CHAPTER XV. Of the deliverance of the queen to the king by Sir
Launcelot, and what language Sir Gawaine had to Sir Launcelot.
CHAPTER XVI. Of the communication between Sir Gawaine and Sir
Launcelot, with much other language.
CHAPTER XVII. How Sir Launcelot departed from the king and from Joyous
Gard over seaward, and what knights went with him.
CHAPTER XVIII. How Sir Launcelot passed over the sea, and how he made
great lords of the knights that went with him.
CHAPTER XIX. How King Arthur and Sir Gawaine made a great host ready
to go over sea to make war on Sir Launcelot.
CHAPTER XX. What message Sir Gawaine sent to Sir Launcelot; and how
King Arthur laid siege to Benwick, and other matters.
CHAPTER XXI. How Sir Launcelot and Sir Gawaine did battle together,
and how Sir Gawaine was overthrown and hurt.
CHAPTER XXII. Of the sorrow that King Arthur made for the war, and of
another battle where also Sir Gawaine had the worse
BOOK XXI.
CHAPTER I. How Sir Mordred presumed and took on him to be King of
England, and would have married the queen, his father’s wife.
CHAPTER II. How after that King Arthur had tidings, he returned and
came to Dover, where Sir Mordred met him to let his landing; and of
the death of Sir Gawaine.
CHAPTER III. How after, Sir Gawaine’s ghost appeared to King Arthur,
and warned him that he should not fight that day.
CHAPTER IV. How by misadventure of an adder the battle began, where
Mordred was slain, and Arthur hurt to the death.
CHAPTER V. How King Arthur commanded to cast his sword Excalibur into
the water, and how he was delivered to ladies in a barge.
CHAPTER VI. How Sir Bedivere found him on the morrow dead in an
hermitage, and how he abode there with the hermit.
CHAPTER VII. Of the opinion of some men of the death of King Arthur;
and how Queen Guenever made her a nun in Almesbury.
CHAPTER VIII. How when Sir Lancelot heard of the death of King Arthur,
and of Sir Gawaine, and other matters, he came into England.
CHAPTER IX. How Sir Launcelot departed to seek the Queen Guenever, and
how he found her at Almesbury.
CHAPTER X. How Sir Launcelot came to the hermitage where the
Archbishop of Canterbury was, and how he took the habit on him.
CHAPTER XI. How Sir Launcelot went with his seven fellows to
Almesbury, and found there Queen Guenever dead, whom they brought to
Glastonbury.
CHAPTER XII. How Sir Launcelot began to sicken, and after died, whose
body was borne to Joyous Gard for to be buried.
CHAPTER XIII. How Sir Ector found Sir Launcelot his brother dead, and
how Constantine reigned next after Arthur; and of the end of this
book. GLOSSARY
BOOK X.
CHAPTER I. How Sir Tristram jousted, and smote down King Arthur,
because he told him not the cause why he bare that shield.
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