forbore him
13 How Sir Tristram got himself armor from a knight who was hurt, and how he overthrew Sir Palomides
14 How Sir Tristram and Sir Palomides fought long together, and after accorded, and Sir Tristram made him to be christened
Book XIII
1 How at the vigil of Pentecost entered into the hall before King Arthur a damsel who desired Sir Lancelot for to come and dub a knight, and how he went with her
2 How the letters were found written in the Seat Perilous, and of the marvelous adventure of a sword in a stone
3 How Sir Gawain attempted to draw out the sword, and how an old man brought in Galahad
4 How the old man brought Galahad to the Seat Perilous and set him therein, and how all the knights marveled
5 How King Arthur showed the stone floating on the water to Galahad, and how he drew out the sword
6 How King Arthur had all the knights together for to joust in the meadow beside Winchester before they departed
7 How the queen desired to see Galahad; and after, all the knights were replenished with the Holy Grail, and how they all vowed to follow the same quest
8 How great sorrow was made by the king and ladies for the departing of the knights, and how they departed
9 How Galahad got himself a shield, and how they sped who presumed to take down the said shield
10 How Galahad departed with the shield, and how King Evelake had received the shield from Joseph of Arimathea
11 How Joseph made a cross on the white shield with his blood, and how Galahad was brought by a monk to his tomb
12 Of the marvel that Sir Galahad saw and heard in the tomb, and how he made Melias knight
13 Of the adventure that Melias had, and how Galahad avenged him, and how Melias was carried to an abbey
14 How Galahad departed, and how he was commanded to go to the Castle of Maidens to destroy the wicked custom
15 How Sir Galahad fought with the knights of the castle, and destroyed the wicked custom
16 How Sir Gawain came to the abbey for to follow Galahad, and how he was shriven by a hermit
17 How Sir Galahad met with Sir Lancelot and with Sir Perceval, and smote them down, and departed from them
18 How Sir Lancelot, half sleeping and half waking, saw a sick man borne in a litter, and how he was healed by the Holy Grail
19 How a voice spoke to Sir Lancelot, and how he found his horse and helm borne away, and after went afoot
20 How Sir Lancelot was confessed, and what sorrow he made, and of good examples which were showed to him
Book XIV
1 How Sir Perceval came to a recluse and asked her counsel, and how she told him that she was his aunt
2 How Merlin likened the Round Table to the world, and how the knights who would achieve the Holy Grail would be known
3 How Sir Perceval came to a monastery, where he found King Evelake, who was an old man
4 How Sir Perceval saw many men of arms bearing a dead knight, and how he fought against them
5 How a yeoman desired him to get again a horse, and how Sir Perceval’s hackney was slain, and how he got a horse
6 Of the great danger Sir Perceval was in by his horse, and how he saw a serpent and lion fight
7 Of that vision Sir Perceval saw, and how his vision was expounded, and of the lion
8 How Sir Perceval saw a ship coming toward him, and how the lady of the ship told of her disinheritance
9 How Sir Perceval promised her help, and how he required her of love, and how he was saved from the fiend
10 How Sir Perceval for penance wounded himself in the thigh, and how she was known for the devil
Book XV
1 How Sir Lancelot came into a chapel, where he found dead, in a white shirt, a man of religion, a hundred winters old
2 Of a dead man, how men would have hewn him, and it would not be, and how Sir Lancelot took the hairshirt of the dead man
3 Of a vision that Sir Lancelot had, and how he told it to a hermit, and desired counsel of him
4 How the hermit expounded to Sir Lancelot his vision and told him that Sir Galahad was his son
5 How Sir Lancelot jousted with many knights, and he was taken
6 How Sir Lancelot told his vision to a woman, and how she expounded it to him
Book XVI
1 How Sir Gawain was weary of the quest for the Holy Grail, and of his marvelous dream
2 Of the vision of Sir Ector, and how he jousted with Sir Uwain, his sworn brother
3 How Sir Gawain and Sir Ector came to a hermitage to be confessed, and how they told the hermit their visions
4 How the hermit expounded their vision
5 Of the good counsel the hermit gave to them
6 How Sir Bors met with a hermit, and how he was confessed to him, and of the penance enjoined to him
7 How Sir Bors was lodged with a lady, and how he took on him for to fight against a champion for her land
8 Of a vision which Sir Bors had that night, and how he fought and overcame his adversary
9 How the lady had her lands returned to her after the battle of Sir Bors, and of his departing, and how he met Sir Lionel taken and beaten with thorns, and also a maid which should have been devoured
10 How Sir Bors left to rescue his brother, and rescued the damsel; and how it was told to him that Sir Lionel was dead
11 How Sir Bors told his dream that he had dreamed to a priest, and of the counsel the priest gave him
12 How the devil in a woman’s likeness would have had Sir Bors to have lain by her, and how by God’s grace he escaped
13Of the holy communication of an abbot to Sir Bors, and how the abbot counseled him
14 How Sir Bors met with his brother Sir Lionel, and how Sir Lionel would have slain Sir Bors
15 How Sir Colgrevance fought against Sir Lionel to save Sir Bors, and how the hermit was slain
16 How Sir Lionel slew Sir Colgrevance, and how after he would have slain Sir Bors
17 How there came a voice which ordered Sir Bors not to touch him, and of a cloud that came between them
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