Dustcover
Frontispiece
How Arthur drew his sword Excalibur for the first time
The first edition was published 1917
So the child was delivered to Merlin
How by her subtle working she made Merlin to go under the stone to let her wit of the marvels there:
and she wrought so there for him that he came never out for all the craft he could do.
How Queen Morgan le Fay stole away the scabbard from Arthur
When she saw she must be overtaken, she shaped herself, horse and man, by enchantment unto a great marble stone
How Sir Launcelot slew the knight Sir Peris de Forest Savage that did distress ladies, damosels, and gentlewomen
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How Beaumains defeated the Red Knight, and always the damosel spake many foul words unto him
Sir Beaumains espied upon great trees how there hung full goodley armed knights by the neck
How Dame Lionesse came forth arrayed like a princess
How Tristram and Isoud drank the love drink
Dagonet, King Arthur's fool
How Tristram was known by the little brachet in the garden of King Mark's Castle
How at a great feast that King Mark made came Eliot the harper and sang the lay that Dinadan had made
The Questing Beast
How Sir Launcelot fought with a fiendly dragon
How at the Castle of Corbin a maiden bare in the Sangreal and foretold the achievements of Galahad
They saw on the other side a lady with a sperhawk on her hand
How Galahad drew out the sword from the floating stone at Camelot
How King Arthur and Queen Guenever went to see the barge that bore the corpse of Elaine the Fair Maiden of Astolat
How Sir Launcelot was shot by a gentlewoman hunting
How Queen Guenever rode a-Maying into the woods and fields beside Westminster
Sir Mordred went and laid a mighty siege about the Tower of London, and shot great guns
How Mordred was slain by Arthur and how by him Arthur was hurt to the death
