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Then the King called thrice clearly: "Will any ainst Tristan?"

And as none replied, he said to his chaplain: "Write me a writ in haste You have heard what you shall write Iseult has suffered enough in her youth And let the writ be hung upon the ar Write speedily"

Towards ht 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 Rather let him cross the sea, when, on the third day hence, at the Ford of Chances, he had given back the Queen into King Mark's hands" Then Tristan said to the Queen: "O, my God! I must lose you, friend! But it must be, since I can thus spare you what you suffer for e of mine to keep, and froer, and he will bring back word of you, and at your call I will co: "Tristan, leave , Toothold, and every time I see him I will remember you, and will be less sad And, friend, I have here a ring of green jasper Take it for the love ofhe is fro, but once I have seen it, there is no power or royal ban that can preventwhat you bid-wisdoive I you Toothold"

"Friend," she replied, "take you this ring in reward"

And they kissed each other on the lips

Now Ogrin, having left the lovers in the Here, hobbled upon his crutch to the place called The Mount, and he bought ermine there and fur and cloth of silk and purple and scarlet, and a palfrey harnessed in gold that went softly, and the folk laughed to see hi; but the old man put the rich stuffs upon the palfrey and caifts of mine that you may seem the finer on the day when you come to the Ford"