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Le Morte d'Arthur/Volume I/Book IV

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3900856Le Morte d'ArthurVolume I, Book IVThomas Malory
Chapters (not listed in original)
  • Chapter I: How Merlin was assotted and doted on one of the ladies of the lake, and how he was shut in a rock under a stone and there died
  • Chapter II: How five kings came into this land to war against King Arthur, and what counsel Arthur had against them
  • Chapter III: How King Arthur had ado with them and overthrew them, and slew the five kings and made the remnant to flee
  • Chapter IV: How the battle was finished or he came, and how King Arthur founded an abbey where the battle was
  • Chapter V: How Sir Tor was made knight of the Round Table, and how Bagdemagus was displeased
  • Chapter VI: How King Arthur, King Uriens, and Sir Accolon of Gaul, chased an hart, and of their marvellous adventures
  • Chapter VII: How Arthur took upon him to fight to be delivered out of prison, and also for to deliver twenty knights that were in prison
  • Chapter VIII: How Accolon found himself by a well, and he took upon him to do battle against Arthur
  • Chapter IX: Of the battle between King Arthur and Accolon
  • Chapter X: How King Arthur's sword that he fought with brake, and how he recovered of Accolon his own sword Excalibur, and overcame his enemy
  • Chapter XI: How Accolon confessed the treason of Morgan le Fays King Arthur's sister, and how she would have done slay him
  • Chapter XII: How Arthur accorded the two brethren, and delivered the twenty knights, and how Sir Accolon died
  • Chapter XIII: How Morgan would have slain Sir Uriens her husband, and how Sir Uwaine her son saved him
  • Chapter XIV: How Queen Morgan le Fay made great sorrow f-or the death of Accolon, and how she stole away the scabbard from Arthur
  • Chapter XV: How Morgan le Fay saved a knight that should have been drowned, and how King Arthur returned home again
  • Chapter XVI: How the Damosel of the Lake saved King Arthur from a mantle which should have burnt him
  • Chapter XVII: How Sir Gawaine and Sir Uwaine met with twelve fair damosels, and how they complained on Sir Marhaus
  • Chapter XVIII: How Sir Marhaus jousted with Sir Gawaine and Sir Uwaine, and overthrew them both
  • Chapter XIX: How Sir Marhaus, Sir Gawaine, and Sir Uwaine met three damosels, and each of them took one
  • Chapter XX: How a knight and a dwarf strove for a lady
  • Chapter XXI: How King Pelleas suffered himself to be taken prisoner because he would have a sight of his lady, and how Sir Gawaine promised him to get to him the love of his lady
  • Chapter XXII: How Sir Gawaine came to the Lady Ettard, and how Sir Pelleas found them sleeping
  • Chapter XXIII: How Sir Pelleas loved no more Ettard by the mean of the Damosel of the Lake, whom he loved ever after
  • Chapter XXIV: How Sir Marhaus rode with the damosel, and how he came to the Duke of the South Marches
  • Chapter XXV: How Sir Marhaus fought with the duke and his four sons and made them to yield them
  • Chapter XXVI: How Sir Uwaine rode with the damosel of sixty year of age, and how he gat the prize at tourneying
  • Chapter XXVII: How Sir Uwaine fought with two knights and overcame them
  • Chapter XXVIII: How at the year's end all three knights with their three damosels met at the fountain