[Sidenote: Arthur beholds the peril of the field, and sends Sir Ywan to help them,] King arthur, that al this whill beheld The dang{er} and the p{er}ell of the feld, S{ir} ywan w{i}t{h} o falowſchip he ſende, Them In that ned to help & to defend, 2688 Qwich fond them In to danger and in were, [Fol. 33b.] And ent{er}it nere In to thar tentis were. [Sidenote: who finds Sir Gawane fighting on foot with only his sword.] S{ir} gawan fechtand was one fut At erde, And no defend, but only in his ſwerde, 2692 Aȝanis them bot{h} w{i}t{h} ſpere and ſcheld. Of galowa the kny{ch}t goith to the erde.[T62] [Footnote T62: Read “felde”?] [Headnote: SIR YWAN RESCUES GAWANE.] [Sidenote: The battle was furious and wood.] Thar was the batell furyous and woud[T63] Of armyt kny{ch}t{is}; to the grownde thai ȝhud. 2696 S{ir} ywane, that was a noble knyght, He ſchew his ſtrenth, he ſchew thar h{is} g{r}et my{ch}t, In al his tyme that neu{er} of before Off armys, nore of kny{ch}thed, did he more: 2700 [Sidenote: Sir Ywan rescues Sir Gawane,] S{ir} gawan thar reſkewit he of fors, Magre his fois, and haith hyme ſet one horß That frome the firſt {con}queſt king he wañ; [Sidenote: who was so evilly wounded, that he was the worse thereof evermore.] Bot ſ{ir} gawan ſo ewill was wondit than, 2704 And in the feld ſupp{ri}ſit was ſo ſore, That he the werß thar-of was eu{er}more. Thar ſchew the lord ſ{ir} ywan h{is} curage, His manhed, & h{is} noble waſſolage; 2708 And gawan, in his doing, wald no{ch}t irk; [Footnote T63: MS. “woid,” but the “_i_” is undotted, and is therefore perhaps meant for the first stroke of a “_u_.”] [Headnote: END OF THE FIRST DAY’S BATTLE.]