LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

[The Marriage of King Arthur]
[Then fell Sir Ector down upon his knees upon the ground before young Arthur, and Sir Key also with him.]
[The Lady of the Lake]
[The giant sat at supper, gnawing on a limb of a man, and baking his huge frame by the fire]
[The castle rocked and rove throughout, and all the walls fell crashed and breaking to the earth]
[Came forth twelve fair damsels, and saluted King Arthur by his name]
[Prianius was christened, and made a duke and knight of the Round Table]
[Sir Lancelot smote down with one spear five knights, and brake the backs of four, and cast down the King of Northgales]
[Beyond the chapel, he met a fair damsel, who said, “Sir Lancelot, leave that sword behind thee, or thou diest”]
[“Lady,” replied Sir Beaumains, “a knight is little worth who may not bear with a damsel”]
[So he rode into the hall and alighted]
[Then they began the battle, and tilted at their hardest against each other]
[And running to her chamber, she sought in her casket for the piece of iron ... and fitted it in Tristram’s sword]
[By the time they had finished drinking they loved each other so well that their love never more might leave them]
[Waving her hands and muttering the charm, and presently enclosed him fast within the tree]
[Galahad ... quickly lifted up the stone, and forthwith came out a foul smoke]
[“This girdle, lords,” said she, “is made for the most part of mine own hair, which, while I was yet in the world, I loved full well”]
[At last the strange knight smote him to the earth, and gave him such a buffet on the helm as wellnigh killed him]
[Then was Sir Lancelot sent for, and the letter read aloud by a clerk]
[But still the knights cried mightily without the door, “Traitor, come forth!”]