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How Sir Palomides by adventure met King Mark flying, and.
how he overthrew Dagonet and other knights.
SO King Mark rode by fortune by a well, in the way where stood a knight-errant on horseback, armed at all points, with a great spear in his hand.

And when he saw King Mark coming flying he said: Knight, return again for shame and stand with me, and I shall be thy warrant.
Ah, fair knight, said King Mark, let me pass, for yonder cometh after me the best knight of the world, with the black bended shield.

Fie, for shame, said the knight, he is none of the worthy knights, and if he were Sir Launcelot or Sir Tristram I should not doubt to meet the better of them both.

When King Mark heard him say that word, he turned his horse and abode by him.