Le Morte D'Arthur, vol 2 by Thomas Malory (hardest books to read TXT) 📖

how he was fed with the Sangreal … Chap. iv.

 

How Sir Bors made Sir Pedivere to yield him, and of marvellous adventures that he had, and how he achieved them Chap. v.

 

How Sir Bors departed; and how Sir Launcelot was rebuked of Queen Guenever, and of his excuse … Chap. vi.

 

How Dame Elaine, Galahad’s mother, came in great estate unto Camelot, and how Sir Launcelot behaved him there Chap. vii.

 

How Dame Brisen by enchantment brought Sir Launcelot to Dame Elaine’s bed, and how Queen Guenever rebuked him Chap. viii.

 

How Dame Elaine was commanded by Queen Guenever to void the court, and how Sir Launcelot became mad . Chap. ix.

 

What sorrow Queen Guenever made for Sir Launcelot, and how he was sought by knights of his kin … Chap. x.

 

How a servant of Sir Aglovale’s was slain, and what vengeance Sir Aglovale and Sir Percivale did therefore . . Chap. xi.

 

How Sir Percivale departed secretly from his brother, and how he loosed a knight bound with a chain, and other doings Chap. xii.

 

How Sir Percivale met with Sir Ector, and how they fought long, and each had almost slain other … Chap. xiii.

 

How by miracle they were both made whole by the coming of the holy vessel of Sangreal … . Chap. xiv.

 

Here follow the Chapters of the Tenth Book How Sir Launcelot in his madness took a sword and fought with a knight, and after leapt into a bed … Chap. i.

 

How Sir Launcelot was carried in an horse litter, and how Sir Launcelot rescued Sir Bliant, his host . . Chap. ii.

 

How Sir Launcelot fought against a boar and slew him, and how he was hurt, and brought to an hermitage . . Chap. iii.

 

How Sir Launcelot was known by Dame Elaine, and was borne into a chamber and after healed by the Sangreal . Chap. iv.

 

How Sir Launcelot, after that he was whole and had his mind, he was ashamed, and how that Elaine desired a castle for him Chap. v.

 

How Sir Launcelot came into the Joyous Isle, and there he named himself Le Chevaler Mal Fet … Chap. vi.

 

Of a great tourneying in the Joyous Isle, and how Sir Percivale and Sir Ector came thither, and Sir Percivale fought with him Chap. vii.

 

How each of them knew other, and of their courtesy, and how his brother Ector came to him, and of their joy . Chap. viii.

 

How Sir Bors and Sir Lionel came to King Brandegore, and how Sir Bors took his son Helin le Blank, and of Sir Launcelot Chap. ix.

 

How Sir Launcelot with Sir Percivale and Sir Ector came to the court, and of the great joy of him … Chap. x.

 

How La Beale Isoud counselled Sir Tristram to go unto the court, to the great feast of Pentecost … Chap. xi.

 

How Sir Tristram departed unarmed and met with Sir Palomides, and how they smote each other, and how Palomides forbare him Chap. xii.

 

How Sir Tristram gat him harness of a knight which was hurt, and how he overthrew Sir Palomides … Chap. xiii.

 

How Sir Tristram and Sir Palomides fought long together, and after accorded, and Sir Tristram made him to be christened Chap. xiv.

 

Here follow the Chapters of the Thirteenth Book 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 . Chap. i.

 

How the letters were found written in the Siege Perilous, and of the marvellous adventure of the sword in a stone . Chap. ii.

 

How Sir Gawaine assayed to draw out the sword, and how an old man brought in Galahad … . Chap. iii.

 

How the old man brought Galahad to the Siege Perilous and set him therein, and how all the knights marvelled . Chap. iv.

 

How King Arthur shewed the stone hoving on the water to Galahad, and how he drew out the sword … Chap. v.

 

How King Arthur had all the knights together for to joust in the meadow beside Camelot or they departed . . Chap. vi.

 

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 … . Chap. vii How great sorrow was made of the king and the queen and ladies for the departing of the knights, and how they departed Chap. viii.

 

How Galahad gat him a shield, and how they sped that presumed to take down the said shield … Chap. ix.

 

How Galahad departed with the shield, and how King Evelake had received the shield of Joseph of Aramathie . Chap. x.

 

How Joseph made a cross on the white shield with his blood, and how Galahad was by a monk brought to a tomb . Chap. xi.

 

Of the marvel that Sir Galahad saw and heard in the tomb, and how he made Melias knight … . Chap. xii.

 

Of the adventure that Melias had, and how Galahad revenged him, and how Melias was carried into an abbey . Chap. xiii.

 

How Galahad departed, and how he was commanded to go to the Castle of Maidens to destroy the wicked custom . Chap. xiv.

 

How Sir Galahad fought with the knights of the castle, and destroyed the wicked custom … . Chap. xv.

