hen Sir Dinadan arose lightly and said:
What will ye that I shall do? Make you ready, said Sir Tristram, to ride
with me into the field. So when Sir Dinadan was armed he looked upon Sir
Tristram's helm and on his shield, and when he saw so many strokes upon
his helm and upon his shield he said: In good time was I thus asleep,
for had I been with you I must needs for shame there have followed you;
more for shame than any prowess that is in me; that I see well now by
those strokes that I should have been truly beaten as I was yesterday.
Leave your japes, said Sir Tristram, and come off, that [we] were in
the field again. What, said Sir Dinadan, is your heart up? yesterday
ye fared as though ye had dreamed. So then Sir Tristram was arrayed in
black harness. O Jesu, said Dinadan, what aileth you this day? meseemeth
ye be wilder than ye were yesterday. Then smiled Sir Tristram and said
to Dinadan: Await well upon me; if ye see me overmatched look that ye
be ever behind me, and I shall make you ready way by God's grace. So
Sir Tristram and Sir Dinadan took their horses. All this espied Sir
Palomides, both their going and their coming, and so did La Beale Isoud,
for she knew Sir Tristram above all other.

CHAPTER LXXVI. How Sir Palomides changed his shield and his armour for
to hurt Sir Tristram, and how Sir Launcelot did to Sir Tristram.

THEN when Sir Palomides saw that Sir Tristram was disguised, then he
thought to do him a shame. So Sir Palomides rode to a knight that was
sore wounded, that sat under a fair well from the field. Sir knight,
said Sir Palomides, I pray you to lend me your armour and your shield,
for mine is over-well known in this field, and that hath done me great
damage; and ye shall have mine armour and my shield that is as sure as
yours. I will well, said the knight, that ye have mine armour and my
shield, if they may do you any avail. So Sir Palomides armed him hastily
in that knight's armour and his shield that shone as any crystal or
silver, and so he came riding into the field. And then there was neither
Sir Tristram nor none of King Arthur's party that knew Sir Palomides.
And right so as Sir Palomides was come into the field Sir Tristram smote
down three knights, even in the sight of Sir Palomides. And then Sir
Palomides rode against Sir Tristram, and either met other with great
spears, that they brast to their hands. And then they dashed together
with swords eagerly. Then Sir Tristram had marv