Still, as the arrows fly from everywhere, biting into the brown bide, weremember Gawain's brown fur-trimmed robe. And we are at least mar-ginally aware of the lady's outdoor associations,just as Gawain himself ismindful of the hunting lord. The hunt begins the day like an open ques-tion, and as Gawain's delightful huntress turns his bedroom into a gamepreserve-as inner experience begins to merge with outer-we wonderhow he might be taken .

be faculties of tberational soul could access the images produced by tbe inner senses, butits bigber faculties of reasoning, logie, consciousness and will worked byabstraction. Tbey could themselves store images, althougb they could notreceive new ones from outside the mind. Tbus buman intellection wasfrequently, if not necessarily, dependent upon sense perception. But ani-mals, wbo did not bave souls, depended entirely upon the instinctive pro-cessing of images carried out by the inner senses.

Its signifi-cance for Gawain 's cbaracter seems plain enougb, ifwe can assume thatwithin bim, a courtly persona and a private, or "natural" man co-exist,and tbat tbere is sometbing to be gained-for readers, if not for tbeembarrassed Gawain bimself-by acknowledging that both the intellec-tual and the emotional, both thinking and feeling, are necessary to theman be bas been sbown to be .