 

How Sir Gawaine came to the abbey for to follow Galahad, and how he was shriven to a hermit … Chap. xvi.

 

How Sir Galahad met with Sir Launcelot and Sir Percivale, and smote them down, and departed from them . . Chap. xvii.

 

How Sir Launcelot, half sleeping and half waking, saw a sick man borne in a litter, and how he was healed by the Sangreal Chap. xviii.

 

How a voice spake to Sir Launcelot, and how he found his horse and his helm borne away, and after went afoot . Chap. xix.

 

How Sir Launcelot was shriven, and what sorrow he made, and of good ensamples which were shewed him . . Chap. xx.

 

here follow the Chapters of the Fourteenth Book How Sir Percivale came to a recluse and asked her counsel, and how she told him that she was his aunt . . Chap. i.

 

How Merlin likened the Round Table to the world, and how the knights that should achieve the Sangreal should be known Chap. ii.

 

How Sir Percivale came into a monastery, where he found King Evelake, which was an old man … Chap. iii.

 

How Sir Percivale saw many men of arms bearing a dead knight, and how he fought against them … Chap. iv.

 

How a yeoman desired him to get again an horse, and how Sir Percivale’s hackney was slain, and how he gat an horse. Chap. v.

 

Of the great danger that Sir Percivale was in by his horse, and how he saw a serpent and a lion fight … Chap. vi.

 

Of the advision that Sir Percivale saw, and how his advision was expounded, and of his lion … Chap. vii.

 

How Sir Percivale saw a ship coming to him-ward, and how the lady of the ship told him of her disheritance . . Chap. viii.

 

How Sir Percivale promised her help, and how he required her of love, and how he was saved from the fiend . . Chap. ix.

 

How Sir Percivale for penance rove himself through the thigh; and how she was known for the devil … Chap. x.

 

here follow the Chapters of the Fifteenth Book which is of Sir Launcelot.

 

How Sir Launcelot came into a chapel, where he found dead, in a white shirt, a man of religion, of an hundred winter old . Chap i.

 

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 Chap. ii.

 

Of an advision that Sir Launcelot had, and how he told it to an hermit, and desired counsel of him … Chap. iii.

 

How the hermit expounded to Sir Launcelot his advision, and told him that Sir Galahad was his son… Chap. iv.

 

How Sir Launcelot jousted with many knights, and how he was taken Chap.

v.

 

How Sir Launcelot told his advision to a woman, and how she expounded it to him … . Chap. vi.

 

here follow the Chapters of the Sixteenth Book How Sir Gawaine was nigh weary of the quest of the Sangreal, and of his marvellous dream … . Chap. i.

 

Of the advision of Sir Ector, and how he jousted with Sir Uwaine les Avoutres, his sworn brother … Chap. ii.

 

How Sir Gawaine and Sir Ector came to an hermitage to be confessed, and how they told to the hermit their advisions . Chap. iii.

 

How the hermit expounded their advision . . Chap. iv.

 

Of the good counsel that the hermit gave to them . Chap. v.

 

How Sir Bors met with an hermit, and how he was confessed to him, and of his penance enjoined to him . . Chap. vi.

 

How Sir Bors was lodged with a lady, and how he took upon him for to get against a champion for her land . . Chap. vii.

 

Of a vision which Sir Bors had that night, and how he fought and overcame his adversary … . Chap. viii.

 

How the lady was restored 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 Chap.

ix.

 

How Sir Bors left to rescue his brother, and rescued the damosel and how it was told him that Lionel was dead . Chap. x.

 

How Sir Bors told his dream to a priest, which he had dreamed, and of the counsel that the priest gave to him . . Chap. xi.

 

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 . Chap. xii.

 

Of the holy communication of an abbot to Sir Bors, and how the abbot counselled him … . Chap. xiii.

 

How Sir Bors met with his brother Sir Lionel, and how Sir Lionel would have slain Sir Bors … . Chap. xiv.

 

How Sir Colgrevance fought against Sir Lionel for to save Sir Bors and how the hermit was slain … Chap. xv.

 

How Sir Lionel slew Sir Colgrevance, and how after he would have slain Sir Bors … . . Chap. xvi.

 

How there came a voice which charged Sir Bors to touch him not, and a cloud that came between them . . Chap. xvii.

 

here follow the Chapters of the Seventeenth Book How Sir Galahad fought at a tournament, and how he was known of Sir Gawaine and of Sir Ector de Maris . . Chap. i.

 

How Sir Galahad rode with a damosel, and came to the ship whereas ir Bors

and Sir Percivale were in . . Chap. ii.

 

How Sir Galahad entered into the ship, and of a fair bed therein, with other

marvellous things, and of a sword . . Chap. iii.

 

Of the marvels of the sword and of the scabbard . Chap. iv.

 

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