"and all the slyness on earth wouldn't see him slain."The man mulled it over, and it entered his mindthat this girdle being given could be just the jobto save him from the strike in his challenge at the chapel.With luck, it might let him escape with his life.So relenting at last he let her speak,and promptly she pressed him to take the present,and he granted her wish, gave in with good grace,though the woman begged him not to whisper a wordof this gift to her husband, and Gawain agreed;those words of theirs within those wallsshould stay.His thanks are heartfelt, then.No sooner can he sayhow much it matters, whenthree kisses come his way."

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