[14] "I take no force," I care not.
[15] "Him list," he wishes, he pleases.
[16] "Hale and how," haul and ho: the sailors' cries in hoisting away, &c.
[17] "Troth," truth, and "plight," wove: "troth plight," wove their truth together.
[18] We have here the beginning of that series of quarrels which presently arrays Sir Gawaine and King Arthur (who with many protests allows himself to be guided by Sir Gawaine) on one side, against Queen Guenever and Sir Launcelot (who has taken the queen's part) on the other, and which ends with the great battle in which Arthur is slain and the Round Table broken up for ever.
[19] "Worshipped" made of worth, honored.
[20] This event—the death of King Arthur—gave name to the whole series of stories with some of the old editors: Caxton, for example, the first printer of Sir Thomas Malory's book, issued it under the title "La Mort Darthur," that is, la mort (French, the death) d'Arthur (of Arthur).
[21] "Water wap and waves wane," water lap and waves ebb.