Le Morte D'Arthur

, by MALORY, THOMAS SIRBRYAN, ELIZABETH

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ISBN: 9780375753220 | 0375753222
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Copyright: 2/22/1999

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The text is unabridged, with original spelling and extensive, easy-to-use marginal glosses and footnotes.

BOOK I

(48)

I. How Uther Pendragon sent for the duke of Cornwall and Igraine his wife, and of their departing suddenly again

(2)

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

(1)

III. Of the birth of King Arthur and of his nurture

(2)

IV. Of the death of King Uther Pendragon

(1)

V. How Arthur was chosen king, and of wonders and marvels of a sword taken out of a stone by the said Arthur

(2)

VI. How King Arthur pulled out the sword divers times

(2)

VII. How King Arthur was crowned, and how he made officers

(1)

VIII. How King Arthur held in Wales, at a Pentecost, a great feast, and what kings and lords came to his feast

(1)

IX. Of the first war that King Arthur had, and how he won the field

(2)

X. How Merlin counselled King Arthur to send for King Ban and King Bors, and of their counsel taken for the war

(3)

XI. Of a great tourney made by King Arthur and the two kings Ban and Bors, and how they went over the sea

(2)

XII. How eleven kings gathered a great host against King Arthur

(1)

XIII. Of a dream of the King with the Hundred Knights

(1)

XIV. How the eleven kings with their host fought against Arthur and his host, and many great feats of the war

(3)

XV. Yet of the same battle

(2)

XVI. Yet more of the same battle

(3)

XVII. Yet more of the same battle, and how it was ended by Merlin

(3)

XVIII. How King Arthur, King Ban, and King Bors rescued King Leodegrance, and other incidents

(2)

XIX. How King Arthur rode to Carlion, and of his dream, and how he saw the questing beast

(1)

XX. How King Pellinore took Arthur's horse and followed the questing beast, and how Merlin met with Arthur

(2)

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

(2)

XXII. How Griflet was made knight, and jousted with a knight

(1)

XXIII. How twelve knights came from Rome and asked truage for this land of Arthur, and how Arthur fought with a knight

(2)

XXIV. How Merlin saved Arthur's life, and threw an enchantment on King Pellinore and made him to sleep

(1)

XXV. How Arthur by the mean of Merlin gat Excalibur his sword of the Lady of the Lake

(2)

XXVI. How tidings came to Arthur that King Rience had overcome eleven kings, and how he desired Arthur's beard to trim his mantle

(1)

XXVII. How all the children were sent for that were born on May-day, and how Mordred was saved

(2)

BOOK II

(30)

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

(2)

II. How Balin, arrayed like a poor knight, pulled out the sword, which afterward was the cause of his death

(2)

III. How the Lady of the Lake demanded the knight's head that had won the sword, or the maiden's head

(1)

IV. How Merlin told the adventure of this damosel

(1)

V. How Balin was pursued by Sir Lanceor, knight of Ireland, and how he jousted and slew him

(2)

VI. How a damosel, which was love to Lanceor, slew herself for love, and how Balin met with his brother Balan

(1)

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

(1)

VIII. How Merlin prophesied that two the best knights of the world should fight there, which were Sir Lancelot and Sir Tristram

(2)

IX. How Balin and his brother, by the counsel of Merlin, took King Rience and brought him to King Arthur

(1)

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

(2)

XI. Of the interment of twelve kings, and of the prophecy of Merlin, and how Balin should give the dolorous stroke

(1)

XII. How a sorrowful knight came before Arthur, and how Balin fetched him, and how that knight was slain by a knight invisible

(2)

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

(1)

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

(2)

XV. How Balin fought with King Pellam, and how his sword brake, and how he gat a spear wherewith he smote the dolorous stroke

(1)

XVI. How Balin was delivered by Merlin, and saved a knight that would have slain himself for love

(2)

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

(1)

XVIII. How Balin met with his brother Balan, and how each of them slew other unknown, till they were wounded to death

(3)

XIX. How Merlin buried them both in one tomb, and of Balin's sword

(2)

BOOK III

(23)

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

(1)

II. How the Knights of the Round Table were ordained and their sieges blessed by the Bishop of Canterbury

(1)

III. How a poor man riding upon a lean mare desired King Arthur to make his son knight

(2)

IV. How Sir Tor was known for son of King Pellinore, and how Gawaine was made knight

(1)

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

(1)

VI. How Sir Gawaine rode for to fetch again the hart, and how two brethren fought each against other for the hart

(2)

