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how after he was required by a damsel to heal her brother
15 How Sir Lancelot came to the Chapel Perilous and got there a piece of cloth from a dead corpse
16 How Sir Lancelot at the request of a lady recovered a falcon, and how he was deceived
17 How Sir Lancelot overtook a knight who was chasing his wife in order to slay her, and what he said to him
18 How Sir Lancelot came to King Arthur’s court, and how there he recounted all his noble feats and acts
Book VII
1 How Beaumains came to King Arthur’s court and demanded three petitions of Arthur
2 How Sir Lancelot and Sir Gawain were wroth because Sir Kay mocked Beaumains, and of a damsel which desired a knight to fight for a lady
3 How Beaumains desired the battle, and how it was granted to him, and how he desired to be made a knight by Sir Lancelot
4 How Beaumains departed, and how he got from Sir Kay a spear, and how he jousted and fought with Sir Lancelot
5 How Beaumains told to Sir Lancelot his name, and how he was dubbed knight of Sir Lancelot, and after overtook the damsel
6 How Beaumains fought and slew two knights at a passage
7 How Beaumains fought with the Knight of the Black Lands, and fought with him until he fell down and died
8 How the brother of the knight who was slain met with Beaumains and fought with Beaumains until he yielded
9 How the damsel ever rebuked Beaumains, and would not suffer him to sit at her table, but called him “kitchen boy”
10 How the third brother, called the Red Knight, jousted and fought against Beaumains, and how Beaumains overcame him
11 How Sir Beaumains suffered great rebukes of the damsel, and he suffered it patiently
12 How Beaumains fought with Sir Persaunt of India and made him yield
13 Of the goodly communication between Sir Persaunt and Beaumains, and how he told him his name was Sir Gareth
14 How the lady who was besieged had word from her sister how she had brought a knight to fight for her, and what battles he had achieved
15 How the damsel and Beaumains came to the siege, and came to a sycamore tree, and there Beaumains blew a horn, and then the Red Knight of the Red Lands came to fight with him
16 How the two knights met together, and of their talking, and how they began their battle
17 After long fighting Beaumains overcame the knight and would have slain him, but at the request of the lords he saved his life, and made him to yield to the lady
18 How the knight yielded him, and how Beaumains made him go to Arthur’s court and cry mercy of Sir Lancelot
19 How Beaumains came to the lady, and when he came to the castle the gates were closed against him, and of the words the lady said to him
20 How Sir Beaumains rode after to rescue his dwarf, and came to the castle where he was
21 How Sir Gareth, otherwise called Beaumains came to the presence of his lady, and how they took acquaintance, and of their love
22 How at night came an armed knight, and fought with Sir Gareth, and he, sore hurt in the thigh, smote off the knight’s head
23 How the said knight came again the next night and was beheaded again, and how at the feast of Pentecost all the knights that Sir Gareth had overcome came and yielded to King Arthur
24 How King Arthur pardoned them, and demanded of them where Sir Gareth was
25, 26 How the Queen of Orkney came to the feast of Pentecost, and Sir Gawain and his brethren came to ask her blessing
27 How King Arthur sent for the Lady Lyonesse, and how she announced a tournament at her castle, to which many knights came
28 How King Arthur went to the tournament with his knights, and how the lady received him worshipfully, and how the knights encountered
29 How the knights bore themselves in battle
30 Yet of the said tournament
31 How Sir Gareth was espied by the heralds, and how he escaped out of the field
32 How Sir Gareth came to a castle where he was well lodged, and he jousted with a knight and slew him
33 How Sir Gareth fought with a knight that held within his castle thirty ladies, and how he slew him
34 How Sir Gawain and Sir Gareth fought against each other, and how they knew each other by the damsel Lyonette
35 How Sir Gareth acknowledged that they loved each other to King Arthur, and of the appointment of their wedding
36 Of the great royalty, and what officers were made at the feast of the wedding, and of the jousts at the feast
Book VIII
1 How Sir Tristram de Lyones was born, and how his mother died at his birth, wherefore she named him Tristram
2 How the stepmother of Sir Tristram had ordained poison for to have poisoned Sir Tristram
3 How Sir Tristram was sent into France, and had one to govern him named Governale, and how he learned to harp, hunt, and hawk
4 How Sir Marhalt came out of Ireland to ask tribute from Cornwall, or else he would fight therefore
5 How Tristram accepted the battle to fight for the tribute of Cornwall, and how he was made a knight
6 How Sir Tristram arrived into the island for to furnish the battle with Sir Marhalt
7 How Sir Tristram fought against Sir Marhalt and achieved his battle, and how Sir Marhalt fled to his ship
8 How Sir Marhalt after he was arrived in Ireland died of the stroke that Sir Tristram had given to him, and how Sir Tristram was hurt
9 How Sir Tristram was put to the keeping of La Beale Isode for to be healed of his wound
10 How Sir Tristram won the degree at a tournament in Ireland, and caused Sir Palomides to bear no harness for a year
11 How the queen espied that Sir Tristram had slain her brother Sir Marhalt by his sword, and in what jeopardy he was
12 How Sir Tristram departed from the king and La Beale Isode out of Ireland for to come to Cornwall
13 How Sir Tristram and King Mark hurt each other for the love of a knight’s wife
14 How Sir Tristram lay with the lady, how her husband fought with Sir Tristram
15 How Sir Bleoberis demanded the fairest lady in King Mark’s court, whom he took away, and how he was foughten with
16 How Sir Tristram fought with two knights of the Round Table
17 How Sir Tristram fought with Sir Bleoberis for a lady, and how the lady was given a choice as to with whom she would go
18 How the lady forsook Sir Tristram and abode with Sir Bleoberis, and how she desired to go to her husband
19 How King Mark sent Sir Tristram to Ireland for La Beale Isode, and how by fortune he arrived in England
20 How King Anguishaunce of Ireland was summoned to come to King Arthur’s court for treason
21 How Sir Tristram rescued a shield from a knight, and how Governale told him of King Anguishaunce
22 How Sir Tristram fought for Sir Anguishaunce and overcame his adversary, and how his adversary would never yield him
23 How Sir Blamore desired Sir Tristram to slay him, and how Sir Tristram spared him, and how they took appointment
24 How Sir Tristram demanded La Beale Isode for King Mark, and how Sir Tristram and Isode drank the love drink
25 How Sir Tristram and