While he hit hade hemely halched aboute,
Þer is no haþel vnder heuen to-hewe hym þat myȝt;
For he myȝt not he slayn, for slyȝt vpon erþe."
Þen kest þe knyȝt, & hit come to his hert,
Hit were a Iuel for þe Iopardé, þat hym iugged were,
When he acheued to þe chapel, his chek forto fech;
Myȝ1 he haf slypped to þe vn-slayn, þe sleȝt were noble.
Þenne ho þulged with hir þrepe, & þoled hir to speke,
& ho bere on hym þe belt, & bede hit hym swyþe,
& he granted, & [ho] hym gafe with a goud wylle,