Le deuxième jour que passe Gauvain chez le Chevalier Vert,
Much glame and gle glent vp ther-inne,
Aboute the fyre vpon flet, and on fele wyse,
At the soper and after mony athel songe[gh]
As condutes of kryst-masse, and carole[gh] newe,
With alle the manerly merthe that mon may of telle.
Le troisième jour,
With merthe and mynstralsye, with mote[gh] at hor wylle
Thay maden as mery as any men mo[gh]ten.
(Sir Gawayne, éd. Morris, 1864, pp. 16 et 53 et vers 1952.)