B] "Now he ţat spede3 vche spech, ţis disport 3elde yow!
Bot ţat 3e be Gawan, hit got3 in mynde."
"Quer-fore?" quod ţe freke, & freschly he aske3,
Ferde lest he hade fayled in fourme of his castes;
1296 Bot ţe burde hym blessed, & bi ţis skyl sayde,
"So god as Gawayn gaynly is halden, [Fol. 108b.]
& cortaysye is closed so clene in hym-seluen,
[C] Couth not ly3tly haf lenged so long wyth a lady,
1300 Bot he had craued a cosse, bi his courtaysye,
Bi sum towch of summe tryfle, at sum tale3 ende."
[D] Ţen quod Wowen, "I-wysse, worţe as yow lyke3,
I schal kysse at your comaundement, as a kny3t falle3,
1304 & fire[1] lest he displese yow, so[2] plede hit no more."
[E] Ho comes nerre with ţat, & cache3 hym in arme3,
Loute3 luflych adoun, & ţe leude kysse3;
Ţay comly bykennen to Kryst ayţer oţer;
1308 Ho dos hir forth at ţe dore, with-outen dyn more.
& he ryches hym to ryse, & rapes hym sone,
[F] Clepes to his chamberlayn, choses his wede,
Bo3e3 forth, quen he wat3 boun, blyţely to masse,
1312 & ţenne he meued to his mete, ţat menskly hym keped,
[G] & made myry al day til ţe mone rysed,
with game;
With[3] neuer freke fayrer fonge,
1316 [H] Bitwene two so dyngne dame,
Ţe alder & ţe 3onge,
Much solace set ţay same.

[Sidenote A: With a laughing glance, she says,]
[Sidenote B: "I am doubtful whether ye be Gawayne.]
[Sidenote C: Were it he, surely, ere this, he would have craved a kiss."]
[Sidenote D: "I shall kiss," says the knight, "at your commandment."]
[Sidenote E: With that the lady catches him in her arms and kisses him.]
[Sidenote F: Gawayne then rises and goes to mass.]
[Sidenote G: He makes mirth all day till the moon rises,]
[Sidenote H: between the "two dames," the older and the younger.]
[Footnote 1: fere (?).]
[Footnote 2: fo, in MS.]
[Footnote 3: Was (?)

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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