on the helm that his head hung nigh on the saddle bow.
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.



CHAPTER IX

How King Mark, Sir Lamorak, and Sir Dinadan came to
a castle, and how King Mark was known there.