VII. How the hart was chased into a castle and there slain, and how Sir Gawaine slew a lady

(1)

VIII. How four knights fought against Gawaine and Gaheris, and how they were overcome, and their lives saved at request of four ladies

(2)

IX. How Sir Tor rode after the knight with the brachet, and of his adventure by the way

(2)

X. How Sir Tor found the brachet with a lady, and how a knight assailed him for the said brachet

(1)

XI. How Sir Tor overcame the knight, and how he lost his head at the request of a lady

(2)

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

(2)

XIII. How King Pellinore gat the lady and brought her to Camelot to the court of King Arthur

(1)

XIV. How on the way he heard two knights, as he lay by night in a valley, and of their adventures

(1)

XV. How when he was come to Camelot he was sworn upon a book to tell the truth of his quest

(3)

BOOK IV

102

(47)

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

102

(2)

II. How five kings came into this land to war against King Arthur, and what counsel Arthur had against them

104

(1)

III. How King Arthur had ado with them and overthrew them, and slew the five kings and made the remnant to flee

105

(2)

IV. How the battle was finished or he came, and how King Arthur founded an abbey where the battle was

107

(1)

V. How Sir Tor was made knight of the Round Table, and how Bagdemagus was displeased

108

(2)

VI. How King Arthur, King Uriens, and Sir Accolon of Gaul, chased an hart, and of their marvelous adventures

110

(1)

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

111

(2)

VIII. How Accolon found himself by a well, and he took upon him to do battle against Arthur

113

(2)

IX. Of the battle between King Arthur and Accolon

115

(1)

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

116

(2)

XI. How Accolon confessed the treason of Morgan le Fay, King Arthur's sister, and how she would have done slay him

118

(2)

XII. How Arthur accorded the two brethren, and delivered the twenty knights, and how Sir Accolon died

120

(1)

XIII. How Morgan would have slain Sir Uriens her husband, and how Sir Uwaine her son saved him

121

(1)

XIV. How Queen Morgan le Fay made great sorrow for the death of Accolon, and how she stole away the scabbard from Arthur

122

(2)

XV. How Morgan le Fay saved a knight that should have been drowned, and how King Arthur returned home again

124

(2)

XVI. How the Damosel of the Lake saved King Arthur from a mantle that should have burnt him

126

(1)

XVII. How Sir Gawaine and Sir Uwaine met with twelve fair damosels, and how they complained on Sir Marhaus

127

(1)

XVIII. How Sir Marhaus jousted with Sir Gawaine and Sir Uwaine, and overthrew them both

128

(3)

XIX. How Sir Marhaus, Sir Gawaine, and Sir Uwaine met three damosels, and each of them took one

131

(1)

XX. How a knight and a dwarf strove for a lady

132

(3)

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

135

(2)

XXII. How Sir Gawaine came to the Lady Ettard, and how Sir Pelleas found them sleeping

137

(3)

XXIII. How Sir Pelleas loved no more Ettard by means of the Damosel of the Lake, whom he loved ever after

140

(1)

XXIV. How Sir Marhaus rode with the damosel, and how he came to the Duke of the South Marches

141

(1)

XXV. How Sir Marhaus fought with the duke and his four sons and made them to yield them

142

(2)

XXVI. How Sir Uwaine rode with the damosel of sixty year of age, and how he gat the prize at tourneying

144

(2)

XXVII. How Sir Uwaine fought with two knights and overcame them

146

(1)

XXVIII. How at the year's end all three knights with their three damosels met at the fountain

147

(2)

BOOK V

149

(26)

I. How twelve aged ambassadors of Rome came to King Arthur to demand truage for Britain

149

(2)

II. How the Kings and lords promised to King Arthur aid and help against the Romans

151

(2)

III. How King Arthur held a parliament at York, and how he ordained the realm should be governed in his absence

153

(1)

IV. How King Arthur being shipped and lying in his cabin had a marvellous dream and of the exposition thereof

154

(2)

V. How a man of the country told to him of a marvellous giant, and how he fought and conquered him

156

(3)

VI. How King Arthur sent Sir Gawaine and other to Lucius, and how they were assailed and escaped with worship

159

(2)

VII. How Lucius sent certain spies in a bushment for to have taken his knights being prisoners, and how they were letted

161

(1)

VIII. How a senator told to Lucius of their discomfiture, and also of the great battle between Arthur and Lucius

162

(4)

IX. How Arthur, after he had achieved the battle against the Romans, entered into Almaine, and so into Italy

166

(1)

