“Who pondered the words for many a day.”
Mark, too, a little further on, how gloriously our author reproduces the iron-rattle and fiery jostle of the tourney:
“Into the lists Sir Gawen rides,
Manful upon his charger black,”
to break a lance for his lady’s sake.
“At signal of a bugle blast—
Sharp and sudden sound,
The knights set forward, fiery fast,