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Malory, Thomas, Sir
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.