Le Morte Darthur
How a senator told to Lucius of their discomfiture, and also of the
great battle between Arthur and Lucius. Chap. viii.
How Arthur, after he had achieved the battle against the Romans,
entered into Almaine, and so into Italy. Chap. ix.
Of a battle done by Gawaine against a Saracen, which after was yielden
and became Christian. Chap. x.
How the Saracens came out of a wood for to rescue their beasts, and of
a great battle. Chap. xi.
How Sir Gawaine returned to king Arthur with his prisoners, and how the
king won a city, and how he was crowned emperor. Chap. xii.
Here follow the Chapters of the Sixth Book.
How Sir Launcelot and Sir Lionel departed from the court for to seek
adventures, and how Sir Lionel left him sleeping, and was taken.
Chap. i.
How Sir Ector followed for to seek Sir Launcelot, and how he was taken
by Sir Turquine. Chap. ii.
How four queens found Launcelot sleeping, and how by enchantment he was
taken and led into a castle. Chap. iii.
How Sir Launcelot was delivered by the mean of a damsel. Chap. iv.
How a knight found Sir Launcelot, and how Sir Launcelot fought with the
knight. Chap. v.
How Sir Launcelot was received of king Bagdemagus’s daughter, and he
made his complaint to her father. Chap. vi.
How Sir Launcelot behaved him in a tournament, and how he met with Sir
Turquine leading Sir Gaheris. Chap. vii.
How Sir Launcelot and Sir Turquine fought together. Chap. viii.
How Sir Turquine was slain, and how Sir Launcelot bad Sir Gaheris
deliver all the prisoners. Chap. ix.
How Sir Launcelot rode with the damsel and slew a knight that
distressed all ladies, and also a villain that kept a bridge. Chap. x.
How Sir Launcelot slew two giants, and made a castle free. Chap. xi.
How Sir Launcelot rode disguised in Sir Kay’s harness, and how he smote
down a knight. Chap. xii.
How Sir Launcelot jousted against four knights of the Round Table, and
overthrew them. Chap. xiii.
How Sir Launcelot followed a brachet into a castle, where he found a
dead knight, and how he after was required of a damsel to heal her
brother. Chap. xiv.
How Sir Launcelot came into the Chapel Perilous, and gat there of a
dead corpse a piece of the cloth and a sword. Chap. xv.
How Sir Launcelot, at the request of a lady, recovered a falcon, by
which he was deceived. Chap. xvi.
How Sir Launcelot overtook a knight which chased his wife to have slain
her, and how he said to him. Chap. xvii.
How Sir Launcelot came to king Arthur’s court, and how there were
recounted all his noble feats and acts. Chap. xviii.
Here follow the Chapters of the Seventh Book.
How Beaumains came to king Arthur’s court, and demanded three petitions
of king Arthur. Chap. i.
How Sir Launcelot and Sir Gawaine were wroth because Sir Kay mocked
Beaumains, and of a damsel which desired a knight for to fight for a
lady. Chap. ii.
How Beaumains desired the battle, and how it was granted to him, and
how he desired to be made knight of Sir Launcelot. Chap. iii.
How Beaumains departed, and how he gat of Sir Kay a spear and a shield,
and how he justed and fought with Sir Launcelot. Chap. iv.
How Beaumains told to Sir Launcelot his name, and how he was dubbed
knight of Sir Launcelot, and after overtook the damsel. Chap. v.
How Sir Beaumains fought and slew two knights at a passage. Chap. vi.
How Beaumains fought with the knight of the black lands, and fought
with him till he fell down and died. Chap. vii.
How the brother of the knight that was slain met with Beaumains, and
fought with Beaumains till he was yielden. Chap. viii.
How the damsel ever rebuked Beaumains, and would not suffer him to sit
at her table, but called him kitchen boy. Chap. ix.
How the third brother, called the red knight, jousted and fought
against Beaumains, and how Beaumains overcame him. Chap. x.
How Sir Beaumains suffered great rebukes of the damsel, and he suffered
it patiently. Chap. xi.
How Sir Beaumains fought with Sir Persant of inde, and made him to be
yielden. Chap. xii.
Of the goodly communication between Sir Persant and Beaumains, and how
he told him that his name was Sir Gareth. Chap. xiii.
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.
Chap. xiv.
How the damsel and Beaumains came to the siege, and came to a sycamore
tree, and there Beaumains blew an horn, and then the knight of the
red lands came to fight with him. Chap. xv.
How the two knights met together, and of their talking, and how they
began their battle. Chap. xvi.
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. Chap. xvii.
How the knight yielded him, and how Beaumains made him to go unto king
Arthur’s court, and to cry Sir Launcelot mercy. Chap. xviii.
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. Chap. xix.
How Sir Beaumains rode after to rescue his dwarf, and came into the
castle where he was. Chap. xx.
How Sir Gareth, otherwise called Beaumains, came to the presence of his
lady, and how they took acquaintance, and of their love. Chap. xxi.
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. Chap. xxii.
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. Chap. xxiii.
How king Arthur pardoned them, and demanded of them where Sir Gareth
was. Chap. xxiv.
How the queen of Orkney came to this feast of Pentecost, and Sir
Gawaine and his brethren came to ask her blessing. Chap. xxv.
How king Arthur sent for the lady Liones, and how she let cry a tourney
at her castle, where as came many knights. Chap. xxvi.
How king Arthur went to the tournament with his knights, and how the
lady received him worshipfully, and how the knights encountered.
Chap. xxvii.
How the knights bare them in battle. Chap. xxviii.
Yet of the said tournament. Chap. xxix.
