[Sidenote A:  Gawayne rises, hears mass, and then dines.] [Sidenote B:  Meanwhile the lord pursues the wild boar,] [Sidenote C:  that bit the backs of his hounds asunder,] [Sidenote D:  and caused the stiffest of the hunters to start.] [Sidenote E:  The boar runs into a hole in a rock by the side of a brook.] [Sidenote F:  The froth foams at his mouth.] [Sidenote G:  None durst approach him,] [Sidenote H:  so many had he torn with his tusks.] [Footnote 1:  til (?).] [Footnote 2:  madee, in Ms.] [Footnote 3:  fomed (?).] [Footnote 4:  þo3t (?).]

XVIII.

[A] Til þe kny3t com hym-self, kachande his blonk,
Sy3 hym byde at þe bay, his burne3 bysyde,
[B] He ly3tes luflych[1] adoun, leue3 his corsour,
1584 Brayde3 out a bry3t bront, & bigly forth stryde3,
Founde3 fast þur3 þe forth, þer þe felle byde3,
[C] Þe wylde wat3 war of þe wy3e with weppen in honde,
Hef hy3ly þe here, so hetterly he fnast,
1588 Þat fele ferde for þe freke3,[2] lest felle hym þe worre;
[D] Þe swyn sette3 hym out on þe segge euen,
Þat þe burne & þe bor were boþe vpon hepe3,
In þe wy3t-est of þe water, þe worre hade þat oþer;
1592 [E] For þe mon merkke3 hym wel, as þay mette fyrst,
Set sadly þe scharp in þe slot euen,
[F] Hit hym vp to þe hult, þat þe hert schyndered,
& he 3arrande hym 3elde, & 3edoun[3] þe water,
1596 ful tyt;
A hundreth hounde3 hym hent, [Fol. 112b.]
[G] Þat bremely con hym bite,
Burne3 him bro3t to bent,
1600 & dogge3 to dethe endite.

[Sidenote A:  The knight, seeing the boar at bay,] [Sidenote B:  alights from his horse,] [Sidenote C:  and seeks to attack him with his sword.] [Sidenote D:  The “swine sets out” upon the man,] [Sidenote E:  who, aiming well,] [Sidenote F:  wounds him in the pit of the stomach.] [Sidenote G:  The boar is soon bitten to death by a hundred hounds.] [Footnote 1:  Ms. luslych.] [Footnote 2:  freke (?).] [Footnote 3:  3ede doun (?).]

XIX.

[A] There wat3 blawyng of prys in mony breme home,
He3e halowing on hi3e, with haþele3 þat my3t;
[B] Brachetes bayed þat best, as bidden þe maystere3,
1604 Of þat chargeaunt chace þat were chef huntes.
[C] Þenne a wy3e þat wat3 wys vpon wod crafte3,
To vnlace þis bor lufly bigynne3;
[D] Fyrst he hewes of his hed, & on hi3e sette3,
1608 & syþen rende3 him al roghe bi þe rygge after,
[E] Brayde3 out þe boweles, brenne3 hom on glede,
With bred blent þer-with his braches rewarde3;
Syþen he britne3 out þe brawen in bry3t brode [s]chelde3,
1612 [F] & hat3 out þe hastlette3, as hi3tly biseme3;
[G] & 3et hem halche3 al hole þe halue3 to-geder,
& syþen on a stif stange stoutly hem henges. 
Now with þis ilk swyn þay swengen to home;
1616 [H] Þe bores hed wat3 borne bifore þe burnes seluen,
Þat him for-ferde in þe forþe, þur3 forse of his honde,
so stronge;
Til he se3 sir Gawayne,
1620 In halle hym þo3t ful longe,
[I] He calde, & he com gayn,
His fee3 þer for to fonge.