X. Of a battle done by Sir Gawaine against a Saracen, which after was yielden and became Christian

167

(3)

XI. How the Saracens came out of a wood for to rescue their beasts, and of a great battle

170

(1)

XII. How Sir Gawaine returned to King Arthur with his prisoners, and how the King won a city, and how he was crowned Emperor

171

(4)

BOOK VI

175

(34)

I. How Sir Launcelot and Sir Lionel departed from the court, and how Sir Lionel left him sleeping and was taken

175

(2)

II. How Sir Ector followed for to seek Sir Launcelot, and how he was taken by Sir Turquine

177

(1)

III. How four queens found Launcelot sleeping, and how by enchantment he was taken and led into a castle

178

(2)

IV. How Sir Launcelot was delivered by the mean of a damosel

180

(1)

V. How a knight found Sir Launcelot lying in his leman's bed, and how Sir Launcelot fought with the knight

181

(2)

VI. How Sir Launcelot was received of King Bagdemagus' daughter, and how he made his complaint to her father

183

(1)

VII. How Sir Launcelot behaved him in a tournament, and how he met with Sir Turquine leading Sir Gaheris

184

(3)

VIII. How Sir Launcelot and Sir Turquine fought together

187

(1)

IX. How Sir Turquine was slain, and how Sir Launcelot bade Sir Gaheris deliver all the prisoners

188

(2)

X. How Sir Launcelot rode with a damosel and slew a knight that distressed all ladies and also a villain that kept a bridge

190

(2)

XI. How Sir Launcelot slew two giants, and made a castle free

192

(4)

XII. How Sir Launcelot rode disguised in Sir Kay's harness, and how he smote down a knight

196

(2)

XIII. How Sir Launcelot jousted against four knights of the Round Table and overthrew them

198

(1)

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

199

(2)

XV. How Sir Launcelot came into the Chapel Perilous and gat there of a dead corpse a piece of the cloth and a sword

201

(2)

XVI. How Sir Launcelot at the request of a lady recovered a falcon, by which he was deceived

203

(2)

XVII. How Sir Launcelot overtook a knight which chased his wife to have slain her, and how he said to him

205

(2)

XVIII. How Sir Launcelot came to King Arthur's Court, and how there were recounted all his noble feats and acts

207

(2)

BOOK VII

209

(69)

I. How Beaumains came to King Arthur's Court and demanded three petitions of King Arthur

209

(2)

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

211

(2)

III. How Beaumains desired the battle, and how it was granted to him, and how he desired to be made knight of Sir Launcelot

213

(1)

IV. How Beaumains departed, and how he gat of Sir Kay a spear and a shield, and how he jousted with Sir Launcelot

214

(1)

V. How Beaumains told to Sir Launcelot his name, and how he was dubbed knight of Sir Launcelot, and after overtook the damosel

215

(2)

VI. How Beaumains fought and slew two knights at a passage

217

(2)

VII. How Beaumains fought with the Knight of the Black Launds, and fought with him till he fell down and died

219

(2)

VIII. How the brother of the knight that was slain met with Beaumains, and fought with Beaumains till he was yielden

221

(2)

IX. How the damosel again rebuked Beaumains, and would not suffer him to sit at her table, but called him kitchen boy

223

(1)

X. How the third brother, called the Red Knight, jousted and fought against Beaumains, and how Beaumains overcame him

224

(2)

XI. How Sir Beaumains suffered great rebukes of the damosel, and he suffered it patiently

226

(3)

XII. How Beaumains fought with Sir Persant of Inde, and made him to be yielden

229

(2)

XIII. Of the goodly communication between Sir Persant and Beaumains, and how he told him that his name was Sir Gareth

231

(1)

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

232

(3)

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

235

(2)

XVI. How the two knights met together, and of their talking, and how they began their battle

237

(1)

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

238

(2)

XVIII. How the knight yielded him, and how Beaumains made him to go unto King Arthur's court, and to cry Sir Launcelot mercy

240

(2)

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

242

(2)

XX. How Sir Beaumains rode after to rescue his dwarf, and came into the castle where he was

244

(3)

XXI. How Sir Gareth, otherwise called Beaumains, came to the presence of his lady, and how they took acquaintance, and of their love

247

(1)

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

248

(3)

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

251

(2)

XXIV. How King Arthur pardoned them, and demanded of them where Sir Gareth was

253

(1)

XXV. How the Queen of Orkney came to this feast of Pentecost, and Sir Gawaine and his brethren came to ask her blessing

254

(2)

