Then was Gawain full glad and gaily he laugh’d; + 

“I thank you for this, before all other things; + 

Since my goal I have gain’d, I agree at your will + 

To dwell here, and do what else ye may deem.” + 

Then drew him that sire to a seat at his side, + 

And let fetch the ladies to like them the better. + 

Much jollity they enjoy’d, those gentles twain, + 

And the lord for his love spoke the leal man so fond + 

As he wist not of his words, like a wight unwitted. + 

Then cried he aloud, as he call’d to the Knight: + 

“Ye have deem’d ye will do the deed that I bid; + 

Will ye promise keep at this present time?” + 

“By my troth, sir, yes,” said the trusty Gawain, + 

“While I bide in your burg, I obey all your bidding.” + 

“Since ye have travell’d,” quoth he, “and toil’d from afar, + 

And have wakèd me wíth, your wants are uncared + 

Both of sleep and of sustenance; soothly I know it. + 

Ye shall lodge in your loft and lie at your ease + 

Tomorrow till mass, and to meat ye shall wend + 

When ye will, with my wife, who with you shall sit + 

And with company comfort, till to court I return; + 

Rest so;⁠— + 

And I shall early rise, + 

A-hunting will I go.” + 

Sir Gawain grants him this, + 

And louts to him full low. + 