worth cowarddyse & couetyse boţe!
In yow is vylany & vyse, ţat vertue disstrye3."
2376 [H] Ţenne he ka3t to ţe knot, & ţe kest lawse3,
Brayde broţely ţe belt to ţe burne seluen:
"Lo! ţer ţe falssyng, foule mot hit falle!
[I] For care of ţy knokke cowardyse me ta3t
2380 To a-corde me with couetyse, my kynde to for-sake,
Ţat is larges & lewte, ţat longe3 to kny3te3.
[J] Now am I fawty, & falce, & ferde haf ben euer;
Of trecherye & vn-trawţe boţe 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 ţat oţer leude, & luflyly sayde,
"I halde hit hardily[1] hole, ţe harme ţat I hade;
[B] Ţou art confessed so clene, be-knowen of ţy mysses,
2392 & hat3 ţe penaunce apert, of ţe poynt of myn egge,
[C] I halde ţe polysed of ţat ply3t, & pured as clene,
As ţou hade3 neuer forfeted, syţen ţou wat3 fyrst borne.
[D] & I gif ţe, sir, ţe gurdel ţat is golde hemmed;
2396 For hit is grene as my goune, sir G:, 3e maye
Ţenk vpon ţis ilke ţrepe, ţer ţou forth ţrynge3
Among prynces of prys, & ţis a pure token
[E] Of ţe chaunce of ţe grene chapel, at cheualrous kny3te3;
2400 [F] & 3e schal in ţis nwe 3er a3ayn

Martha Finley (1828 - 1909) was a teacher and author of numerous works, the most well known being the 28 volume Elsie Dinsmore series which was published over a span of 38 years. The daughter of Presbyterian minister Dr. James Brown Finley and his wife and cousin Maria Theresa Brown Finley, she was born on April 26th, 1828 in Chillicothe, Ohio. Finley wrote many of her books under the psodonym Martha Farquharson. She died in 1909 in Elkton, Maryland, where she moved in 1876.

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