arthur sent for the Lady Lionesse, and how she: let cry a tourney at her castle, whereas came many knights
  153. Chapter XXVII: How King Arthur went to the tournament with his knights: and how the lady received him worshipfully, and how the knights encountered
  154. Chapter XXVIII: How the knights bare them in the battle
  155. Chapter XXIX: Yet of the said tournament
  156. Chapter XXX: How Sir Gareth was espied by the heralds, and how he: escaped out of the field
  157. Chapter XXXI: How Sir Gareth came to a castle where he was well lodged: and he jousted with a knight and slew him
  158. Chapter XXXII: How Sir Gareth fought with a knight that held within his: castle thirty ladies, and how he slew him
  159. Chapter XXXIII: How Sir Gareth and Sir Gawaine fought each against: other, and how they knew each other by the damosel Linet
  160. Chapter XXXIV: How Sir Gareth acknowledged that they loved each other: to King Arthur, and of the appointment of their wedding
  161. Chapter XXXV: Of the Great Royalty, and what officers were made at the: feast of the wedding, and of the jousts at the feast
  162. Book VIII
  163. Chapter I: How Sir Tristram de Liones was born, and how his mother died: at his birth, wherefore she named him Tristram
  164. Chapter II: How the stepmother of Sir Tristram had ordained poison for: to have poisoned Sir Tristram
  165. 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
  166. Chapter IV: How Sir Marhaus came out of Ireland for to ask truage of: Cornwall, or else he would fight therefore
  167. Chapter V: How Tristram enterprized the battle to fight for the truage: of Cornwall, and how he was made knight
  168. Chapter VI: How Sir Tristram arrived into the Island for to furnish the: battle with Sir Marhaus
  169. Chapter VII: How Sir Tristram fought against Sir Marhaus and achieved: his battle, and how Sir Marhaus fled to his ship
  170. 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
  171. Chapter IX: How Sir Tristram was put to the keeping of La Beale Isoud: first for to be healed of his wound
  172. 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
  173. Chapter XI: How the queen espied that Sir Tristram had slain her: brother Sir Marhaus by his sword, and in what jeopardy he was
  174. Chapter XII: How Sir Tristram departed from the king and La Beale Isoud: out of Ireland for to come into Cornwall
  175. Chapter XIII: How Sir Tristram and King Mark hurted each other for the: love of a knight’s wife
  176. Chapter XIV: How Sir Tristram lay with the lady, and how her husband: fought with Sir Tristram
  177. Chapter XV: How Sir Bleoberis demanded the fairest lady in King Mark’s: court, whom he took away, and how he was fought with
  178. Chapter XVI: How Sir Tristram fought with two knights of the Round: Table
  179. 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
  180. Chapter XVIII: How the lady forsook Sir Tristram and abode with Sir: Bleoberis, and how she desired to go to her husband
  181. Chapter XIX: How King Mark sent Sir Tristram for La Beale Isoud toward: Ireland, and how by fortune he arrived into England
  182. Chapter XX: How King Anguish of Ireland was summoned to come to King: Arthur’s court for treason
  183. Chapter XXI: How Sir Tristram rescued a child from a knight, and how: Gouvernail told him of King Anguish
  184. Chapter XXII: How Sir Tristram fought for Sir Anguish and overcame his: adversary, and how his adversary would never yield him
  185. Chapter XXIII: How Sir Blamore desired Tristram to slay him, and how: Sir Tristram spared him, and how they took appointment
  186. Chapter XXIV: How Sir Tristram demanded La Beale Isoud for King Mark: and how Sir Tristram and Isoud drank the love drink
  187. Chapter XXV: How Sir Tristram and Isoud were in prison, and how he: fought for her beauty, and smote off another lady’s head
  188. Chapter XXVI: How Sir Tristram fought with Sir Breunor, and at the last: smote off his head
  189. Chapter XXVII: How Sir Galahad fought with Sir Tristram, and how Sir: Tristram yielded him and promised to fellowship with Launcelot
  190. Chapter XXVIII: How Sir Launcelot met with Sir Carados bearing away Sir: Gawaine, and of the rescue of Sir Gawaine
  191. Chapter XXIX: Of the wedding of King Mark to La Beale Isoud, and of: Bragwaine her maid, and of Palamides
  192. Chapter XXX: How Palamides demanded Queen Isoud, and how Lambegus rode: after to rescue her, and of the escape of Isoud
  193. 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
  194. Chapter XXXII: How Sir Tristram brought Queen Isoud home, and of the: debate of King Mark and Sir Tristram
  195. Chapter XXXIII: How Sir Lamorak jousted with thirty knights, and Sir: Tristram at the request of King Mark smote his horse down
  196. 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
  197. 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
  198. Chapter XXXVI: How Sir Tristram served in war King Howel of Brittany: and slew his adversary in the field
  199. Chapter XXXVII: How Sir Suppinabiles told Sir Tristram how he was: defamed in the court of King Arthur, and of Sir Lamorak
