“In good faith,” said Gawain, “may God you reward! + 

Great is the glee, and the game to me huge + 

That so worthy as you should win to my chamber, + 

Take pains with a poor man, and play with your knight + 

With any kind of count’nance; it comforts me much. + 

But to take up that task, and true love expound + 

(Touching the text and the tales of romance) + 

To you that, I wot well, wield more of skill + 

In that art, by the half, than a hundred of such + 

As I am, or shall e’er be, on earth while I live, + 

’Twere a manifold folly, my fair, on my troth. + 

But your bidding I’ll do to the best of my might, + 

As I am highly beholden, and ever I bind me + 

To be soothly your servant, so save me the Almighty.” + 

Thus in talk did she try him and tempt him full oft, + 

To win him to woo her, whate’er she ween’d else, + 

But he defended so fair that no fault might appear, + 

Nor evil on either part, nor aught did they know + 

but bliss. + 

They laugh’d and had their play; + 

At last she did him kiss, + 

Made sign to wend her way, + 

And took her leave, I wis. + 