Nay, said Sir Dinadan, I will not have ado with you but in good manner.

And if ye will, ye shall find me soon ready.

Sir, said Sir Dinadan, whitherward ride you this way?
By my head, said Sir Palomides, I wot not, but as fortune leadeth me.

Heard ye or saw ye ought of Sir Tristram?
So God me help, of Sir Tristram I both heard and saw, and not for then we loved not inwardly well together, yet at my mischief Sir Tristram rescued me from my death; and yet, or he and I departed, by both our assents we assigned a day that we should have met at the stony grave that Merlin set beside Camelot, and there to have done battle together; howbeit I was letted, said Sir Palomides, that I might not hold my day, the which grieveth me sore; but I have a large excuse.

For I was prisoner with a lord, and many other more, and that shall Sir Tristram right well understand, that I brake it not of fear of cowardice.