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Then the porter said: "Coan's son, I know, and like your father"

And when he ithin the courts the serving men ran after him and cried: "The fool! the fool!"

But he h they cast stones and struck hihter and their cries, as the rout followed hi Mark sat under his canopy

And as he neared the door with his club at his neck, the King said: "Here is a ht hi said: "Friend, well come; what seek you here?"

"Iseult," said he, "who my sister with me, Brunehild, the beautiful Come, take her, you are weary of the Queen Take you ive me here Iseult, and I will hold her and serve you for her love"

The King said laughing: "Fool, if I gave you the Queen, where would you take her, pray?"

"Oh! very high," he said, "between the clouds and heaven, into a fair chah it, yet the winds do not trouble it at all There would I bear the Queen into that crystal cha"

The King and his barons laughed and said: "Here is a good fool at no loss for words"

But the fool as he sat at their feet gazed at IseultMark, "arrant have you that the Queen would heed so foul a fool as you?"

"O! Sire," he answered gravely, "many deeds have I done for her, and my madness is frohed

"Tristan," said he, "that loved the Queen so well, and still till death will love her"

But at the naether, and said: "Get hence for an evil fool!"

But the fool, er, went on: "Queen Iseult, do you mind the day, when, poisoned by the Morholt's spear, I took my harp to sea and fell upon your shore? Your s Have you no memory, Queen?"

But Iseult answered: "Out, fool, out! Your folly and you have passed the bounds!"