Le Morte DArthur, vol 1 | Page 7

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
Shortly of the First Book of King Arthur.
How Uther Pendragon sent for the duke of Cornwall and Igraine his wife, and of their departing suddenly again. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chap. i. 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Chap. ii. Of the birth of King Arthur and of his nurture . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chap. iii. And of the death of King Uther Pendragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Chap. iv. And how Arthur was chosen king, and of wonders and marvels of a sword taken out of a stone by the said Arthur. . . . . . . . . . . . . Chap. v. How King Arthur pulled out the sword divers times. . . . . . . . . . . . .Chap. vi. How King Arthur was crowned, and how he made officers. . . . . . . . . . Chap. vii. How King Arthur held in Wales, at a Pentecost, a great feast, and what kings and lords came to his feast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Chap. viii. Of the first war that King Arthur had, and how he won the field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Chap. ix. How Merlin counselled King Arthur to send for King Ban and King Bors, and of their counsel taken for the war . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chap. x. Of a great tourney made by King Arthur and the two kings Ban and Bors, and how they went over the sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Chap. xi. How eleven kings gathered a great host against King Arthur . . . . . . . Chap. xii. Of a dream of the King with the Hundred Knights. . . . . . . . . . . . .Chap. xiii.
How the eleven kings with their host fought against Arthur and his host, and many great feats of the war . . Chap. xiv. Yet of the same battle . . . . . Chap. xv. [Yet more of the same battle] . . . . Chap. xvi. Yet more of the said battle, and how it was ended by Merlin Chap. xvii. How King Arthur, King Ban, and King Bors rescued King Leodegrance, and other incidents . . . . Chap. xviii. How King Arthur rode to Carlion, and of his dream, and how he saw the Questing Beast . . . . Chap. xix. How King Pellinore took Arthur's horse and followed the Questing Beast, and how Merlin met with Arthur . . Chap. xx. 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 . . . . . Chap. xxi. How Griflet was made knight, and jousted with a knight Chap. xxii.
How twelve knights came from Rome and asked truage for this land of Arthur, and how Arthur fought with a knight . Chap. xxiii. How Merlin saved Arthur's life, and threw an enchantment on King Pellinore and made him to sleep . . . Chap. xxiv. How Arthur by the mean of Merlin gat Excalibur his sword of the Lady of the Lake . . . . . Chap. xxv. How tidings came to Arthur that King Rience had overcome eleven kings, and how he desired Arthur's beard to trim his mantle Chap. xxvi. How all the children were sent for that were born on May-day, and how Mordred was saved . . . . Chap. xxvii.
The Second Book.
Of a damosel which came girt with a sword for to find a man of such virtue to draw it out of the scabbard . . Chap. i. How Balin, arrayed like a poor knight, pulled out the sword, which afterward was cause of his