For the head in his hand he holds up aright, + 

Toward the dukes on the dais he dresses the face, + 

And it lifts up its lids, and looks with its eyes, + 

And moots with its mouth as much as this speech: + 

“See, Gawain, thou be graith to go as thou said’st + 

And as faithfully seek, good friend, till thou find me, + 

As in hall thou didst promise, in these athels’ hearing. + 

To the Green Chapel fare, I charge thee, to fetch + 

Such a dint as thou dealtest, the due that thou owest + 

To be presently paid at New-Year by prime. + 

Men know me as Knight of the Green Chapel: + 

So to find, if thou seek, failest thou never. + 

Wherefore come, or coward behoves thee be call’d.” + 

With a roar and a rout the reins did he turn, + 

Flung oút at the háll-door, his head in his hand. + 

And the flint-sparks flew from his fóal’s hòoves. + 

Whither he went no wight of them knew, + 

Any more than they wist from whence he was come: + 

What then? + 

The King and Gawain there + 

At the green one laugh’d and gren; + 

Yet all must it declare + 

A marvel among men. + 