SIR THOMAS MALORY'S HISTORY
OF
KING ARTHUR AND HIS KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE
EDITED FOR BOYS
BY
SIDNEY LANIER
ILLUSTRATED BY N. C. WYETH
Copyright by Charles Scribner's Sons
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1929
Copyright, 1880, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
Copyright, 1908, 1922, by
MARY DAY LANIER
Copyright, 1917, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
Printed in the United States of America
In this edition of Mr. Lanier's classic "Boy's King Arthur" omissionhas been made of some minor passages and introductory matter—all thegreater tales, those of Arthur, Launcelot, Tristram, Gareth, Galahad,Percival, and the Holy Grail, being retained.
| BOOK I | Of King Arthur |
| BOOK II | Of Sir Launcelot du Lake |
| BOOK III | Of Sir Gareth of Orkney |
| BOOK IV | Of Sir Tristram |
| BOOK V | Of Sir Galahad and Sir Percival, and the Quest of the Holy Grail |
| BOOK VI | Of the Fair Maid of Astolat |
| BOOK VII | Of the Death of Arthur |
And when they came to the sword that the hand held, King Arthur took it up
"I am Sir Launcelot du Lake, King Ban's son of Benwick, and knight of the Round Table"
And lived by fruit and such as he might get
The lady Lyoness ... had the dwarf in examination
"They fought with him on foot more than three hours, both before him and behind him"
King Mark slew the noble knight Sir Tristram as he sat harping before his lady la Belle Isolde
Sir Mador's spear brake all to pieces, but the other's spear held
He rode his way with the queen unto Joyous Gard
Then Sir Launcelot saw her visage, but he wept not greatly, but sighed
OF KING ARTHUR
It befell in the days of the noble Utherpendragon, when he was King ofEngland, [that there was born to him a son who in after time was KingArthur. Howbeit the boy knew not he was the king's son. For when he wasbut a babe] the king commanded two knights and two ladies to take thechild bound in rich cloth of gold, "and deliver him to what poor manyou meet at the postern gate of the castle." So the child was deliveredunto Merlin, and so he bare it forth unto Sir Ector, and made an holyman to christen him, and named him Arthur; and so Sir Ector's wifenourished him. Then within two years King Uther fell sick of a greatmalady; [and thereof he died]. Then stood the realm in great [danger] along while, for every lord made him strong, and many weened [thought]to have been king. [And so, by Merlin's counsel, all the lords ofEngland came together in the greatest church of London on Christmasmorn before it was day, to see if God would not show by some mir