... fine but if the virtue that invests it were verily known, it would be held, I hope, in higher esteem. For the man that possesses this piece of silk, if he bore it on his body, belted about, there is no hand under heaven that could hew him down, for he could not be killed by any craft on earth (Norton 1498 ... it was a pearl for his plight the peril to come when he gains the Green Chapel to get his reward: could he escape unscathed, the scheme were noble! Then he bore with her words and withstood them no more (Norton 1498). "ClassicNote on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" says: On the ou...

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