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

saw and heard in the tomb, and how he made Melias knight.

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

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

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

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

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

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

       Book XIV

       1. How Sir Percivale came to a recluse and asked 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 that should achieve the Sangreal should be known.

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

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

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

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

       7. Of the vision that Sir Percivale saw, and how his vision was expounded, and of his lion.

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

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

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

       Book XV

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

       2. 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.

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

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

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

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

       Book XVI

       1. How Sir Gawaine was nigh weary of the quest of the Sangreal, and of his marvellous dream.

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

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

       4. How the hermit expounded their advision.

       5. Of the good counsel that the hermit gave to them.

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

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

       8. Of an advision which Sir Bors had that night, and how he fought and overcame his adversary.

       9. 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.

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

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

       13. Of the holy communication of an Abbot to Sir Bors, and how the Abbot counselled him.

       14. How Sir Bors met with his brother Sir