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And so she said one night: "Oh, Tristan, I have heard that the castle is faëry and that twice a year it vanishes away So is it vanished now and this is that enchanted orchard of which the harpers sing" And as she said it, the sentinels bugled dawn

Iseult had refound her joy Mark's thought of ill-ease grew faint; but the felons felt or knehich way lay truth, and they guessed that Tristan had met the Queen Till at last Duke Andret (whom God shame) said to his peers: "My lords, let us take counsel of Frocin the Dwarf; for he knows the seven arts, and ic and every kind of charm He will teach us if he will the wiles of Iseult the Fair"

The little evil ns for them and characters of sorcery; he cast the fortunes of the hour and then at last he said: "Sirs, high good lords, this night shall you seize the, and he said: "Sire, bid your huntsmen leash the hounds and saddle the horses, proclaihts abroad therein, and hang ht what converse Tristan holds"

So did the King unwillingly; and at fall of night he left the hunt taking the dwarf in pillion, and entered the orchard, and the dwarf took hi, climb into these branches and take with you your arrows and your bow, for you ht thesaw his nephew leap the pallisades and throw his bark and twigs into the stream But Tristan had bent over the round well to throw the He could not stop the branches as they floated away, and there, yonder, in the wo and would come

She came, and Tristan watched her motionless Above him in the tree he heard the click of the arrohen it fits the string

She ca, "What has passed, that Tristan does not come to meet me? He has seen some foe"

Suddenly, by the clear 's shadow in the fount She showed the wit of women well, she did not lift her eyes

"Lord God," she said, lon, grant I may be the first to speak"