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Book One
The Prologues

Chapter Nine
Of the first war that King Arthur had, and how he won the field.

King Arthur left his tower wearing a gown, over his jesseraunt, which is a short body armor protecting the person’s chest and back. With him rode the Archbishop of Canterbury, Sir Baudwin of Britain, Sir Kay, and Sir Brastias. These four were the men of most worship for King Arthur. When they were met, there was no shyness, only heavy words from both sides. When the two groups of men departed, they left in anger. Despite the intense emotions, King Arthur wished the men good luck, and those men wished King Arthur good luck as well. So then, King Arthur returned to his tower and dressed himself and his knights for battle.

Merlin asked the kings, “What will you do? You were better off stopping; you should not succeed here though you are 10 times bigger.”

King Lot mocked Merlin, “Shall we be afeared to listen to a dream-reader?”

With all of that said, Merlin vanished and went to see King Arthur encouraging him to fight fiercely.

Meanwhile, 300 good men, the best of those who were with the kings went straight to ally with King Arthur. Merlin said, “Sir, do not fight with the sword that you received by a miracle, if all else fails, then you can draw it out and do your best.” As they went into battle, Sir Baudwin, Sir Kay, and Sir Brastias were on both the right and left hand side, while King Arthur was always on horseback with his sword in hand. He did marvelous deeds with his sword and many of the kings had much appreciation of his deeds and hardiness.

Then, King Lot broke out behind them. The King and the hundred knights, and King Carados set out to fight King Arthur. Arthur and the Kings turned around to meet new assault and fought until his horse was slain underneath him. King Lot got in a heavy blow to King Arthur. After this, the four men that were with him set him on horseback. It was then; Arthur drew out his sword, Excalibur. It was so bright to his enemies that it appeared as thirty torches. He fought brilliantly, driving them back until Merlin came up to Arthur and advised him to no longer follow them.

Written by Erin Tofanelli, Class of ‘08