[Sidenote A: Gawayne rises, hears mass, and then dines.] [Sidenote B: Meanwhile the lord pursues the wild boar,] [Sidenote C: that bit the backs of his hounds asunder,] [Sidenote D: and caused the stiffest of the hunters to start.] [Sidenote E: The boar runs into a hole in a rock by the side of a brook.] [Sidenote F: The froth foams at his mouth.] [Sidenote G: None durst approach him,] [Sidenote H: so many had he torn with his tusks.] [Footnote 1: til (?).] [Footnote 2: madee, in MS.] [Footnote 3: fomed (?).] [Footnote 4: þo3t (?).]
[A] Til þe kny3t com hym-self, kachande his blonk, Sy3 hym byde at þe bay, his burne3 bysyde, [B] He ly3tes luflych[1] adoun, leue3 his corsour, 1584 Brayde3 out a bry3t bront, & bigly forth stryde3, Founde3 fast þur3 þe forth, þer þe felle byde3, [C] Þe wylde wat3 war of þe wy3e with weppen in honde, Hef hy3ly þe here, so hetterly he fnast, 1588 Þat fele ferde for þe freke3,[2] lest felle hym þe worre; [D] Þe swyn sette3 hym out on þe segge euen, Þat þe burne & þe bor were boþe vpon hepe3, In þe wy3t-est of þe water, þe worre hade þat oþer; 1592 [E] For þe mon merkke3 hym wel, as þay mette fyrst, Set sadly þe scharp in þe slot euen, [F] Hit hym vp to þe hult, þat þe hert schyndered, & he 3arrande hym 3elde, & 3edoun[3] þe water, 1596 ful tyt; A hundreth hounde3 hym hent, [Fol. 112b.] [G] Þat bremely con hym bite, Burne3 him bro3t to bent, 1600 & dogge3 to dethe endite.
[Sidenote A: The knight, seeing the boar at bay,] [Sidenote B: alights from his horse,] [Sidenote C: and seeks to attack him with his sword.] [Sidenote D: The "swine sets out" upon the man,] [Sidenote E: who, aiming well,] [Sidenote F: wounds him in the pit of the stomach.] [Sidenote G: The boar is soon bitten to death by a hundred hounds.] [Footnote 1: MS. luslych.] [Footnote 2: freke (?).] [Footnote 3: 3ede doun (?).]
[A] There wat3 blawyng of prys in mony breme home, He3e halowing on hi3e, with haþele3 þat my3t; [B] Brachetes bayed þat best, as bidden þe maystere3, 1604 Of þat chargeaunt chace þat were chef huntes. [C] Þenne a wy3e þat wat3 wys vpon wod crafte3, To vnlace þis bor lufly bigynne3; [D] Fyrst he hewes of his hed, & on hi3e sette3, 1608 & syþen rende3 him al roghe bi þe rygge after, [E] Brayde3 out þe boweles, brenne3 hom on glede, With bred blent þer-with his braches rewarde3; Syþen he britne3 out þe brawen in bry3t brode [s]chelde3, 1612 [F] & hat3 out þe hastlette3, as hi3tly biseme3; [G] & 3et hem halche3 al hole þe halue3 to-geder, & syþen on a stif stange stoutly hem henges. Now with þis ilk swyn þay swengen to home; 1616 [H] Þe bores hed wat3 borne bifore þe burnes seluen, Þat him for-ferde in þe forþe, þur3 forse of his honde, so stronge; Til he se3 sir Gawayne, 1620 In halle hym þo3t ful longe, [I] He calde, & he com gayn, His fee3 þer for to fonge.
