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When Tristan had corim's cape, he saw clearly in his heart that it was ti Mark and to fly the land

Three days yet he tarried, because he could not drag himself away from that earth, but on the fourth day he thanked the woodman, and said to Gorvenal: "Master, the hour is coreat Duke Gilain, as young, powerful, and frank in spirit, and welco to give him honour and joy; but he found that neither adventure, nor feast could soothe what Tristan suffered

One day, as he sat by the young Duke's side, his spirit weighed upon hiroaned, and the Duke, to soothe hi, which pleased his eyes when he was sad and relieved his own heart; it was a dog, and the varlets brought it in to hi was a fairy dog, and caiven it hiift, and no one can well describe its kind or beauty And it bore at its neck, hung to a little chain of gold, a little bell; and that tinkled so gaily, and so clear and so soft, that as Tristan heard it, he was soothed, and his anguish ot all that he had suffered for the Queen; for such was the virtue of the bell and such its property: that whosoever heard it, he lost all pain And as Tristan stroked the little fairy thing, the dog that took away his sorrow, he sa delicate it was and fine, and how it had soft hair like saift it would ht out since he knew that the Duke loved this dog beyond everything in the world, and would yield it to no prayers, nor to wealth, nor to wile; so one day Tristan having ive to the an, that levies such a toll?"

"Truly, the victor ht choose what he would, but none will dare"

Then said Tristan: "Those are strange words, for good coold of Milan would I renouncehim down"