When Sir Lamorak saw him fare so, he said: Sir knight, what cheer?
meseemeth you have nigh your fill of fighting, it were pity to do you any more harm, for ye are but a mean knight, therefore I give you leave to go where ye list.

Gramercy, said King Mark, for ye and I be not matches.
Then Sir Dinadan mocked King Mark and said: Ye are not able to match a good knight.

As for that, said King Mark, at the first time I jousted with this knight ye refused him.

Think ye that it is a shame to me?
said Sir Dinadan: nay, sir, it is ever worship to a knight to refuse that thing that he may not attain, there fore your worship had been much more to have refused him as I did; for I warn you plainly he is able to beat such five as ye and I be; for ye knights of Cornwall are no men of worship as other knights are.

And because ye are no men of worship ye hate all men of worship, for never was bred in your country such a knight as is Sir Tristram..