for-sake,
Þat is larges & lewte, þat longe3 to kny3te3.
[J] Now am I fawty, & falce, & ferde haf ben euer;
Of trecherye & vn-trawþe boþe bityde sor3e
2384 & care!
[K] I bi-knowe yow, kny3t, here stylle, [Fol. 123.]
Al fawty is my fare,
Lete3 me ouer-take your wylle,
2388 & efle I schal be ware.”

[Sidenote A:  For my weed (woven by my wife) thou wearest.] [Sidenote B:  I know thy kisses and my wife’s wooing.] [Sidenote C:  I sent her to try thee, and faultless I found thee.] [Sidenote D:  But yet thou sinnedst a little,] [Sidenote E:  for love of thy life.”] [Sidenote F:  Gawayne stands confounded.] [Sidenote G:  “Cursed,” he says, “be cowardice and covetousness both!”] [Sidenote H:  Then he takes off the girdle and throws it to the knight.] [Sidenote I:  He curses his cowardice,] [Sidenote J:  and confesses himself to have been guilty of untruth.] [Sidenote K:  ]

XVII.

[A] Thenne lo3e þat oþer leude, & luflyly sayde,
“I halde hit hardily[1] hole, þe harme þat I hade;
[B] Þou art confessed so clene, be-knowen of þy mysses,
2392 & hat3 þe penaunce apert, of þe poynt of myn egge,
[C] I halde þe polysed of þat ply3t, & pured as clene,
As þou hade3 neuer forfeted, syþen þou wat3 fyrst borne.
[D] & I gif þe, sir, þe gurdel þat is golde hemmed;
2396 For hit is grene as my goune, sir G:, 3e maye
Þenk vpon þis ilke þrepe, þer þou forth þrynge3
Among prynces of prys, & þis a pure token
[E] Of þe chaunce of þe grene chapel, at cheualrous kny3te3;
2400 [F] & 3e schal in þis nwe 3er a3ayn to my wone3,
& we schyn reuel þe remnaunt of þis ryche fest,
ful bene.” 
Þer laþed hym fast þe lorde,
2404 & sayde, “with my wyf, I wene,
We schal yow wel acorde,
Þat wat3 your enmy kene.”

[Sidenote A:  Then the other, laughing, thus spoke:] [Sidenote B:  “Thou art confessed so clean,] [Sidenote C:  that I hold thee as pure as if thou hadst never been guilty.] [Sidenote D:  I give thee, sir, the gold-hemmed girdle,] [Sidenote E:  as a token of thy adventure at the Green Chapel.] [Sidenote F:  Come again to my abode, and abide there for the remainder of
  the festival.”]
[Footnote 1:  hardilyly, in Ms.]

XVIII.

[A] “Nay, for soþe,” quod þe segge, & sesed hys helme,
2408 & hat3 hit of hendely, & þe haþel þonkke3,
[B] “I haf soiorned sadly, sele yow bytyde,
& he 3elde hit yow 3are, þat 3arkke3 al menskes!
[C] & comaunde3 me to þat cortays, your comlych fere,
2412 Boþe þat on & þat oþer, myn honoured ladye3. 
Þat þus hor kny3t wyth hor kest han koyntly bigyled.
[D] Bot hit is no ferly, þa3 a fole madde,
& þur3 wyles of wymmen be wonen to sor3e;
2416 [E] For so wat3 Adam in erde with one bygyled,
& Salamon with fele sere, & Samson eft sone3,
Dalyda dalt hym hys wyrde, & Dauyth þer-after
Wat3 blended with Barsabe, þat much bale