  200. Chapter XXXVIII: How Sir Tristram and his wife arrived in Wales, and: how he met there with Sir Lamorak
  201. Chapter XXXIX: How Sir Tristram fought with Sir Nabon, and overcame: him, and made Sir Segwarides lord of the isle
  202. Chapter XL: How Sir Lamorak departed from Sir Tristram, and how he met: with Sir Frol, and after with Sir Launcelot
  203. Chapter XLI: How Sir Lamorak slew Sir Frol, and of the courteous: fighting with Sir Belliance his brother
  204. Book IX
  205. Chapter I: How a young man came into the court of King Arthur, and how: Sir Kay called him in scorn La Cote Male Taile
  206. 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
  207. Chapter III: How La Cote Male Taile overthrew Sir Dagonet the king’s: fool, and of the rebuke that he had of the damosel
  208. Chapter IV: How La Cote Male Taile fought against an hundred knights: and how he escaped by the mean of a lady
  209. 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
  210. Chapter VI: How Sir Launcelot fought with six knights, and after with: Sir Brian, and how he delivered the prisoners
  211. Chapter VII: How Sir Launcelot met with the damosel named Male disant: and named her the Damosel Bienpensant
  212. Chapter VIII: How La Cote Male Taile was taken prisoner, and after: rescued by Sir Launcelot, and how Sir Launcelot overcame four brethren
  213. 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
  214. Chapter X: How La Beale Isoud sent letters to Sir Tristram by her maid: Bragwaine, and of divers adventures of Sir Tristram
  215. Chapter XI: How Sir Tristram met with Sir Lamorak de Galis, and how: they fought, and after accorded never to fight together
  216. Chapter XII: How Sir Palomides followed the Questing Beast, and smote: down Sir Tristram and Sir Lamorak with one spear
  217. Chapter XIII: How Sir Lamorak met with Sir Meliagaunce, and fought: together for the beauty of Dame Guenever
  218. Chapter XIV: How Sir Kay met with Sir Tristram, and after of the shame: spoken of the knights of Cornwall, and how they jousted
  219. Chapter XV: How King Arthur was brought into the Forest Perilous, and: how Sir Tristram saved his life
  220. 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
  221. 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
  222. 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
  223. Chapter XIX: How it was noised how Sir Tristram was dead, and how La: Beale Isoud would have slain herself
  224. 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
  225. Chapter XXI: How King Mark, by the advice of his council, banished Sir: Tristram out of Cornwall the term of ten years
  226. Chapter XXII: How a damosel sought help to help Sir Launcelot against: thirty knights, and how Sir Tristram fought with them
  227. Chapter XXIII: How Sir Tristram and Sir Dinadan came to a lodging where: they must joust with two knights
  228. 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
  229. Chapter XXV: How Sir Tristram and Sir Gawaine rode to have foughten: with the thirty knights, but they durst not come out
  230. Chapter XXVI: How damosel Bragwaine found Tristram sleeping by a well: and how she delivered letters to him from La Beale Isoud
  231. Chapter XXVII: How Sir Tristram had a fall with Sir Palomides, and how: Launcelot overthrew two knights
  232. Chapter XXVIII: How Sir Launcelot jousted with Palomides and overthrew: him, and after he was assailed with twelve knights
  233. Chapter XXIX: How Sir Tristram behaved him the first day of the: tournament, and there he had the prize
  234. Chapter XXX: How Sir Tristram returned against King Arthur’s party: because he saw Sir Palomides on that party
  235. Chapter XXXI: How Sir Tristram found Palomides by a well, and brought: him with him to his lodging
  236. Chapter XXXII: How Sir Tristram smote down Sir Palomides, and how he: jousted with King Arthur, and other feats
  237. Chapter XXXIII: How Sir Launcelot hurt Sir Tristram, and how after Sir: Tristram smote down Sir Palomides
  238. Chapter XXXIV: How the prize of the third day was given to Sir: Launcelot, and Sir Launcelot gave it to Sir Tristram
  239. 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
  240. Chapter XXXVI: How Sir Tristram, Sir Palomides, and Sir Dinadan were: taken and put in prison
  241. 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
  242. Chapter XXVIII: Of the treason of King Mark, and how Sir Gaheris smote: him down and Andred his cousin
  243. Chapter XIX: How after that Sir Tristram, Sir Palomides, and Sir: Dinadan had been long in prison they were delivered
  244. Chapter XL: How Sir Dinadan rescued a lady from Sir Breuse Saunce Pité: and how Sir Tristram received a shield of Morgan le Fay
  245. Chapter XLI: How Sir Tristram took with him the shield, and also how he: slew the paramour of Morgan le Fay
  246. Chapter XLII: How Morgan le Fay buried her paramour, and how Sir: Tristram praised Sir Launcelot and his kin
  247. Chapter XLIII: How Sir Tristram at a tournament bare the shield that: Morgan le Fay delivered to him

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