Arthur.
[To the Others.] Then, avoid, a little while! I pray you all, avoid! [To the Queen.] Fear naught, dear love! An aged woman of an hundred winters, who knows but she may expound my vision, and discover to me what all women do most desire!
[Sir Gawayne gives his hand to Guinevere and leads her away.]
Sir Kay.
[Following, grumbling.] The original serpent! The divil himself!
The Stranger.
Sir, the signification of your dream is this: the dragon betokeneth the giant, being right horrible and abominable, whose peer for outrageousness ye never saw in all your days, and before the dawning will he come knocking on your doors to claim his forfeit, and unless ye make conditions with me for the true answer to his rede....
[At this juncture a terrible roaring is heard without, also resounding blows on the door. The Queen and the Two Knights come in running, crying, “The giant! The giant!”]
Guinevere.