hey heard say that he loved well Sir Tristram. So they reposed
them there, and soon after they rode unto the realm of Logris. And so
within a little while they met with Sir Launcelot that always had Dame
Bragwaine with him, to that intent he weened to have met the sooner
with Sir Tristram; and Sir Launcelot asked what tidings in Cornwall,
and whether they heard of Sir Tristram or not. Sir Kay and Sir Gaheris
answered and said, that they heard not of him. Then they told Sir
Launcelot word by word of their adventure. Then Sir Launcelot smiled and
said: Hard it is to take out of the flesh that is bred in the bone; and
so made them merry together.

CHAPTER XL

How after that Sir Tristram, Sir Palomides, and Sir Dinadan had been
long in prison they were delivered.

NOW leave we off this tale, and speak we of sir Dinas that had within
the castle a paramour, and she loved another knight better than him. And
so when sir Dinas went out a-hunting she slipped down by a towel, and
took with her two brachets, and so she yede to the knight that she
loved, and he her again. And when sir Dinas came home and missed his
paramour and his brachets, then was he the more wrother for his brachets
than for the lady. So then he rode after the knight that had his
paramour, and bade him turn and joust. So sir Dinas smote him down,
that with the fall he brake his leg and his arm. And then his lady and
paramour cried sir Dinas mercy, and said she would love him better than
ever she did. Nay, said sir Dinas, I shall never trust them that once
betrayed me, and therefore, as ye have begun, so end, for I will never
meddle with you. And so sir Dinas departed, and took his brachets with
him, and so rode to his castle.

Now will we turn unto sir Launcelot, that was right heavy that he could
never hear no tidings of sir Tristram, for all this while he was in
prison with sir Darras, Palomides, and Dinadan. Then Dame Bragwaine
took her leave to go into Cornwall, and sir Launcelot, sir Kay, and sir
Gaheris rode to seek sir Tristram in the country of Surluse.

Now speaketh this tale of sir Tristram and of his two fellows, for every
day sir Palomides brawled and said language against sir Tristram. I
marvel, said sir Dinadan, of thee, sir Palomides, an thou haddest sir
Tristram here thou wouldst do him no harm; for an a wolf and a sheep
were together in a prison the wolf would suffer the sheep to be in
peace. And wit thou well, said sir Dinadan, this sa