Sir Thomas Malory

INTRODUCTION. Of Malory and his Morte dJArthur, and the wider field of romance into which the book leads us, so much has been abstrusely written in the last four or five years, that the simple critic, delighting in the thing for its own sake, had needs hesitate where so many of authority have...

BookX CHAPTER 1: How Sir Tristram jousted, and smote down King Arthur, because he told him not the cause why he bare that shield 'And if so be ye can descrive what ye bear, ye are worthy to bear the arms.' 'As for that,' said Sir Tristram, 'I will answer you: this shield was given me, not...