Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 2 by Sir Thomas Malory (reading rainbow books .TXT) 📖

was sought by knights of his kin. CHAPTER XI. How a servant of Sir Aglovale’s was slain, and what vengeance Sir Aglovale and Sir Percivale did therefore. CHAPTER XII. How Sir Pervivale departed secretly from his brother, and how he loosed a knight bound with a chain, and of other doings. CHAPTER XIII. How Sir Percivale met with Sir Ector, and how they fought long, and each had almost slain other. CHAPTER XIV. How by miracle they were both made whole by the coming of the holy vessel of Sangreal.

BOOK XII. CHAPTER I. How Sir Launcelot in his madness took a sword and fought with a knight, and leapt in a bed. CHAPTER II. How Sir Lancelot was carried in an horse litter, and how Sir Launcelot rescued Sir Bliant, his host. CHAPTER III. How Sir Launcelot fought against a boar and slew him, and how he was hurt, and brought unto an hermitage. CHAPTER IV. How Sir Launcelot was known by Dame Elaine, and was borne into a chamber and after healed by the Sangreal. CHAPTER V. How Sir Launcelot, after that he was whole and had his mind, he was ashamed, and how that Elaine desired a castle for him. CHAPTER VI. How Sir Launcelot came into the joyous Isle, and there he named himself Le Chevaler Mal Fet. CHAPTER VII. Of a great tourneying in the Joyous Isle, and how Sir Pervivale and Sir Ector came thither, and Sir Percivale fought with him. CHAPTER VIlI. How each of them knew other, and of their great courtesy, and how his brother Sir Ector came unto him, and of their joy. CHAPTER IX. How Sir Bors and Sir Lionel came to King Brandegore, and how Sir Bors took his son Helin le Blank, and of Sir Launcelot. CHAPTER X. How Sir Launcelot with Sir Percivale and Sir Ector came to the court, and of the great joy of him. CHAPTER XI. How La Beale Isoud counselled Sir Tristram to go unto the court, to the great feast of Pentecost. CHAPTER XII. How Sir Tristram departed unarmed and met with Sir Palomides, and how they smote each other, and how Sir Palomides forbare him. CHAPTER XIII. How that Sir Tristram gat him harness of a knight which was hurt, and how he overthrew Sir Palomides. CHAPTER XIV. How Sir Tristram and Sir Palomides fought long together, and after accorded, and how Sir Tristram made him to be christened.

BOOK XIII. CHAPTER I. How at the vigil of the Feast of Pentecost entered into the hall before King Arthur a damosel, and desired Sir Launcelot for to come and dub a knight, and how he went with her. CHAPTER II. How the letters were found written in the Siege Perilous and of the marvellous adventure of the sword in a stone. CHAPTER III. How Sir Gawaine assayed to draw out the sword, and how an old man brought in Galahad. CHAPTER IV. How the old man brought Galahad to the Siege Perilous and set him therein, and how all the knights marvelled. CHAPTER V. How King Arthur shewed the stone hoving on the water to Galahad, and how he drew out the sword. CHAPTER VI. How King Arthur had all the knights together for to joust in the meadow beside Camelot or they departed. CHAPTER VII. How the queen desired to see Galahad; and how after, all the knights were replenished with the Holy Sangreal, and how they avowed the enquest of the same. CHAPTER VIII. How great sorrow was made of the king and the queen and ladies for the departing of the knights, and how they departed. CHAPTER IX. How Galahad gat him a shield, and how they sped that presumed to take down the said shield. CHAPTER X. How Galahad departed with the shield, and how King Evelake had received the shield of Joseph of Aramathie. CHAPTER XI. How Joseph made a cross on the white shield with his blood, and how Galahad was by a monk brought to a tomb. CHAPTER XII. Of the marvel that Sir Galahad saw and heard in the tomb, and how he made Melias knight. CHAPTER XIII. Of the adventure that Melias had, and how Galahad revenged him, and how Melias was carried into an abbey. CHAPTER XIV. How Sir Galahad departed, and how he was commanded to go to the Castle of Maidens to destroy the wicked custom. CHAPTER XV. How Sir Galahad fought with the knights of the castle, and destroyed the wicked custom. CHAPTER XVI. How Sir Gawaine came to the abbey for to follow Galahad, and how he was shriven to a hermit. CHAPTER XVII. How Sir Galahad met with Sir Launcelot and Sir Percivale, and smote them down, and departed from them. CHAPTER XVIII. How Sir Launcelot, half sleeping and half waking, saw a sick man borne in a litter, and how he was healed with the Sangreal. CHAPTER XIX. How a voice spake to Sir Launcelot, and how he found his horse and his helm borne away, and after went afoot. CHAPTER XX. How Sir Launcelot was shriven, and what sorrow he made and of the good ensamples which were shewed him.

BOOK XIV. CHAPTER I. How Sir Percivale came to a recluse and asked counsel, and how she told him that she was his aunt. CHAPTER II. How Merlin likened the Round Table to the world, and how the knights that should achieve the Sangreal should be known. CHAPTER III. How Sir Percivale came into a monastery, where he found King Evelake, which was an old man. CHAPTER IV. How Sir Percivale saw many men of arms bearing a dead knight, and how he fought against them. CHAPTER V. How a yeoman desired him to get again an horse, and how Sir Percivale’s hackney was slain, and how he gat an horse. CHAPTER VI. Of the great danger that Sir Percivale was in by his horse, and how he saw a serpent and a lion fight. CHAPTER VII. Of the vision that Sir Percivale saw, and how his vision was expounded, and of his lion. CHAPTER VIII. How Sir Percivale saw a ship coming to him-ward, and how the lady of the ship told him of her disheritance. CHAPTER IX. How Sir Percivale promised her help, and how he required her of love, and how he was saved from the fiend. CHAPTER X. How Sir Percivale for penance rove himself through the thigh; and how she was known for the devil.

