KING ARTHUR: 10 Books of Myths & Tales about the Legendary King of Camelot, The Excalibur, Merlin, Holy Grale Quest, Sir Lancelot & The Brave Knights of the Round Table. Howard Pyle

KING ARTHUR: 10 Books of Myths & Tales about the Legendary King of Camelot, The Excalibur, Merlin, Holy Grale Quest, Sir Lancelot & The Brave Knights of the Round Table

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The Fourteenth Book treateth of the quest of the Sangreal, and containeth x chapters. The Fifteenth Book treateth of Sir Launcelot, and containeth vi chapters. The Sixteenth Book treateth of Sir Bors and Sir Lionel his brother, and containeth xvii chapters. The Seventeenth Book treateth of the Sangreal, and containeth xxiii chapters. The Eighteenth Book treateth of Sir Launcelot and the queen, and containeth xxv chapters. The Nineteenth Book treateth of Queen Guenever and Launcelot, and containeth xiii chapters. The Twentieth Book treateth of the piteous death of Arthur, and containeth xxii chapters. The Twenty-first Book treateth of his last departing, and how Sir Launcelot came to revenge his death, and containeth xiii chapters. The sum is twenty-one books, which contain the sum of five hundred and seven chapters, as more plainly shall follow hereafter.

The Table or Rubrysshe of the Content of Chapters

Table of Contents

1. How Uther Pendragon sent for the duke of Cornwall and Igraine his wife, and of their departing suddenly again.

2. How Uther Pendragon made war on the duke of Cornwall, and how by the mean of Merlin he lay by the duchess and gat Arthur.

3. Of the birth of King Arthur and of his nurture.

4. Of the death of King Uther Pendragon.

5. How Arthur was chosen king, and of wonders and marvels of a sword taken out of a stone by the said Arthur.

6. How King Arthur pulled out the sword divers times.

7. How King Arthur was crowned, and how he made officers.

8. How King Arthur held in Wales, at a Pentecost, a great feast, and what kings and lords came to his feast.

9. Of the first war that King Arthur had, and how he won the field.

10. How Merlin counselled King Arthur to send for King Ban and King Bors, and of their counsel taken for the war.

11. Of a great tourney made by King Arthur and the two kings Ban and Bors, and how they went over the sea.

12. How eleven kings gathered a great host against King Arthur.

13. Of a dream of the King with the Hundred Knights.

14. How the eleven kings with their host fought against Arthur and his host, and many great feats of the war.

15. Yet of the same battle.

16. Yet more 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.

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

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