d such a man of prowess, there is no lady in the world too
good for you. Will ye, said Sir Gawaine, promise me to do all that ye
may, by the faith of your body, to get me the love of my lady? Yea, sir,
said she, and that I promise you by the faith of my body. Now, said Sir
Gawaine, it is yourself that I love so well, therefore I pray you hold
your promise. I may not choose, said the Lady Ettard, but if I should be
forsworn; and so she granted him to fulfil all his desire.

So it was then in the month of May that she and Sir Gawaine went out of
the castle and supped in a pavilion, and there was made a bed, and there
Sir Gawaine and the Lady Ettard went to bed together, and in another
pavilion she laid her damosels, and in the third pavilion she laid part
of her knights, for then she had no dread of Sir Pelleas. And there Sir
Gawaine lay with her in that pavilion two days and two nights. And on
the third day, in the morning early, Sir Pelleas armed him, for he had
never slept since Sir Gawaine departed from him; for Sir Gawaine had
promised him by the faith of his body, to come to him unto his pavilion
by that priory within the space of a day and a night.

Then Sir Pelleas mounted upon horseback, and came to the pavilions that
stood without the castle, and found in the first pavilion three knights
in three beds, and three squires lying at their feet. Then went he to
the second pavilion and found four gentlewomen lying in four beds. And
then he yede to the third pavilion and found Sir Gawaine lying in bed
with his Lady Ettard, and either clipping other in arms, and when he saw
that his heart well-nigh brast for sorrow, and said: Alas! that ever a
knight should be found so false; and then he took his horse and might
not abide no longer for pure sorrow. And when he had ridden nigh half a
mile he turned again and thought to slay them both; and when he saw them
both so lie sleeping fast, unnethe he might hold him on horseback for
sorrow, and said thus to himself, Though this knight be never so false,
I will never slay him sleeping, for I will never destroy the high order
of knighthood; and therewith he departed again. And or he had ridden
half a mile he returned again, and thought then to slay them both,
making the greatest sorrow that ever man made. And when he came to the
pavilions, he tied his horse unto a tree, and pulled out his sword naked
in his hand, and went to them thereas they lay, and yet he thought it
were shame t