How Sir Gareth was espied by the heralds, and how he escaped out of the
field. Chap. xxx.
How Sir Gareth came to a castle where he was well lodged, and how he
justed with a knight and slew him. Chap. xxxi.
How Sir Gareth fought with a knight that held within his castle thirty
ladies, and how he slew him. Chap. xxxii.
How Sir Gawaine and Sir Gareth fought each against other, and how they
knew each other by the damsel Linet. Chap. xxxiii.
How Sir Gareth acknowledged that they loved each other to king Arthur,
and of the appointment of their wedding. Chap. xxxiv.
Of the great royalty, and what officers were made at the feast of the
wedding, and of the justs at the feast. Chap. xxxv.
Here follow the Chapters of the Eighth Book.
How Sir Tristram de Liones was born, and how his mother died at his
birth, wherefore she named him Tristram. Chap. i.
How the step-mother of Sir Tristram had ordained poison for to have
poisoned Sir Tristram. Chap. ii.
How Sir Tristram was sent into France, and had one to govern him named
Gouvernail, and how he learned to harp, hawk, and hunt. Chap. iii.
How Sir Marhaus came out of Ireland for to ask truage of Cornwall, or
else he would fight therefore. Chap. iv.
How Tristram enterprized the battle to fight for the truage of
Cornwall, and how he was made knight. Chap. v.
How Sir Tristram arrived into the island for to furnish the battle with
Sir Marhaus. Chap. vi.
How Sir Tristram fought against Sir Marhaus, and achieved his battle,
and how Sir Marhaus fled to his ship. Chap. vii.
How Sir Marhaus, after that he was arrived in Ireland, died of the
stroke that Tristram had given to him, and how Tristram was hurt.
Chap. viii.
How Sir Tristram was put to the keeping of La Beale Isoud, for to be
healed of his wound. Chap. ix.
How Sir Tristram won the degree at a tournament in Ireland, and there
made Palamides to bear no harness in a year. Chap. x.
How the queen espied that Sir Tristram had slain her brother, Sir
Marhaus, by his sword, and in what jeopardy he was. Chap. xi.
How Sir Tristram departed from the king and La Beale Isoud out of
Ireland for to come into Cornwall. Chap. xii.
How Sir Tristram and king Mark hurt each other for the love of a
knight’s wife. Chap. xiii.
How Sir Tristram came to the lady, and how her husband fought with Sir
Tristram. Chap. xiv.
How Sir Bleoberis demanded the fairest lady in king Mark’s court, whom
he took away, and how he was fought with. Chap. xv.
How Sir Tristram fought with two knights of the Round Table. Chap. xvi.
How Sir Tristram fought with Sir Bleoberis for a lady, and how the lady
was put to choice to whom she would go. Chap. xvii.
How the lady forsook Sir Tristram and abode with Sir Bleoberis, and how
she desired to go to her husband. Chap. xviii.
How king Mark sent Sir Tristram for La Beale Isoud toward Ireland, and
how by fortune he arrived into England. Chap. xix.
How king Anguish of Ireland was summoned to come to king Arthur’s court
for treason. Chap. xx.
How Sir Tristram rescued a child from a knight, and how Gouvernail told
him of king Anguish. Chap. xxi.
How Sir Tristram fought for Sir Anguish and overcame his adversary, and
how his adversary would never yield him. Chap. xxii.
How Sir Blamor desired Tristram to slay him, and how Sir Tristram
spared him, and how they took appointment. Chap. xxiii.
How Sir Tristram demanded La Beale Isoud for king Mark, and how Sir
Tristram and Isoud drank the love drink. Chap. xxiv.
How Sir Tristram and Isoud were in prison, and how he fought for her
beauty, and smote off another lady’s head. Chap. xxv.
How Sir Tristram fought with Sir Breunor, and at the last smote off his
head. Chap. xxvi.
How Sir Galahad fought with Sir Tristram, and how Sir Tristram yielded
him and promised to fellowship with Launcelot. Chap. xxvii.
How Sir Launcelot met with Sir Carados bearing away Sir Gawaine, and of
the rescue of Sir Gawaine. Chap. xxviii.
Of the wedding of king Mark to La Beale Isoud, and of Bragwaine her
maid, and of Palamides. Chap. xxix.
How Palamides demanded queen Isoud, and how Lambegus rode after to
rescue her, and of the escape of Isoud. Chap. xxx.
How Sir Tristram rode after Palamides, and how he found him and fought
with him, and by the mean of Isoud the battle ceased. Chap. xxxi.
How Sir Tristram brought queen Isoud home, and of the debate of king
Mark and Sir Tristram. Chap. xxxii.
How Sir Lamorak justed with thirty knights, and Sir Tristram at the
request of king Mark smote his horse down. Chap. xxxiii.
How Sir Lamorak sent an horn to king Mark in despite of Sir Tristram,
and how Sir Tristram was driven into a chapel. Chap. xxxiv.
How Sir Tristram was holpen by his men, and of queen Isoud, which was
put in a lazarcote, and how Tristram was hurt. Chap. xxxv.
How Sir Tristram served in war the king Howell of Britain and slew his
adversary in the field. Chap. xxxvi.
How Sir Suppinabiles told Sir Tristram how he was defamed in the court
of king Arthur, and of Sir Lamorak. Chap. xxxvii.
How Sir Tristram and his wife arrived in Wales, and how he met there
with Sir Lamorak. Chap. xxxviii.
How Sir Tristram fought with Sir Nabon and overcame him, and made Sir
Lamorak lord of the isle. Chap. xxxix.