Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: With Pearl and Sir Orfeo
J. R. R. TolkienSözler ve Alıntılar
'Would you, my worthy lord,' said Gawain to the king,
'bid me abandon this bench and stand by you there,
so that I without discourtesy might be excused from the table,
and my liege lady were not loth to permit me,
I would come to your counsel before your courtiers fair.
For I find it unfitting, as in fact it is held,
when a challenge in your chamber makes choice so exalted,
though you yourself be desirous to accept it in person,
while many bold men about you on bench are seated:
on earth there are, I hold, none more honest of purpose,
no figures fairer on field where fighting is waged.
I am the weakest, I am aware, and in wit feeblest,
and the least loss, if l live not, if one would learn the truth.
Only because you are my uncle is honour given me:
save your blood in my body I boast of no virtue ;
and since this affair is so foolish that it nowise befits you,
and I have request dit first, accord it then to me!
If my claim is uncalled-for without cavil shall judge
this court.'
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