Romance, Vision & Satire; English Alliterative Poems of the Fourteenth Century
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Sir Knight, I give to thee, 'T is green as this my robe, as thou right well may'st see, Look thou thereon, Gawain, whenas thou forth dost fare, [ lOO 1 Mid many a prince of price, and this for token bear Of chance midst chivalrous knights, that thou didst here abide — And thou, in this New Year with me shalt homeward ride, With me in revel spend the remnant of this tide I ween — ' The lord, he held him fast, Quoth: 'Tho' my wife hath been Your foe, that is well past. Peace be ye twain between!'... XVIII *Nay, forsooth, ' quoth Gawain, he seized his helm full fain, And set it on his head, and thanked his host again; *Sad was my sojourning, yet bliss be yours alway, May He, who ruleth all, right swiftly ye repay. To her, your comely wife, commend me courteously, Yea, and that other dame, honoured they both may be _ Who thus their knight with craft right skilful did beguile — And yet small marvel 't is if one, thro' woman's wile Befooled shall be oft-times, and brought to sorrow sore, For so was he betrayed, Adam, our sire, of yore.
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