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40.

Then shee said, ‘Choose thee, gentle Gawaine,

Truth as I doe say,

Wether thou wilt haue me in this liknesse

In the night or else in the day.’

41.

41.2 ‘was’ (Child’s suggestion): the Folio reads with.

And then bespake him gentle Gawaine,

Was one soe mild of moode,