“But your girdle!” said Gawain, “may God you reward! + 

I shall wear it with a will, not for winsome gold, + 

Or the ceinture of silk, or the swinging pendants, + 

Nor for wealth or for worship, or the wondrous embroid’ries, + 

But a symbol of my sinning I shall see in it oft + 

When I ride in renown, and rue to myself + 

Of the fault and the frailty of sinful flesh, + 

How tender to take any touch of defilement! + 

And if pride e’er prick me for prowess of arms, + 

To heed to this lace will humble my heart. + 

But one thing I pray you, an’t please you, Sir Knight, + 

Since ye’re lord of this land, where I lodged at mine ease + 

In your wone, with worship⁠—and reward you may He + 

That upholds the heavens and on hígh sìts!⁠— + 

By what name are ye known? and I shall nó more ask.” + 

“I will say you the sooth,” then said the Green Knight, + 

“Bercilac of Hígh-Desert I hight in my home. + 

It was Morgan la Fay, in my meiny that lives, + 

And the might of her magic that moved me to seek you. + 

The mysteries of Merlin full many has she learnt; + 

For once on a day she had dealing in druery + 

With that wizardly clerk, and she knows all your knights: + 

Dread dame! + 

Morgan, the goddess high⁠— + 

Therefore it is her name; + 

No knight so proud goes by + 

But she his pride can tame. + 