With mirth and with minstrelsy, with meats at their will, + 

They made as merry as any men might + 

Save they were doting mad or drunk had been else; + 

What with laughing of ladies and lightsome jest, + 

Gawain and the goodman, full glad were they both. + 

And the meiny also many japes made, + 

Till was come the season when sever they must, + 

And to busk them to bed behoved them at last. + 

Then lowly his leave of the lord took Gawain, + 

Goodly him greeted and graciously thank’d; + 

“For the happy sojourn I have had in this hall, + 

And the honour of the high feast, the High King reward you! + 

I make me your man, to your mind if it be, + 

For needs múst, as ye know, I move on the morrow, + 

And the promis’d squire ye shall send to escort me + 

To the Green Chapel, as God will me suffer + 

To dree on that day the doom of my weird.” + 

“In God’s name,” said the goodman, “with a góod wìll + 

Shall I áll perform, that ever I offer’d.” + 

Then assigns he a servant to set him i’ the way, + 

And conduct him by the downs (lest dole him befall), + 

And the forest track, where through frith he should fare, + 

to show. + 

Gawain to thank was fain + 

For the kindness he would do; + 

Then of those ladies twain + 

He took his leave also. + 