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And once el But it seeh an ardent briar, sharp-thorned but with flower , drave roots into his blood and laced the lovely body of Iseult all round about it and bound it to his own and to his every thought and desire And he thought, "Felons, that chargedMark's land, I have come lower by far, for it is not his land I covet Fair uncle, who loved me orphaned ere ever you knew in me the blood of your sister Blanchefleur, you that wept as you bore me to that boat alone, why did you not drive out the boy that was to betray you? Ah! What thought was that! Iseult is yours and I am but your vassal; Iseult is yours and I am your son; Iseult is yours and h she would have hated She could not hate, for a tenderness ien watched the more cruelly because she alone knew the depth of evil done
Two days she watched the each other as blind ether more wretched still, for then they trembled each for the first avowal
On the third day, as Tristan neared the tent on deck where Iseult sat, she saw hi and she said to him, very humbly, "Come in, my lord"
"Queen," said Tristan, "why do you call e and vassal, to revere and serve and cherish you as my lady and Queen?"
But Iseult answered, "No, you know that you are my lord and my master, and I your slave Ah, why did I not sharpen those wounds of the wounded singer, or let die that dragon-slayer in the grasses of the marsh? But then I did not knohat now I know!"
"And what is it that you know, Iseult?"
She laid her arht of her eyes was drowned and her lips trembled
"The love of you," she said Whereat he put his lips to hers
But as they thus tasted their first joy, Brangien, that watched them, stretched her arms and cried at their feet in tears: "Stay and return if still you can … But oh! that path has no returning For already Love and his strength drag you on and now henceforth forever never shall you know joy without pain again The wine possesses you, the draught youralone should have drunk with you: but that old Enemy has tricked us, all us three; friend Tristan, Iseult my friend, for that bad ward I kept take here h me and in that cup you have drunk not love alone, but love and death together"