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 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.

## 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 I . How twelve aged ambassadors of Rome came to King Arthur to

demand truage for Britain.

## 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 I . How Sir Launcelot and Sir Lionel departed from the court,

and how Sir Lionel left him sleeping and was taken.

## 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 I . How Beaumains came to King Arthur's Court and demanded

three petitions of King Arthur.

## 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 I . How Sir Tristram de Liones was born, and how his mother

died at his birth, wherefore she named him Tristram.

## 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 ## CHAPTER XLI . How Sir Lamorak slew Sir Frol, and of the courteous

fighting with Sir Belliance his brother.

## BOOK IX.

## 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.

## 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.

##