away. And the wounded knight was remounted, for the dwarf had helped horses hurtle together so stiffly that saddle-bows are to-frushed and it well!" for the damsels. For the knight crieth him mercy and Messire Gawain other side whither the horses were gone, and taketh the saddle of the Thereupon the dwarf crieth out: "Damsel, your counterfeit Gawain doth more ought knight to set affiance nor love on damsel. But God keep the knight made, Messire Gawain brake his collar-bone in the hurtle. other that they be not such as you!" the sole of his foot with your sword, otherwise will he not die yet." out, "Messire Gawain, your pity will be our death this day! For the draweth him back, and hath great pity of the knight, and cometh to the Messire Gawain draweth from over the knight and cometh toward his had right great pity of him. Howbeit the damsels cry to him; "And you Messire Gawain marvelleth at this that the damsel saith to him, and "Sir," saith the younger damsel, "And you would slay him, smite him in Knight without Pity is gone for succour, and if he escape, we shall be stirrups loosened and girths to-brast and fewtres splintered and spears "Our Gawain shall he be," say they, "so none take him from us!" snapped short, and the knights drop to the ground with such a shock him, and fleeth toward the forest a great gallop. And the damsels cry "Damsel," saith the knight, "Your love of me is turned to shame! Never that the blood rayeth forth at mouth and nose. In the fall that the the points of their spears, and the bodies of the knights and their horse, and right fain would he have let the knight live had it not been slay him not, the evil custom will not be overthrown." knight that was dead and setteth it on his own horse and draweth him