Unit 2: Vocabulary from Readings 2

And with that he laughed so loud that the lord was distressed;
In chagrin, his blood shot up in his face and limbs so fair

It was made of green silk and was marked of gleaming gold
Embroidered along the edges, ingeniously stitched.

And the Green Knight caught the handle, holding it back,
And mocked the prince with many a proud reproof:
“You can’t be Gawain,” he said, “who’s thought so good,
A man who’s never been daunted on hill or dale!..."

May all that glory the good King Arthur gave you
Prove efficacious now—if it ever can—
And save your neck.

“Cursed be cowardice and covetousness both,
Villainy and vice that destroy all virtue!”

The same night that my lord was dead, the hour of his death, as his knights record, there came into my castle of Tintagel a man like my lord in speech and in countenance, and two knights with him in likeness of his two knights Brastias and Jordans, and so I went unto bed with him as I ought to do with my lord, and the same night, as I shall answer unto God, this child was begotten upon me.

And in the meanwhile his enemies usurped upon him, and did a great battle upon his men, and slew many of his people.

And therewith he yielded up the ghost, and then was he interred as longed to a king, wherefore the queen, fair Igraine, made great sorrow, and all the barons.

And as Arthur sped before, so did he at Easter, yet there were some of the great lords had indignation that Arthur should be king, and put it off in a delay till the feast of Pentecost.

Then the Archbishop of Canterbury by Merlin’s providence let purvey then of the best knights that they might get, and such knights as Uther Pendragon loved best and most trusted in his days.