But never would the hound depart from Tristram; and when King Mark and other knights came up to see him, it sat upon his body and bayed at all who came too near. Then one of the knights said, "Surely this is Sir Tristram; I see it by the hound."
"Nay," said the king, "it cannot be," and asked Sir Tristram on his faith who he was.
"My name," said he, "is Sir Tristram of Lyonesse, and now ye may do what ye list with me."
Then the king said, "It repents me that ye are recovered," and sought to make his barons slay him. But most of them would not assent thereto, and counseled him instead to banish Tristram for ten years again from Cornwall, for returning without orders from the king. So he was sworn to depart forthwith.
And as he went towards the ship a knight of King Arthur, named Sir Din
