Ah, said Sir Gawaine, gentle knight, ye say the word that I should say. And therewith they took off their helms and either kissed other, and there they swore together either to love other as brethren -" But I lost the thread there, and dozed off to slumber, thinking about what a pity it was that men with such superb strength - strength enabling them to stand up cased in cruelly burdensome iron and drenched with perspiration, and hack and batter and bang each other for six hours on a stretch - should not have been born at a time when they could put it to some useful purpose.

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