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CHAPTER XXXIII. How Sir Tristram smote down Sir Palomides, and how he
jousted with King Arthur, and other feats.

CHAPTER XXXIV. How Sir Launcelot hurt Sir Tristram, and how after Sir
Tristram smote down Sir Palomides.

CHAPTER XXXV. How the prize of the third day was given to Sir Launcelot,
and Sir Launcelot gave it to Sir Tristram.

CHAPTER XXXVI. How Palomides came to the castle where Sir Tristram was,
and of the quest that Sir Launcelot and ten knights made for Sir
Tristram.

CHAPTER XXXVII. How Sir Tristram, Sir Palomides, and Sir Dinadan were
taken and put in prison.

CHAPTER XXXVIII. How King Mark was sorry for the good renown of Sir
Tristram. Some of King Arthur's knights jousted with knights of
Cornwall.

CHAPTER XXXIX. Of the treason of King Mark, and how Sir Gaheris smote
him down and Andred his cousin.

CHAPTER XL. How after that Sir Tristram, Sir Palomides, and Sir Dinadan
had been long in prison they were delivered.

CHAPTER XLI. How Sir Dinadan rescued a lady from Sir Breuse Saunce Pite,
and how Sir Tristram received a shield of Morgan le Fay.

CHAPTER XLII. How Sir Tristram took with him the shield, and also how he
slew the paramour of Morgan le Fay.

CHAPTER XLIII. How Morgan le Fay buried her paramour, and how Sir
Tristram praised Sir Launcelot and his kin.

CHAPTER XLIV. How Sir Tristram at a tournament bare the shield that
Morgan le Fay delivered to him.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

THE Morte D'Arthur was finished, as the epilogue tells us, in the ninth
year of Edward IV., i.e. between March 4, 1469 and the same date in
1470. It is thus, fitly enough, the last important English book written
before the introduction of printing into this country, and since no
manuscript of it has come down to us it is also the first English
classic for our knowledge of which we are entirely dependent on a
printed text. Caxton's story of how the book was brought to him and he
was induced to print it may be read farther on in his own preface. From
this we learn also that he was not only the printer of the book, but
to some extent its editor also, dividing Malory's work into twenty-one
books, splitting up the books into chapters, by no means skilfully,
and supplying the "Rubrish" or chapter-headings. It may be added that
Caxton's preface contains, moreover, a brief criticism which, on the
points on which it touches, is still the soundest and most sympathetic
that has been written.

Caxton finished