came to a chapel, where he found dead, in a white shirt, a man of religion, of an hundred winter old.
2. Of a dead man, how men would have hewn him, and it would not be, and how Sir Launcelot took the hair of the dead man.
3. Of an advision that Sir Launcelot had, and how he told it to an hermit, and desired counsel of him.
4. How the hermit expounded to Sir Launcelot his advision, and told him that Sir Galahad was his son.
5. How Sir Launcelot jousted with many knights, and how he was taken.
6. How Sir Launcelot told his advision to a woman, and how she expounded it to him.
Book XVI
1. How Sir Gawaine was nigh weary of the quest of the Sangreal, and of his marvellous dream.
2. Of the advision of Sir Ector, and how he jousted with Sir Uwaine les Avoutres, his sworn brother.
3. How Sir Gawaine and Sir Ector came to an hermitage to be confessed, and how they told to the hermit their advisions.
4. How the hermit expounded their advision.
5. Of the good counsel that the hermit gave to them.
6. How Sir Bors met with an hermit, and how he was confessed to him, and of his penance enjoined to him.
7. How Sir Bors was lodged with a lady, and how he took upon him for to fight against a champion for her land.
8. Of an advision which Sir Bors had that night, and how he fought and overcame his adversary.
9. How the lady was returned to her lands by the battle of Sir Bors, and of his departing, and how he met Sir Lionel taken and beaten with thorns, and also of a maid which should have been devoured.
10. How Sir Bors left to rescue his brother, and rescued the damosel; and how it was told him that Lionel was dead.
11. How Sir Bors told his dream to a priest, which he had dreamed, and of the counsel that the priest gave to him.
12. How the devil in a woman’s likeness would have had Sir Bors to have lain by her, and how by God’s grace he escaped.
13. Of the holy communication of an Abbot to Sir Bors, and how the Abbot counselled him.
14. How Sir Bors met with his brother Sir Lionel, and how Sir Lionel would have slain Sir Bors.
15. How Sir Colgrevance fought against Sir Lionel for to save Sir Bors, and how the hermit was slain.
16. How Sir Lionel slew Sir Colgrevance, and how after he would have slain Sir Bors.
17. How there came a voice which charged Sir Bors to touch him not, and of a cloud that came between them.
Book XVII
1. How Sir Galahad fought at a tournament, and how he was known of Sir Gawaine and Sir Ector de Maris.
2. How Sir Galahad rode with a damosel, and came to the ship whereas Sir Bors and Sir Percivale were in.
3. How Sir Galahad entered into the ship, and of a fair bed therein, with other marvellous things, and of a sword.
4. Of the marvels of the sword and of the scabbard.
5. How King Pelles was smitten through both thighs because he drew the sword, and other marvellous histories.
6. How Solomon took David’s sword by the counsel of his wife, and of other matters marvellous.
7. A wonderful tale of King Solomon and his wife.
8. How Galahad and his fellows came to a castle, and how they were fought withal, and how they slew their adversaries, and other matters.
9. How the three knights, with Percivale’s sister, came unto the same forest, and of an hart and four lions, and other things.
10. How they were desired of a strange custom, the which they would not obey; wherefore they fought and slew many knights.
11. How Sir Percivale’s sister bled a dish full of blood for to heal a lady, wherefore she died; and how that the body was put in a ship.
12. How Galahad and Percivale found in a castle many tombs of maidens that had bled to death.
13. How Sir Launcelot entered into the ship where Sir Percivale’s sister lay dead, and how he met with Sir Galahad, his son.
14. How a knight brought unto Sir Galahad a horse, and bade him come from his father, Sir Launcelot.
15. How Sir Launcelot was tofore the door of the chamber wherein the Holy Sangreal was.
16. How Sir launcelot had lain four-and-twenty days and as many nights as a dead man, and other divers matters.
17. How Sir
