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. GLOSSARY 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.