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Clara therefore told him the whole affair in Italian, before her maid and the witch-girl of the visit of the young Prince, and how the girl was lying hid under the bed, and asked him was it not likely that Sidonia had brought her there to teach her how to brew the love-drink, with which she would then have bewitched the Prince and all the men-folk in the castle, and ought she not to warn her Grace of the danger.
I remember seeing him there on hands and knees, and then the liquor I had had would not be denied. In vain I drew my hands across my drooping eyelids, in vain I tried to master my knees that knocked together. The spell of the love-drink that Heru, blushing, had held to my lips was on me.
The doctor mentioned that he must have been witch-struck. Then more doctors were sent for from the Grypswald, but all was in vain no one knew what ailed him; and from day to day he grew worse. Clara von Dewitz now bitterly reproached herself for having concealed her suspicions about the love-drink from her Grace though indeed she did so by desire of her betrothed, Marcus Bork.
It were well therefore on every account not to let the matter get wind, and to shut up the wench safely in the witches' tower until the answer came from Daber. If she were pronounced really guilty, it would then be time enough to question her on the rack about the love-drink and the conversation between the young lord and Sidonia. So this course was agreed on.
I give it, mind, out of pure Christian charity; but now tell me honestly canst thou really make a love-drink?" Illa. "Yes; her sister had taught her." "Is the drink of equal power for men and women?" Illa. "Yes; without doubt, it would make either mad with love." "Has it ever an injurious effect upon them? does it take away their strength?" Illa. "Yes; they fall down like flies.
She did give a love-drink to Albert, because he grew cross, and spent the nights away from her, and complained if she idled a little, so that her master beat her.
So they were married with great rejoicings, and all the kingdom was glad, and so was Sir Tristram, for now, he thought, he could quench that fatal love for Iseult of Cornwall, and could spend the rest of his days in this sunny land, happy with his sweet child-wife. Alas! alas! Once more the deadly love-drink did its work!
She was there admonished to tell the whole truth, but persisted in asseverating that Sidonia had never learned from her how to make a love-drink. Her statement, however, was not believed; and Master Hansen was summoned, to try and make her speak more.
Of course, he WAS Isoud's husband; and Missy lived in Cherryvale, where conventions were not complicated and were strictly adhered to; else scandal was the result. But she told herself that this situation was different because it was an unusual kind of love. They couldn't help themselves. It wasn't their fault. It was the love-drink that did it. Besides, it happened in the Middle Ages...
But, Tristram and La Beale Isoud found that love-drink! Breathing quickly, Missy read the fateful part: "It happened so that they were thirsty, and it seemed by the colour and the taste that it was a noble wine. And they thought never drink that ever they drank was so sweet nor so good.
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