"Dame, yf thou leve not me, Com nere and thou shalt se Which of hem abode." Blith was that lady bryght ffor to se that sight; With the knyght went she. Whan she cam where the geaunt lay, "Sir," she said, "par ma ffay, I wott welle it is he ; Other he was of God Allemyght, Or Seynt George, oure lady knyzt, "Yf eny Cryston man smyte hym down, He is worthy to have renown Thoroughoute alle Crystiaunté." "I have wonder," said the knyght, "Sir," she said, " verament, As my fader on huntyng went, Erly in a mornyng; ffor his men pursued a dere, To his castelle that stondith here, That doth my hondys wryng. 1680 1690 1700 "This giaunt hym toke, wo he be ! ffor his love he gevith hym me, He wold none other thinge." fforth she brought bred and wyne, ffayn he was for to dyne. This knyght made noble chere, With the geaunt strong; Sir Torrent dwellid no longer thare, Than he myзt away fare, With that lady bryght. 1710 1720 "He is so long of bone and blood, He is the geaunt, be the rode, 66 Som seith he riduth uppon." Nay," said the Kyng, " verament, It is the knyght that I after sent, I thanke God and seynt John! "ffor the geaunt slayn hath he, Wott ye welle, with joy and blis As doughty man of dede. The kyng and other lordys gent, Into this uncouth lond!" Into a state they hym brought, They said, "so God hem spede! "Were there no lyve but ane, The lady wist not or than, That he was hurt, that gentilman, And sith she went hym tylle. E 1820 1830 1840 She sought his woundus, and said thare, "Thou shalte lyve and wel fare, Yf the nothing evylle; My lord the kyng hath me hight, "Damyselle, loo here my hond! And I take eny wyffe in this lond, It shalle be at thy wylle.” Gendres was that ladyes name, The geauntes hede he brought hame, And the dragons also. Mene myght here a myle aboute, How on the dede hedys they did shoute, 1850 ffor the shame that they had hem wrought; Both with dede and with tong, ffyfte on the hedys dong, That to the ground they sought. Sir Torrent dwellid thare Twelfe monythis and mare, That ffurther my3t he nought; The kyng of Norway said, "nowe, ffals thevis, woo worth thou, fferly sotelle were ye. 1860 "Ye said the knyght wold not com; Swith oute of my kingdome, Or hangid shalle ye be !" His squiers that fro hym fled, And there they drenchid every man, And woo begone is he; The child to lond that God sent, In a riche town. That hath hight be her day, 1870 Byfore the kyng he hym sett, 1880 ffulle welle thy men, lord, they grett, And in the see are they drowned. Desonelle said, "where is Torent?" "In Norway, lady, verament:" On sownyng felle she down; As she sownyd, this lady myld, |