Of couardise & couetyse, þat I haf caȝt þare,
Þis is þe token of vn-trawþe, þat I am tan inne,
& I mot nedeȝ hit were, wyle I may last;
For non may hyden his harme, bot vnhap ne may hit,
For þer hit oneȝ is tachched, twynne wil hit neuer."
Þe kyng comforteȝ þe knyȝt, & alle þe court als,
Laȝen loude þer-at, & luflyly acorden,
Þat lordes & ladis, þat longed to þe Table,
Vche burne of þe broþer-hede a bauderyk schulde haue,
A bende, a belef hym aboute, of a bryȝt grene,