[A] "Lo! lorde," quod þe leude, & þe lace hondeled, "Þis is þe bende of þis blame I bere [in] my nek, Þis is þe laþe & þe losse, þat I la3t haue, 2508 [B] Of couardise & couetyse, þat I haf ca3t þare, Þis is þe token of vn-trawþe, þat I am tan inne, [C] & I mot nede3 hit were, wyle I may last; For non may hyden his harme, bot vnhap ne may hit, 2512 For þer hit one3 is tachched, twynne wil hit neuer." [D] Þe kyng comforte3 þe kny3t, & alle þe court als, La3en loude þer-at, & luflyly acorden, Þat lordes & ladis, þat longed to þe Table, 2516 [E] Vche burne of þe broþer-hede a bauderyk schulde haue, A bende, a belef hym aboute, of a bry3t grene, [F] & þat, for sake of þat segge, in swete to were. For þat wat3 acorded þe renoun of þe Rounde Table, 2520 [G] & he honoured þat hit hade, euer-more after, As hit is breued in þe best boke of romaunce. [H] Þus in Arthurus day þis aunter bitidde, Þe Brutus bokees þer-of beres wyttenesse; 2524 Syþen Brutus, þe bolde burne, bo3ed hider fyrst, After þe segge & þe asaute wat3 sesed at Troye, I-wysse; Mony auntere3 here bi-forne, 2528 Haf fallen suche er þis: [I] Now þat bere þe croun of þorne, He bryng vus to his blysse! AMEN. [Sidenote A: "Lo!" says he, handling the lace, "this is the band of blame,] [Sidenote B: a token of my cowardice and covetousness,] [Sidenote C: I must needs wear it as long as I live."] [Sidenote D: The king comforts the knight, and all the court too.] [Sidenote E: Each knight of the brotherhood agrees to wear a bright green belt,] [Sidenote F: for Gawayne's sake,] [Sidenote G: who ever more honoured it.] [Sidenote H: Thus in Arthur's day this adventure befell.] [Sidenote I: He that bore the crown of thorns bring us to His bliss!] * * * * * NOTES. Line 8 Ricchis turns, goes, The king ... Ricchis his reynys and the Renke metys: Girden to gedur with þere grete speires.--T.B. l. 1232. 37 Þis kyng lay at Camylot vpon kryst-masse. Camalot, in Malory's "Morte Arthure," is said to be the same as Winchester. Ritson supposes it to be Caer-went, in Monmouthshire, and afterwards confounded with Caer-wynt, or Winchester. But popular tradition here seems the best guide, which assigned the site of Camalot to the ruins of a castle on a hill, near the church of South Cadbury, in Somersetshire (Sir F. Madden). 65 Nowel nayted o-newe, neuened ful ofte. Christmas celebrated anew, mentioned full often. Sir F. Madden leaves the word nayted unexplained in his Glossary to "Syr Gawayne." 124 syluener = sylueren, i.e. silver dishes. 139 lyndes = lendes, loins. 142 in his muckel, in his greatness.