XXVI. How King Arthur sent for the Lady Lionesse, and how she let cry a tourney at her castle, whereas came many knights

256

(3)

XXVII. How King Arthur went to the tournament with his knights, and how the lady received him worshipfully, and how the knights encountered

259

(2)

XXVIII. How the knights bare them in the battle

261

(3)

XXIX. Yet of the said tournament

264

(1)

XXX. How Sir Gareth was espied by the heralds, and how he escaped out of the field

265

(2)

XXXI. How Sir Gareth came to a castle where he was well lodged, and he jousted with a knight and slew him

267

(2)

XXXII. How Sir Gareth fought with a knight that held within his castle thirty ladies, and how he slew him

269

(2)

XXXIII. How Sir Gareth and Sir Gawaine fought each against other, and how they knew each other by the damosel Linet

271

(2)

XXXIV. How Sir Gareth acknowledged that they loved each other to King Arthur, and of the appointment of their wedding

273

(2)

XXXV. Of the Great Royalty, and what officers were made at the feast of the wedding, and of the jousts at the feast

275

(3)

BOOK VIII

278

(73)

I. How Sir Tristram de Liones was born, and how his mother died at his birth, wherefore she named him Tristram

278

(2)

II. How the stepmother of Sir Tristram had ordained poison for to have poisoned Sir Tristram

280

(2)

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

282

(1)

IV. How Sir Marhaus came out of Ireland for to ask truage of Cornwall, or else he would fight therefore

283

(2)

V. How Tristram enterprized the battle to fight for the truage of Cornwall, and how he was made knight

285

(2)

VI. How Sir Tristram arrived into the Island for to furnish the battle with Sir Marhaus

287

(1)

VII. How Sir Tristram fought against Sir Marhaus and achieved his battle, and how Sir Marhaus fled to his ship

288

(2)

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

290

(2)

IX. How Sir Tristram was put to the keeping of La Beale Isoud first for to be healed of his wound

292

(2)

X. How Sir Tristram won the degree at a tournament in Ireland, and there made Palamides to bear no more harness in a year

294

(2)

XI. How the queen espied that Sir Tristram had slain her brother Sir Marhaus by his sword, and in what jeopardy he was

296

(1)

XII. How Sir Tristram departed from the king and La Beale Isoud out of Ireland for to come into Cornwall

297

(2)

XIII. How Sir Tristram and King Mark hurted each other for the love of a knight's wife

299

(2)

XIV. How Sir Tristram lay with the lady, and how her husband fought with Sir Tristram

301

(2)

XV. How Sir Bleoberis demanded the fairest lady in King Mark's court, whom he took away, and how he was fought with

303

(2)

XVI. How Sir Tristram fought with two knights of the Round Table

305

(1)

XVII. How Sir Tristram fought with Sir Bleoberis for a lady, and how the lady was put to choice to whom she would go

306

(2)

XVIII. How the lady forsook Sir Tristram and abode with Sir Bleoberis, and how she desired to go to her husband

308

(2)

XIX. How King Mark sent Sir Tristram for La Beale Isoud toward Ireland, and how by fortune he arrived into England

310

(1)

XX. How King Anguish of Ireland was summoned to come to King Arthur's court for treason

311

(1)

XXI. How Sir Tristram rescued a child from a knight, and how Gouvernail told him of King Anguish

312

(2)

XXII. How Sir Tristram fought for Sir Anguish and overcame his adversary, and how his adversary would never yield him

314

(2)

XXIII. How Sir Blamore desired Tristram to slay him, and how Sir Tristram spared him, and how they took appointment

316

(2)

XXIV. How Sir Tristram demanded La Beale Isoud for King Mark, and how Sir Tristram and Isoud drank the love drink

318

(1)

XXV. How Sir Tristram and Isoud were in prison, and how he fought for her beauty, and smote off another lady's head

319

(3)

XXVI. How Sir Tristram fought with Sir Breunor, and at the last smote off his head

322

(1)

XXVII. How Sir Galahad fought with Sir Tristram, and how Sir Tristram yielded him and promised to fellowship with Launcelot

323

(2)

XXVIII. How Sir Launcelot met with Sir Carados bearing away Sir Gawaine, and of the rescue of Sir Gawaine

325

(1)

XXIX. Of the wedding of King Mark to La Beale Isoud, and of Bragwaine her maid, and of Palamides

326

(1)

XXX. How Palamides demanded Queen Isoud, and how Lambegus rode after to rescue her, and of the escape of Isoud

327

(2)

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

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