Mark, crying and rating him as a wood man, through a
great forest. When Sir Uwaine and Sir Brandiles saw
Dagonet so chase King Mark, they laughed all as they
were wood. And then they took their horses, and rode
after to see how Sir Dagonet sped, for they would not for
no good that Sir Dagonet were shent, for King Arthur
loved him passing well, and made him knight with his own
hands. And at every tournament he began to make King
Arthur to laugh. Then the knights rode here and there,
crying and chasing after King Mark, that all the forest
rang of the noise.



CHAPTER XIII

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