Þe kinges chaier is set,
Quene one a chacelet,
Many galiard gret, [folio 8b]
For Gawayne þe gode.
XXXIX.
¶ Gawayne and Galerone gurdene here stedes,
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Al in gleterand golde gay was here gere;
Þe lordes by-lyue hom to list ledes
With many seriant of mace, as was þe manere.
The burnes broched þe blonkes þat þe side bledis.
Ayþer freke opone folde has fastned his spere;
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Shaftes in shide wode þei shindre in shedes;
So iolile þes gentil Iusted one were!
Shaftes þei shindre in sheldes so shene,
And siþene, withe brondes brighte,
Riche mayles þei riȝte;
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There encontres þe kniȝt
With Gawayne one grene.
XL.
Gawyne was gaily graþed in grene,
Withe his Griffons of golde engreled fulle gay,
Trifeled withe tranes, and true loves bitwene;
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On a stargand stede þat strikes one stray,
Þat oþer in his turnaying he talkes in tene:
"Whi drawes þou þe on dreghe, and makes siche deray?"
He swapped him yne at þe swyre, with a swerde kene,
That greued sir Gawayne to his deþ day.
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The dyntes of þat doughety were doutwis by-dene;
Fifte mayles and mo,
The swerde swapt in two
The canel bone also,
And clef his shelde shene.
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