THE BOOK OF KING ARTHUR
Foreword
Prologue
Illustrations
The Story of King Arthur
PART I. THE WINNING OF KINGHOOD
Chapter First. How Sir Kay did Combat in a Great Tournament at London Town And of How He Brake His Sword. Likewise, How Arthur Found a New Sword For Him
Chapter Second. How Arthur Twice Performed the Miracle of the Sword Before Sir Ector and of How His Birthright Was Discovered Unto Him
Chapter Third. How Several Kings and High Dukes Assayed to Draw the Sword Out of the Anvil and How They Failed. Likewise How Arthur Made The Assay and Succeeded Therein
Conclusion
PART II. THE WINNING OF A SWORD
Chapter First. How There Came a Certain Wounded Knight Unto the Court of King Arthur, How a Young Knight of the King's Court Sought To Avenge Him and Failed and How the King Thereupon Took That Assay Upon Himself
Chapter Second. How King Arthur Fought With the Sable Knight and How He Was Sorely Wounded. Likewise How Merlin Brought Him Safe Away From the Field of Battle
Chapter Third. How King Arthur Found a Noble Sword In a Very Wonderful Manner. And How He Again Fought With It and Won That Battle
PART III. THE WINNING OF A QUEEN
Chapter First. How King Arthur Went to Tintagalon with Four of His Court, and How He Disguised Himself for a Certain Purpose
Chapter Second. How King Ryence Came to Cameliard and How King Arthur Fought With the Duke of North Umber
Chapter Third. How King Arthur Encountered Four Knights and of What Befell Thereby
Chapter Fourth. How the Four Knights Served the Lady Guinevere
Chapter Fifth. How King Arthur Overcame the Enemies of King Leodegrance, and How His Royalty Was Proclaimed
Chapter Sixth. How King Arthur Was Wedded in Royal State and How the Round Table Was Established
Conclusion
THE BOOK OF THREE WORTHIES
Foreword
Prologue
PART I. THE STORY OF MERLIN
Chapter First. How Queen Morgana le Fay Meditated Evil Against King Arthur and How She Sent a Damsel to Beguile the Enchanter, Merlin
Chapter Second. How Merlin Journeyed With Vivien Unto the Valley of Joyousness and How He Builded for Her a Castle at That Place. AIso, How He Taught Her the Wisdom of Magic and of How She Compassed His Downfall Thereby
Chapter Third. How Queen Morgana le Fay Returned to Camelot and to the Court With lntent to Do Ill to King Arthur. Also How King Arthur and Others Went a-Hunting and of What Befell Thereby
Chapter Fourth. What Befell Sir Accalon, and How King Arthur Fought an Affair-at-Arms With Swords, and How He Came Nigh to Losing His Life Thereby
Conclusion
PART II. THE STORY OF SIR PELLIAS
Chapter First. How Queen Guinevere Went a-Maying and of How Sir Pellias Took Upon Him a Quest in Her Behalf
Chapter Second. How Sir Pellias Overcame a Red Knight, Hight Sir Adresack, and of How He Liberated XXII Captives From That Knight's Castle
Chapter Third. How Sir Pellias Did Battle With Sir Engamore, Otherwise the Knight of the Green Sleeves, and of What Befell the Lady Ettard
Chapter Fourth. How Queen Guinevere Quarrelled With Sir Gawaine, and How Sir Gawaine Left the Court of King Arthur For a While
Chapter Fifth. How Sir Gawaine Met Sir Pellias and How He Promised to Aid Him With the Lady Ettard
Chapter Sixth. How the Lady of the Lake Took Back Her Necklace From Sir Pellias
PART III. THE STORY OF SIR GAWAINE
Chapter First. How a White Hart Appeared Before King Arthur, and How Sir Gawaine and Gaheris, His Brother, Went in Pursuit Thereof, and of What Befell Them in That Quest
Chapter Second. How King Arthur Became Lost in the Forest, and How He Fell Into a Very Singular Adventure in a Castle Unto Which He Came
Chapter Third. How King Arthur Overcame the Knight-Enchanter, and How Sir Gawaine Manifested the High Nobility of His Knighthood
Conclusion
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