BOOK XV. CHAPTER I. How Sir Launcelot came to a chapel, where he found dead, in a white shirt, a man of religion, of an hundred winter old. CHAPTER II. Of a dead man, how men would have hewn him, and it would not be, and how Sir Launcelot took the hair of the dead man. CHAPTER III. Of an advision that Sir Launcelot had, and how he told it to an hermit, and desired counsel of him. CHAPTER IV. How the hermit expounded to Sir Launcelot his advision, and told him that Sir Galahad was his son. CHAPTER V. How Sir Launcelot jousted with many knights, and how he was taken. CHAPTER VI. How Sir Launcelot told his advision to a woman, and how she expounded it to him.

BOOK XVI. CHAPTER I. How Sir Gawaine was nigh weary of the quest of the Sangreal, and of his marvellous dream. CHAPTER II. Of the advision of Sir Ector, and how he jousted with Sir Uwaine les Avoutres, his sworn brother. CHAPTER III. How Sir Gawaine and Sir Ector came to an hermitage to be confessed, and how they told to the hermit their advisions. CHAPTER IV. How the hermit expounded their advision. CHAPTER V. Of the good counsel that the hermit gave to them. CHAPTER VI. How Sir Bors met with an hermit, and how he was confessed to him, and of his penance enjoined to him. CHAPTER VII. How Sir Bors was lodged with a lady, and how he took upon him for to fight against a champion for her land. CHAPTER VIII. Of an advision which Sir Bors had that night, and how he fought and overcame his adversary. CHAPTER IX. How the lady was returned to her lands by the battle of Sir Bors, and of his departing, and how he met Sir Lionel taken and beaten with thorns, and also of a maid which should have been devoured. CHAPTER X. How Sir Bors left to rescue his brother, and rescued the damosel; and how it was told him that Lionel was dead. CHAPTER XI. How Sir Bors told his dream to a priest, which he had dreamed, and of the counsel that the priest gave to him. CHAPTER XII. 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. CHAPTER XIII. Of the holy communication of an Abbot to Sir Bors, and how the Abbot counselled him. CHAPTER XIV. How Sir Bors met with his brother Sir Lionel, and how Sir Lionel would have slain Sir Bors. CHAPTER XV. How Sir Colgrevance fought against Sir Lionel for to save Sir Bors, and how the hermit was slain. CHAPTER XVI. How Sir Lionel slew Sir Colgrevance, and how after he would have slain Sir Bors. CHAPTER XVII. How there came a voice which charged Sir Bors to touch him not, and of a cloud that came between them.

BOOK XVII. CHAPTER I. How Sir Galahad fought at a tournament, and how he was known of Sir Gawaine and Sir Ector de Maris. CHAPTER II. How Sir Galahad rode with a damosel, and came to the ship whereas Sir Bors and Sir Percivale were in. CHAPTER III. How Sir Galahad entered into the ship, and of a fair bed therein, with other marvellous things, and of a sword. CHAPTER IV. Of the marvels of the sword and of the scabbard. CHAPTER V. How King Pelles was smitten through both thighs because he drew the sword, and other marvellous histories. CHAPTER VI. How Solomon took David’s sword by the counsel of his wife, and of other matters marvellous. CHAPTER VII. A wonderful tale of King Solomon and his wife. CHAPTER VIII. How Galahad and his fellows came to a castle, and how they were fought withal, and how they slew their adversaries, and other matters. CHAPTER IX. How the three knights, with Percivale’s sister, came unto the same forest, and of an hart and four lions, and other things. CHAPTER X. How they were desired of a strange custom, the which they would not obey; wherefore they fought and slew many knights. CHAPTER XI. How Sir Percivale’s sister bled a dish full of blood for to heal a lady, wherefore she died; and how that the body was put in a ship. CHAPTER XII. How Galahad and Percivale found in a castle many tombs of maidens that had bled to death. CHAPTER XIII. How Sir Launcelot entered into the ship where Sir Percivale’s sister lay dead, and how he met with Sir Galahad, his son. CHAPTER XIV. How a knight brought unto Sir Galahad a horse, and bade him come from his father, Sir Launcelot. CHAPTER XV. How Sir Launcelot was to-fore the door of the chamber wherein the Holy Sangreal was. CHAPTER XVI. How Sir launcelot had lain four-and-twenty days and as many nights as a dead man, and other divers matters. CHAPTER XVII. How Sir Launcelot returned towards Logris, and of other adventures which he saw in the way. CHAPTER XVIII. How Galahad came to King Mordrains, and of other matters and adventures. CHAPTER XIX. How Sir Percivale and Sir Bors met with Sir Galahad, and how they came to the castle of Carbonek, and other matters. CHAPTER XX How Galahad and his fellows were fed of the Holy Sangreal, and how Our Lord appeared to them, and other things. CHAPTER XXI. How Galahad anointed with the blood of the spear the