Of the third day’s hunting 61 How the lady came for the third time to Sir Gawain 62 The lady would fain have a parting gift from Gawain 64 She would give him her ring 65 Or her girdle 65 The virtue of the girdle 66 How Sir Gawain took the girdle 67 The death of the fox 68 How Sir Gawain kept not all the covenant 69 How Sir Gawain took leave of his host 71 IV 72 The robing of Sir Gawain 73 How Sir Gawain went forth from the castle 74 The squire’s warning 75 Of the knight of the Green Chapel 76 Sir Gawain is none dismayed 77 The finding of the chapel 79 The coming of the Green Knight 80 How Sir Gawain failed to stand the blow 81 Of the Green Knight’s reproaches 82 How the Green Knight dealt the blow 83 Of the three covenants 84 The shame of Sir Gawain 85 How Sir Gawain would keep the girdle 87 How the marvel was wrought 88 How Sir Gawain came again to Camelot 89 Sir Gawain makes confession of his fault 90 The knights wear the lace in honour of Gawain 90 The end of the tale 91 Notes 93 I [Illustration: Illustrated drop-cap] Of the making of Britain After the siege and the assault of Troy, when that burg was destroyed and burnt to ashes, and the traitor slain for his treason, the noble Æneas and his kin sailed forth to become princes and patrons of well-nigh all the Western Isles. Thus Romulus built Rome (and gave to the city his own name, which it bears even to this day); and Ticius turned him to Tuscany; and Langobard raised him up dwellings in Lombardy; and Felix Brutus sailed far over the French flood, and founded the kingdom of Britain, wherein have been war and waste and wonder, and bliss and bale, oft-times since.