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At the foot of the red cross he caht and quickly"

The dark shade of the great trees wrapt the followed the spy he felt his sword, and trusted it for the great blows it had struck of old; and surely had Tristan wakened, one of the two had stayed there dead Then the wood, we are near"

He held the stirrup, and tied the rein to a green apple-tree, and saw in a sunlit glade the hut with its flowers and leaves Then the King cast his cloak with its fine buckle of gold and drew his sword froain in his heart that they or he should die And he signed to the woodone

He came alone into the hut, sword bare, and watched them as they lay: but he saw that they were apart, and he wondered because between them was the naked blade

Then he said to himself: "My God, I ether in this wood, these two lovers, yet is the sword here between then Therefore I will not slay, for that would be treason and wrong, but I will do so that when they wake they may know that I found them here, asleep, and spared them and that God had pity on them both"

And still the sunbea took his erainst the crevice whence it shone

Then in her sleep a vision careat wood and two lions near her fought for her, and she gave a cry and woke, and the gloves fell upon her breast; and at the cry Tristan woke, and olden hilt that it was the King's And the Queen saw on her finger the King's ring, and she cried: "O,has found us here!"

And Tristan said: "He has taken my sword; he was alone, but he will return, and will burn us before the people Let us fly"

So by great marches with Gorvenal alone they fled towards Wales