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Parts of the Poem:

1. There hurtles in at the hall-door an unknown rider,

One the greatest on ground in growth of his frame:

From broad neck to buttocks so bulky and thick,

And his loins and his legs so long and so great,Half a giant on earth hold him to be,

!ut belie"e him no less than the largest of men,

And the seemliest in his stature to see, as he rides,

For in back and in breast though his body was grim,

His waist in its width was worthily small,

And formed with e"ery feature in fair accord

was he.

#reat wonder grew in hall

At his hue most strange to see,

For man and gear and all

$ere green as green could be. %1&'(1)*+

. #awain was glad to begin those games in hall,

!ut if the end be harsher, hold it no wonder,

For though men are merry in mind after much drink,

A year asses aace, and ro"es e"er new:

First things and final conform but seldom.

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&. 0There ho"ed a great hall and fair:

Turrets rising in tiers, with tines at their tos,

2ires set beside them, slendidly long,

$ith finials well-fashioned, as filigree fine.

3halk-white chimneys o"er chambers high

#leamed in gay array uon gables and roofs4

The innacles in anoly, ointing in air,

2o "ied there for his "iew that "erily it seemed

A castle cut of aer for a king5s feast.

The good knight on #ringolet thought it great luckf he could but contri"e to come there within

To kee the 3hristmas feast in that castle fair

and bright.

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. 82ir, if you be #awain, it seems a great wonder9

A man so well-meaning, and mannerly disosed,

And cannot act in comany as courtesy bids,

And if one takes the trouble to teach him, tis all in "ain.

That lesson learned lately is lightly forgot,

Though ainted it as lain as my oor wit allowed.;

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8$hat lesson, dear ladyelilah was his doom, and >a"id thereafter

$as beguiled by !athsheba, and bore much distress4

...................For these were roud rinces, most roserous of old,

?ast all lo"ers lucky, that languished under hea"en,

bemused.

And one and all fell rey

To women they had used4

f be led astry,

@ethinks may be ecused.

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