Wild ways in the world now wanders Sir Gawain, + 

For the gift of his life he had gotten again; + 

Oft he harbour’d in house, and out-of-doors often, + 

Had adventures in vale and victories many, + 

That I intend not today to tell you in story. + 

He was heal’d of the hurt that he had on his neck; + 

And the gleaming belt he bore thereabout, + 

Like a baldric, slantwise, bound by his side, + 

Loop’d in a knot, his left arm beneath, + 

As a symbol of the sin that he was seiz’d in. + 

Thus came the good Knight, all sound, to the Court; + 

There was weal in that wone when wist it the King, + 

Wist that Gawain was come; goód news he thought it. + 

First kiss’d him of all the King and the Queen, + 

Then many a sickar knight sought to salute him, + 

And of his wayfare would weet: all the wonders he told them, + 

The haps and the hardships he had on his way, + 

The chance of the chapel, the cheer of the knight, + 

The love of the lady, and the lace at the last. + 

The cut ’neath his collar discover’d he then, + 

That the lord of the land for unlealty him gave, + 

for blame. + 

In anguish did he speak, + 

He groan’d for grief and shame, + 

The blood blent in his cheek, + 

For the blot upon his name. + 