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I asked father, but, oh, he was angry. The Indians told me he gave poor Four Eyes an awful talking to. Then there were Tristan and Iseult two Iseults. It was very sad. But I should like to love that way. Do all the young men and women in the world do that? They do not here. They just get married. They do not seem to have time. I am English, and I will never marry an Indian would you?
Tell her to remember the oath I swore to serve a single love, for I have kept that oath. But behind the wall, Iseult of the White Hands heard all these things; and Tristan continued: Hasten, my friend, and come back quickly, or you will not see me again. Take forty days for your term, but come back with Iseult the Fair. And tell your sister nothing, or tell her that you seek some doctor.
I tell you, I have driven them forth. Iseult trembled, but looking straight at the King, she said: Sire, call them back; I will clear myself by oath.
When King Mark heard of the death of these lovers, he crossed the sea and came into Brittany; and he had two coffins hewn, for Tristan and Iseult, one of chalcedony for Iseult, and one of beryl for Tristan. And he took their beloved bodies away with him upon his ship to Tintagel, and by a chantry to the left and right of the apse he had their tombs built round.
Lord, said Gorvenal, take no counsel of anger. See here this thicket with a ditch dug round about it. Let us hide therein where the track passes near, and comers by it will tell us news; and, boy, if they burn Iseult, I swear by God, the Son of Mary, never to sleep under a roof again until she be avenged.
So now I cry to God the Lord, who is King of the world, and beg Him to give me strength to yield back Iseult to King Mark; for she is indeed his wife, wed according to the laws of Rome before all the Barony of his land. And as he thought thus, he leant upon his bow, and all through the night considered his sorrow.
It contained two attempts the title-piece and Tristram and Iseult much longer and more ambitious than anything that the poet had yet done, and thirty-three smaller poems, of which two Destiny and Courage were never reprinted. It was again very unequal perhaps more so than the earlier volume, though it went higher and oftener high.
Your folly and you have passed the bounds! But the fool, still playing, pushed the barons out, crying: Out! madmen, out! Leave me to counsel with Iseult, since I come here for the love of her! And as the King laughed, Iseult blushed and said: King, drive me forth this fool! But the fool still laughed and cried: Queen, do you mind you of the dragon I slew in your land?
So Tristram told him all his story, and then took leave of the king and all the court; and great was the grief at his departure, but by far the saddest leave-taking was that between him and La Belle Iseult, for they loved each other very dearly.
Towards midnight Tristan crossed the Heath of Sand, and found the writ, and bore it sealed to Ogrin; and the hermit read the letter; How Mark consented by the counsel of his barons to take back Iseult, but not to keep Tristan for his liege.
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