[Sidenote A:  Wild ways now Gawayne rides.] [Sidenote B:  Oft he harboured in house and oft thereout.] [Sidenote C:  The wound in his neck became whole.] [Sidenote D:  He still carried about him the belt,] [Sidenote E:  in token of his fault.] [Sidenote F:  Thus he comes to the Court of King Arthur.] [Sidenote G:  Great then was the joy of all.] [Sidenote H:  The king and his knights ask him concerning his journey.] [Sidenote I:  Gawayne tells them of his adventures,] [Sidenote J:  the love of the lady, and lastly of the lace.] [Sidenote K:  He showed them the cut in his neck.] [Sidenote L:  He groaned for grief and shame, and the blood rushed into his
  face.]

XXII.

[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!]

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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).