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

of the same battle.

       17. Yet more of the same battle, and how it was ended by Merlin.

       18. How King Arthur, King Ban, and King Bors rescued King Leodegrance, and other incidents.

       19. How King Arthur rode to Carlion, and of his dream, and how he saw the questing beast.

       20. How King Pellinore took Arthur’s horse and followed the Questing Beast, and how Merlin met with Arthur.

       21. How Ulfius impeached Queen Igraine, Arthur’s mother, of treason; and how a knight came and desired to have the death of his master revenged.

       22. How Griflet was made knight, and jousted with a knight

       23. How twelve knights came from Rome and asked truage for this land of Arthur, and how Arthur fought with a knight.

       24. How Merlin saved Arthur’s life, and threw an enchantment on King Pellinore and made him to sleep.

       25. How Arthur by the mean of Merlin gat Excalibur his sword of the Lady of the Lake.

       26. How tidings came to Arthur that King Rience had overcome eleven kings, and how he desired Arthur’s beard to trim his mantle.

       27. How all the children were sent for that were born on May-day, and how Mordred was saved.

       Book II

       1. Of a damosel which came girt with a sword for to find a man of such virtue to draw it out of the scabbard.

       2. How Balin, arrayed like a poor knight, pulled out the sword, which afterward was the cause of his death.

       3. How the Lady of the Lake demanded the knight’s head that had won the sword, or the maiden’s head.

       4. How Merlin told the adventure of this damosel.

       5. How Balin was pursued by Sir Lanceor, knight of Ireland, and how he jousted and slew him.

       6. How a damosel, which was love to Lanceor, slew herself for love, and how Balin met with his brother Balan.

       7. How a dwarf reproved Balin for the death of Lanceor, and how King Mark of Cornwall found them, and made a tomb over them.

       8. How Merlin prophesied that two the best knights of the world should fight there, which were Sir Lancelot and Sir Tristram.

       9. How Balin and his brother, by the counsel of Merlin, took King Rience and brought him to King Arthur.

       10. How King Arthur had a battle against Nero and King Lot of Orkney, and how King Lot was deceived by Merlin, and how twelve kings were slain.

       11. Of the interment of twelve kings, and of the prophecy of Merlin, and how Balin should give the dolorous stroke.

       12. How a sorrowful knight came before Arthur, and how Balin fetched him, and how that knight was slain by a knight invisible.

       13. How Balin and the damosel met with a knight which was in likewise slain, and how the damosel bled for the custom of a castle.

       14. How Balin met with that knight named Garlon at a feast, and there he slew him, to have his blood to heal therewith the son of his host.

       15. How Balin fought with King Pellam, and how his sword brake, and how he gat a spear wherewith he smote the dolorous stroke.

       16. How Balin was delivered by Merlin, and saved a knight that would have slain himself for love.

       17. How that knight slew his love and a knight lying by her, and after, how he slew himself with his own sword, and how Balin rode toward a castle where he lost his life.

       18. How Balin met with his brother Balan, and how each of them slew other unknown, till they were wounded to death.

       19. How Merlin buried them both in one tomb, and of Balin’s sword.

       Book III

       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