to Queen Guinevere, with other matters, and containeth 15 chapters.  The fourth book how Merlin was assotted, and of war made to King Arthur, and containeth 29 chapters.  The fifth book treateth of the conquest of Lucius the emperor, and containeth 12 chapters.  The sixth book treateth of Sir Lancelot and Sir Lionel, and marvellous adventures, and containeth 18 chapters.  The seventh book treateth of a noble knight called Sir Gareth, and named by Sir Kay ‘Beaumains,’ and containeth 36 chapters.  The eighth book treateth of the birth of Sir Tristram the noble knight, and of his acts, and containeth 41 chapters.  The ninth book treateth of a knight named by Sir Kay, ‘Le cote mal tailie,’ and also of Sir Tristram, and containeth 44 chapters.  The tenth book treateth of Sir Tristram, and other marvellous adventures, and containeth 83 chapters.  The eleventh book treateth of Sir Lancelot and Sir Galahad, and containeth 14 chapters.  The twelfth book treateth of Sir Lancelot and his madness, and containeth 14 chapters.  The thirteenth book treateth how Galahad came first to King Arthur’s court, and the quest how the Sangreal was begun, and containeth 20 chapters.  The fourteenth book treateth of the quest of the Sangreal, and containeth 10 chapters.  The fifteenth book treateth of Sir Lancelot, and containeth 6 chapters.  The sixteenth book treateth of Sir Boris and Sir Lionel his brother, and containeth 17 chapters.  The seventeenth book treateth of the Sangreal, and containeth 23 chapters.  The eighteenth book treateth of Sir Lancelot and the Queen, and containeth 25 chapters.  The nineteenth book treateth of Queen Guinevere, and Lancelot, and containeth 13 chapters.  The twentieth book treateth of the piteous death of Arthur, and containeth 22 chapters.  The twenty-first book treateth of his last departing, and how Sir Lancelot came to revenge his death, and containeth 13 chapters.  The sum is 21 books, which contain the sum of five hundred and seven chapters, as more plainly shall follow hereafter.

ENEYDOS (1490)

PROLOGUE

After divers work made, translated, and achieved, having no work in hand, I sitting in my study whereas lay many divers pamphlets and books, happened that to my hand came a little book in French, which lately was translated out of Latin by some noble clerk of France, which book is named Aeneidos, made in Latin by that noble poet and great clerk, Virgil Which book I saw over, and read therein how, after the general destruction of the great Troy, Aeneas departed, bearing his old father Anchises upon his shoulders, his little son Iulus on his hand, his wife with much other people following, and how he shipped and departed, with all the history of his adventures that he had ere he came to the achievement of his conquest of Italy, as all along shall be shewed in his present book.  In which book I had great pleasure because of the