Now bestirs him Sir Gawain and steps to his mass, + 

And then dinner was dight, and daintily served. + 

He laik’d with the ladies the livelong day, + 

While the lord over laund launces full often + 

Pursuing his swine, that swung by the banks + 

And of the best of his bratches the backs bit in sunder + 

Where he bode at the bay, till the bowmen him shifted + 

And máde him máuger his héad to move to the open; + 

So many shafts flew, where the fólk him beset. + 

Yet the stoutest at whiles to start did he make, + 

Till so daunted and fordone, he could dree it no more, + 

But as hard as he might made off to a hole, + 

On a bank, by a rock, with the burn beside it; + 

There, the bank at his back, to scrape he began + 

With the froth at his chops foaming for fierceness, + 

And his white tusks whetted; they wounded him still, + 

Those bowmen so bold, about him that stood, + 

Till awearied they were, yet they would not him near, + 

so wroth. + 

For many his thrusts had borne, + 

Well seemèd all were loth + 

Be more with tusks betorn; + 

He was fierce and frenzied both. + 