[2752] And of ſir gawan, wich that ſhuld be loſt?
LANCELOT’S LAMENT FOR GAWANE.
If that be ſwth, adew the flour of armys,
He laments over him,
Now neuermore recoueryt be the harmys!
In hyme was manhed, curteſſy, and trouth,
[2756] Beſy trawell In knychthed, ay but ſleuth,
Humilyte, [and] gentrice, and cwrag;
In hyme thar was no maner of outrage.
first apostrophizing himself,