“Nay, for sooth,” the Knight said (and seizing his helmet, + 

He doff’d it for courtesy, and kindly him thank’d) + 

“O’erlong have I wonèd: may weal you betide + 

From the Athel on High that all honour ordains! + 

Greet me with courtesy your comely consort, + 

Both the one and the other my honour’d ladies, + 

That bewiled with their wit the unwary Gawain. + 

’Tis in faith no marvel if a fool go mad, + 

And by wiles of women to sorrow be won; + 

For of old was Adam by óne beguiled, + 

And Solomon by sundry; and Samson eftsoons⁠— + 

Dalilah dealt him his weird, and David thereafter + 

Was blinded by Báthsheba, and had bale very much. + 

All wasted by women! ’Twere a win unmeasured + 

To love and believe not, if leal man but could: + 

For thése were of náme the nóblest, and knew prosperity + 

Above all others, that were ever on earth + 

bemused, + 

Yet they were all bewiled + 

By women that they used: + 

If I be now beguiled + 

Shall I not be excused?” + 