I. Prosper le Gai rides out
II. Morgraunt, and A dead
knight
III. Holy thorn and holy
church
IV. Dom Galors
V. La desirous
VI. The virgin marriage
VII. Galors abjures
VIII. The sally at dawn
IX. The blood-chase and
the love chase
X. Forest alms
XI. Sanctuary
XII. Broken sanctuary
XIII. High march, and A great
lady
XIV. A recorder
XV. Three at Tortsentier
XVI. Boy and girl
XVII. Roy
XVIII. Boy’s love
XIX. Lady’s love
XX. How prosper held A review
XXI. How the narrative smacks
again of the soil
XXII Galors CONQUAESTOR
XXIII. Falve the charcoal-burner
XXIV. Secret things at Hauterive
XXV. The road to Goltres
XXVI. Guess-work at Goltres
XXVII. Galors rides hunting
XXVIII. Mercy with the beasts.
XXIX. Wanmeeting cries, ‘ha!
Saint James!’
XXX. The chained virgin of
saint thorn
XXXI. ‘Entra per me’
XXXII ‘bide the time’
XXXIII. Salomon is driven home
XXXIV. La Desiree
XXXV. Forest love
XXXVI. The lady Pietosa de
Breaute
PROSPER LE GAI RIDES OUT
My story will take you into times and spaces alike
rude and uncivil. Blood will be spilt, virgins
suffer distresses; the horn will sound through woodland
glades; dogs, wolves, deer, and men, Beauty and the
Beasts, will tumble each other, seeking life or death
with their proper tools. There should be mad
work, not devoid of entertainment. When you read
the word Explicit, if you have laboured so far,
you will know something of Morgraunt Forest and the
Countess Isabel; the Abbot of Holy Thorn will have
postured and schemed (with you behind the arras);
you will have wandered with Isoult and will know why
she was called La Desirous, with Prosper le Gai, and
will understand how a man may fall in love with his
