& how ţe fox wat3 slayn,
He tolde hym, as ţay stode.

[Sidenote A: The hunters then hasten home.]
[Sidenote B: The lord at last alights at his dear home,]
[Sidenote C: where he finds Gawayne amusing the ladies.]
[Sidenote D: The knight comes forward and welcomes his host,]
[Sidenote E: and according to covenant kisses him thrice.]
[Sidenote F: (See l. 1868.)]
[Sidenote G: "By Christ," says the other, "ye have had much bliss!"]
[Sidenote H: I have hunted all day and have gotten nothing,]
[Sidenote I: but the skin of this foul fox,]
[Sidenote J: a poor reward for three such kisses."]
[Sidenote K: He then tells him how the fox was slain.]

XXXIII.

1952 [A] With merţe & mynstralsye, wyth mete3 at hor wylle,
Ţay maden as mery as any men mo3ten,
With la3yng of ladies, with lote3 of bordes;
Gawayn & ţe gode mon so glad were ţay boţe,
1956 Bot if ţe douthe had doted, oţer dronken ben oţer,
Boţe ţe mon & ţe meyny maden mony iape3,
[B] Til ţe sesoun wat3 se3en, ţat ţay seuer moste;
Burne3 to hor bedde be-houed at ţe laste.
1960 [C] Ţenne lo3ly his leue at ţe lorde fyrst
Fochche3 ţis fre mon, & fayre he hym ţonkke3;
[D] "Of such a sellyly[1] soiorne, as I haf hade here,
Your honour, at ţis hy3e fest, ţe hy3e kyng yow 3elde!
1964 I 3ef yow me for on of youre3, if yowre-self lyke3,
For I mot nedes, as 3e wot, meue to morne;
[E] & 3e me take sum tolke, to teche, as 3e hy3t,
Ţe gate to ţe grene chapel, as god wyl me suffer
1968 To dele, on nw3ere3 day, ţe dome of my wyrdes."
"In god fayţe," quod ţe god mon. "wyth a goud wylle;
Al ţat euer I yow hy3t, halde schal I rede."
[F] Ţer asyngnes he a seruaunt, to sett hym in ţe waye,
1972 & coundue hym by ţe downe3, ţat he no drechch had, [Fol. 117b.]
For to f[e]rk ţur3 ţe fryth, & fare at ţe gaynest,
bi greue.
Ţe lorde Gawayn con ţonk,
1976

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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