Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur. Sir Thomas Malory

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      15 Yet of the same battle

      16 More of the same battle

      17 Yet more of the same battle, and how Merlin ended it

      18 How King Arthur, King Ban, and King Bors rescued King, Leodegranz and other incidents

      19 How Arthur rode to Caerleon, had a dream, and saw the Questing Beast

      20 How King Pellinore took Arthur’s horse and followed the Questing Beast, and how Merlin met with Arthur

      21 How Ulphius accused Queen Igraine of treason, and how a knight came desiring to avenge the death of his master

      22 How Grifflet was knighted and jousted with a knight

      23 How twelve knights came from Rome and asked Arthur for tribute for his lands, and how Arthur fought with a knight

      24 How Merlin saved Arthur’s life and threw an enchantment on King Pellinore that caused him to sleep

      25 How by Merlin’s means Arthur got his sword Excalibur from the Lady of the Lake

      26 How tidings came to Arthur that King Rience had overcome eleven kings, and how he desired Arthur’s beard to decorate his mantle

      27 How all the children were sent for that were born on May-day, and how Mordred was saved

      Book II

      1 Of a damsel who came girt with a sword to find a man of such virtue he could pull it out of the scabbard

      2 How Balin, arrayed like a poor knight, pulled out the sword, which afterward was the cause of his death

      3 How the Lady of the Lake demanded the knight’s head who had won the sword, or the maiden’s head

      4 How Merlin told the adventure of a damsel

      5 How Balin was pursued by Sir Lanceor, a knight of Ireland, and how he jousted and slew him

      6 How a damsel, who was Lanceor’s lover, killed herself for love, and how Balin met with his brother Balan

      7 How a dwarf reproved Balin for the death of Lanceor, and how King Mark of Cornwall found them, and made a tomb over them

      8 How Merlin prophesied that two of the best knights of the world would fight there: Sir Lancelot and Sir Tristram

      9 How Balin and his brother, by the counsel of Merlin, took King Rience and brought him to King Arthur

      10 How King Arthur had a battle against King Nero and King Lot of Orkney, and how King Lot was deceived by Merlin, and how twelve kings were slain

      11 Of the interment of twelve kings, and of the prophecy of Merlin how Balin should give the Dolorous Stroke

      12 How a sorrowful knight came before Arthur, and how Balin fetched him, and how that knight was slain by a knight invisible

      13 How Balin and the damsel met with a knight who was likewise slain, and how the damsel bled for the custom of the castle

      14 How Balin met that knight named Garlon at a feast, and there he slew him to have his blood to heal the son of his host

      15 How Balin fought with King Pellam, and how his sword broke, and how he got a spear wherewith he smote the Dolorous Stroke

      16 How Balin was delivered by Merlin, and saved a knight who would have slain himself for love

      17 How that knight slew his love and a knight lying by her, and after, how he slew himself with his own sword, and how Balin rode toward a castle where he lost his life

      18 How Balin met with his brother Balan, and how each of them slew the other unknown, till they were wounded to death

      19 How Merlin buried them both in one tomb, and of Balin’s sword

      Book III

      1 How King Arthur took a wife, and wedded Guenevere, daughter to King Leodegranz, king of the land of Camelard, from whom he had the Round Table

      2 How the knights of the Round Table were ordained and their seats blessed by the Archbishop of Canterbury

      3 How a poor man riding upon a lean mare desired of King Arthur to make his son a knight

      4 How Sir Tor was known for a son of King Pellinore, and how Gawain was made a knight

      5 How at the feast of the wedding of King Arthur to Guenevere, a white hart came into the hall, and thirty pairs of hounds, and how a brachet pinched the hart which was taken away

      6 How Sir Gawain rode for to fetch again the hart, and how two brethren fought against each other for the hart

      7 How the hart was chased into a castle and there slain, and how Gawain slew a lady

      8 How four knights fought against Sir Gawain and Gaheris, and how they were overcome, and their lives saved at the request of four ladies

      9 How Sir Tor rode after the knight with the brachet, and of his adventure by the way

      10 How Sir Tor found the brachet with a lady, and how a knight assailed him for the said brachet

      11 How Sir Tor overcame the knight, and how he lost his head at the request of a lady

      12 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 first one at the first stroke

      13 How King Pellinore got the lady and brought her to Camelot to the court of King Arthur

      14 How on the way he heard two knights, as he lay in a vale and of other adventures

      15 How when he came to Camelot he was sworn upon a book to tell the truth of his quest

      Book IV

      1 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

      2 How five kings came into this land to war against King Arthur, and what counsel Arthur had against them

      3 How King Arthur had ado with them and overthrew them, and and slew the five kings and made the remnant to flee

      4 How the battle was finished before he came, and how the king founded an abbey where the battle was

      5 How Sir Tor was made a knight of the Round Table, and how Bagdemagus was displeased

      6 How King Arthur, King Uriens, and Sir Accolon of Gaul chased a hart, and of their marvelous adventure

      7 How Arthur took upon him to fight to be delivered out of prison, and also for to deliver twenty knights that were in prison

      8 How Accolon found himself by a well, and he took upon him to do battle against Arthur

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