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“Why should I not defy
Destinies strong and dear;
What can man do but try?

(Kirtlan translation)”
― Ernest J.B. Kirtlan, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Rendered Literally Into Modern English From the Alliterative Romance-poem of A.D. 1360, From Cotton Ms. Nero Ax in ... and Gawain Sagas in Early English Literature