Not so, said Sir Tristram, why are ye so wroth?
I will not fight.

Fie on thee, coward, said Dinadan, thou shamest all knights.

As for that, said Sir Tristram, I care not, for I will wait upon you and be under your protection; for because ye are so good a knight ye may save me.

The devil deliver me of thee, said Sir Dinadan, for thou art as goodly a man of arms and of thy person as ever I saw, and the most coward that ever I saw.

What wilt thou do with those great spears that thou carriest with thee?
I shall give them, said Sir Tristram, to some good knight when I come to the tournament; and if I see you do best, I shall give them to you.
So thus as they rode talking they saw where came an errant knight afore them, that dressed him to joust.