[Sidenote: The king replies,]
“Now,” q{uod} the king, “I fell that the ſupport
Of yhour conſell haith don me ſich comfort, 2132
[Sidenote: that his heart is eased from fear;]
Of euery raddour my hart is In to eß,
To ȝhour {com}mand, god will, y ſal obeß.
Bot o thing is yneuch wn to me,
[Sidenote: but inquires if Galiot will win over the red knight,
and what is his name.]
How galiot makith his awant that he 2136
Shall have the kny{ch}t, that only by his honde
And manhed, was defendour of my londe;
If that ſhall fall y pray yhow tellith me,
And quhat he hecht, and of quhat lond is hee?” 2140
“What that he hecht yow ſhall no fory{er} know,
[Sidenote: The master evades reply.]
His dedis ſall her-eft{er}wart hyme ſchaw;
Bot {con}trar the he ſhall be found no way.
No more thar-of as now y will the ſay.”[T50] 2144
With that the king haith at his maiſtir tone [Fol. 27a.]
[Sidenote: The king and the host return home.]
His leve, one to to his cuntre for to goñe;
And al the oſt makith none abyde,
To paſſing home anone thei can p{ro}wid; 2148
And to ſ{ir} gawane thei haith o lytt{er} maad,
Ful ſore ywound, and hyme on w{i}t{h} them haade.
[Footnote T50: At the bottom of the page is the catch-word,
“With that the king.”]
[T]he king, as that the ſtory can declar,
[Sidenote: The king sojourns twenty-four days at Cardole, in Wales.]
Paſſith to o Cete that was Right fair, 2152
And clepit cardole, In to walis, was,
For that tyme than It was the n{er}eſt place,
And thar he ſoiornyt xxiiijti days
In ryall feſting, as the auttore ſays. 2156
So diſcretly his puple he haith cherit,
That he thar hartis holy haith {con}querit.
[Sidenote: Sir Gawan is healed in fifteen days.]
And ſ{ir} gawan, helyt holl and ſound
Be xv dais he was of euery wounde; 2160
Right blyt{h} therof in to the court war thei.
[Headnote: ARTHUR AGAIN BECOMES MOURNFUL.]
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