What! hit wharred, & whette, as water at a mulne,
What! hit rusched, & ronge, rawþe to here.
Þenne "bi Godde," quod Gawayn, "þat gere as1 I trowe,
Is ryched at þe reuerence, me renk to mete,
bi rote;
Let God worche we loo,
Hit helppeȝ me not a mote,
My lif þaȝ I for-goo,
Drede dotȝ me no lote."
1 at, in MS.