Extracts
from Le Morte D'Arthur
by Sir Thomas Malory Knt
Then was there one that Sir Launcelot had sent unto that place for to espy what time the
queen should go unto her death; and anon as he saw the queen despoiled into her smock, and
so shriven, then he gave Sir Launcelot warning. Then was there but spurring and plucking
up of horses, and right so they came to the fire. And who that stood against them, there
were they slain; there might none withstand Sir Launcelot, so all that bare arms and
withstood them, there were they slain, full many a noble knight. For there was slain Sir
Belliance le Orgulous, Sir Segwarides, Sir Griflet, Sir Brandiles, Sir Aglovale, Sir Tor;
Sir Gauter, Sir Gillimer, Sir Reynolds' three brethren; Sir Damas, Sir Priamus, Sir Kay
the Stranger, Sir Driant, Sir Lambegus, Sir Herminde; Sir Pertilope, Sir Perimones, two
brethren that were called the Green Knight and the Red Knight. And so in this rushing and
hurling, as Sir Launcelot thrang here and there, it mishapped him to slay Gaheris and Sir
Garerth, the noble knight, for they were unarmed and unware.