Le Morte d'Arthur (Complete 21 Book Edition). Thomas Malory

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       1. 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.

       2. How the Knights of the Round Table were ordained and their sieges blessed by the Bishop of Canterbury.

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

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

       5. How at 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.

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

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

       8. How four knights fought against Gawaine and Gaheris, and how they were overcome, and their lives saved at 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 one at the first stroke.

       13. How King Pellinore gat 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 by night in a valley, and of their adventures.

       15. How when he was come 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 slew the five kings and made the remnant to flee.

       4. How the battle was finished or he came, and how King Arthur founded an abbey where the battle was.

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

       6. How King Arthur, King Uriens, and Sir Accolon of Gaul, chased an hart, and of their marvellous adventures.

       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.

       9. Of the battle between King Arthur and Accolon.

       10. How King Arthur’s sword that he fought with brake, and how he recovered of Accolon his own sword Excalibur, and overcame his enemy.

       11. How Accolon confessed the treason of Morgan le Fay, King Arthur’s sister, and how she would have done slay him.

       12. How Arthur accorded the two brethren, and delivered the twenty knights, and how Sir Accolon died.

       13. How Morgan would have slain Sir Uriens her husband, and how Sir Uwaine her son saved him.

       14. How Queen Morgan le Fay made great sorrow for the death of Accolon, and how she stole away the scabbard from Arthur.

       15. How Morgan le Fay saved a knight that should have been drowned, and how King Arthur returned home again.

       16. How the Damosel of the Lake saved King Arthur from mantle that should have burnt him.

       17. How Sir Gawaine and Sir Uwaine met with twelve fair damosels, and how they complained on Sir Marhaus.

       18. How Sir Marhaus jousted with Sir Gawaine and Sir Uwaine, and overthrew them both.

       19. How Sir Marhaus, Sir Gawaine, and Sir Uwaine met three damosels, and each of them took one.

       20. How a knight and a dwarf strove for a lady.

      

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