though Galiot’s host was a surpassing multitude.
For galyot was O paſing multitude
Of prewit men in armys that war gude,
The wich can with o freſch curag aſſaill
[1112] Ther ennemys that day In to batell;
Had it not been for the manhood of the red knight, Arthur’s folk had been in peril.
That ne ware not the vorſchip and manhede
Of the red knycht, in perell and in dreid
Arthuris folk had ben, vith-outen vere;
[1116] Set thei var good, thei var of ſmal powere.