Then at the meat came in Eliot the harper, and because he was a curious harper men heard him sing the same lay that Dinadan had made, the which spake the most villainy by King Mark of his treason that ever man heard.
When the harper had sung his song to the end King Mark was wonderly wroth, and said: Thou harper, how durst thou be so bold on thy head to sing this song afore me.

Sir, said Eliot, wit you well I am a minstrel, and I must do as I am commanded of these lords that I bear the arms of.
And sir, wit ye well that Sir Dinadan, a knight of the Table Round, made this song, and made me to sing it afore you.

Thou sayest well, said King Mark, and because thou art a minstrel thou shalt go quit, but I charge thee hie thee fast out of my sight.

So the harper departed and went to Sir Tristram, and told him how he had sped.

Then Sir Tristram let make letters as goodly as he could to Launcelot and to Sir Dinadan.