Read the excerpt from "Gawayne.""What is it?" asked Sir Gawayne." Can I help you to perform your vow?""Yes, you can, fair nephew Gawayne, but I will never ask you to do a thing so terrible," said King Arthur."I am ready to do it, uncle, were it to wed the loathly lady herself.""That is what she asks, that a fair young knight should marry her. But she is too hideous and deformed; no man could make her his wife.""If that is all your grief," replied Sir Gawayne, "things shall soon be settled; I will wed this ill-favoured (favored) dame, and will be your ransom."