Now shall I of their service say you no more, + 

For well may ye weet, no wánt was among them. + 

Another note full new was sounded anon, + 

That the folk might have leave to fall to their vittails. + 

But the noise of that note had nó while ceas’d + 

Or the first course in the court full kindly been serv’d, + 

When there flúng in, on foal, a fearsome master, + 

His stature the tallest and stoutest on earth, + 

His body to the waist so broad and so burly, + 

And his loins and his limbs so long and so great, + 

Half giant at first they judg’d he might be, + 

But a man he was truly, the mightiest of mould + 

And the finest of figure that on foal might ride. + 

For of back and of breast his body was big, + 

Yet his waist and his womb were worthily small, + 

And his members, each one, match’d them in measure, + 

full clean. + 

All wonder’d at his hue, + 

And eke his lordly mien; + 

He seem’d bold knight and true, + 

But glow’d all over green. + 