Page:Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Tolkien and Gordon - 1925.djvu/118

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Sir Gawayn & þe Grene Knyȝt
As hit is breued in þe best boke of romaunce.
Þus in Arthurus day þis aunter bitidde,
Þe Brutus bokeȝ þereof beres wyttenesse;
Syþen Brutus, þe bolde burne, boȝed hider fyrst,
2525After þe segge and þe asaute watȝ sesed at Troye,
  iwysse,
Mony auntereȝ here-biforne
Haf fallen suche er þis.
Now þat here þe croun of þorne,
2530He bryng vus to his blysse! Amen.

HONY SOYT QUI MAL PENCE.