Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and his Noble; Knights of the Round TableMalory, Thomas, Sir
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Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and his Noble; Knights of the Round Table
Malory, Thomas, Sir
Arthurian romances
How Balin was delivered by Merlin, and saved a knight that would have
slain himself for love. Chap. xvi.
How that knight slew his love, and a knight with her; and after how he
slew himself with his own sword, and how Balin rode toward a castle
where he lost his life. Chap. xvii.
How Balin met with his brother Balan, and how each of them slew other
unknown, till they were wounded to death. Chap. xviii.
How Merlin buried them both in one tomb, and of Balin’s sword. Chap.
xix.
Here follow the Chapters of the Third Book.
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. Chap. i.
How the knights of the Round Table were ordained and their sieges
blessed by the bishop of Canterbury. Chap. ii.
How a poor man riding upon a lean mare desired of king Arthur to make
his son knight. Chap. iii.
How Sir Tor was known for son of king Pellinore, and how Gawaine was
made knight. Chap. iv.
How at the 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. Chap. v.
How Sir Gawaine rode for to fetch again the hart, and how two brethren
fought each against other for the hart. Chap. vi.
How the hart was chased into a castle, and there slain; and how Gawaine
slew a lady. Chap. vii.
How four knights fought against Sir Gawaine and Gaheris, and how they
were overcome and their lives saved at the request of four ladies.
Chap. viii.
How Sir Tor rode after the knight with the brachet, and of his
adventure by the way. Chap. ix.
How Sir Tor found the brachet with a lady, and how a knight assailed
him for the said brachet. Chap. x.
How Sir Tor overcame the knight, and how he lost his head at the
request of a lady. Chap. xi.
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 that one at the first stroke.
Chap. xii.
How king Pellinore gat the lady, and brought her to Camelot to the
court of king Arthur. Chap. xiii.
How on the way he heard two knights as he lay by night in a valley, and
of other adventures. Chap. xiv.
How when he was come to Camelot he was sworn upon a book to tell the
truth of his quest. Chap. xv.
Here follow the Chapters of the Fourth Book.
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. Chap. i.
How five kings came into this land to war against king Arthur, and what
counsel Arthur had against them. Chap. ii.
How king Arthur had ado with them, and overthrew them, and slew the
five kings, and made the remnant to flee. Chap. iii.
How the battle was finished or he came, and how the king founded an
abbey where the battle was. Chap. iv.
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