“Why leave ye this lace?” the lady replied; + 

“For its simple semblance? Such it well seems; + 

Look! ’tis but little, and less is its worth; + 

But the virtues who knew that are knitted herein + 

He’d appraise it perchance at a price very high; + 

For the man that is girt with this girdle of green, + 

So long as ’tis firmly fasten’d upon him, + 

There’s no athel under Heaven can hew him to ground, + 

He may not be slain, for sleight upon earth.” + 

Then cast he with care, and it came to his heart, + 

’Twere a jewel for the jeopardy that was him adjudg’d, + 

When he fared to the chapel his fortune to fetch; + 

Might he shun to be slain, ’twere a shift full glorious! + 

And he suffer’d her so, nor her suit hinder’d, + 

And she proffer’d her prize and press’d it again. + 

When he granted, she gave it with a goód wìll + 

And besought him for her sake to discover it never, + 

But leally it hide; and the liege answer’d + 

“Never wight shall it weet, I wis, on this earth + 

but we.” + 

He thank’d her oft again, + 

A grateful man was he: + 

She kiss’d her knight, and then + 

She had giv’n him kisses three. + 