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He found it at the sea-side,

Wruckèd upp in a floode;

Our Lord had written it with his hands,

And sealed it with his bloode.

With this book of Evangiles Sir Bredbittle, otherwise the Green Knight, overcomes the sprite, and having conjured him into a wall of stone, returns with report to King Arthur.