d they all, well have ye done, and well have ye revenged us,
wherefore we pray you tell us your name. Fair sirs, ye ought to know my
name, the which is called Sir Dinadan. When they understood that it was
Dinadan they were more wroth than they were before, for they hated him
out of measure because of Sir Lamorak. For Dinadan had such a custom
that he loved all good knights that were valiant, and he hated all those
that were destroyers of good knights. And there were none that hated
Dinadan but those that ever were called murderers. Then spake the hurt
knight that Breuse Saunce Pite had chased, his name was Dalan, and
said: If thou be Dinadan thou slewest my father. It may well be so, said
Dinadan, but then it was in my defence and at his request. By my head,
said Dalan, thou shalt die therefore, and therewith he dressed his spear
and his shield. And to make the shorter tale, Sir Dinadan smote him down
off his horse, that his neck was nigh broken. And in the same wise he
smote Sir Mordred and Sir Agravaine. And after, in the quest of the
Sangreal, cowardly and feloniously they slew Dinadan, the which was
great damage, for he was a great bourder and a passing good knight.

And so Sir Dinadan rode to a castle that hight Beale-Valet. And there he
found Sir Palomides that was not yet whole of the wound that Sir Lamorak
gave him. And there Dinadan told Palomides all the tidings that he heard
and saw of Sir Tristram, and how he was gone with King Mark, and with
him he hath all his will and desire. Therewith Sir Palomides waxed
wroth, for he loved La Beale Isoud. And then he wist well that Sir
Tristram enjoyed her.

CHAPTER XXVI. How King Arthur, the Queen, and Launcelot received letters
out of Cornwall, and of the answer again.

NOW leave we Sir Palomides and Sir Dinadan in the Castle of Beale-Valet,
and turn we again unto King Arthur. There came a knight out of Cornwall,
his name was Fergus, a fellow of the Round Table. And there he told
the king and Sir Launcelot good tidings of Sir Tristram, and there were
brought goodly letters, and how he left him in the castle of Tintagil.
Then came the damosel that brought goodly letters unto King Arthur and
unto Sir Launcelot, and there she had passing good cheer of the king,
and of the Queen Guenever, and of Sir Launcelot. Then they wrote goodly
letters again. But Sir Launcelot bade ever Sir Tristram beware of King
Mark, for ever he called him in his letters King Fox, as who sa