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"My lady!" said Brangien, "soothe you You curse over much these days May be he coo find hiien went to the hall where the fool still sat alone Tristan knew her and let fall his club and said: "Brangien, dear Brangien, before God! have pity on ht youBy my head, that once was fair, if I am mad the blame is yours, for it was yours to watch over the e drank on the high seas The cup was of silver and I held it to Iseult and she drank Do you remember, lady?"

"No," she said, and as she trembled and left he called out: "Pity me!"

He followed and saw Iseult He stretched out his arony she drew back, and Tristan angered and said: "I have lived too long, for I have seen the day that Iseult will nothing ofwater that floods and runs large is a ; so love that turns"

But she said "Brother, I look at you and doubt and tremble, and I know you not for Tristan"

"Queen Iseult, I am Tristan indeed that do love you; mind you for the last time of the dwarf, and of the flower, and of the blood I shed inI took in kisses and in tears on the day we parted I have kept that jasper ring and asked it counsel"

Then Iseult knew Tristan for what he was, and she said: "Heart, you should have broken of sorrow not to have known the man who has suffered so much for you Pardon, my master and my friend"

And her eyes darkened and she fell; but when the light returned she was held by him who kissed her eyes and her face

So passed they three full days But, on the third, two maids that watched them told the traitor Andret, and he put spies well-armed before the women's rooms And when Tristan would enter they cried: "Back, fool!"

But he brandished his club laughing, and said: "What! May I not kiss the Queen who loves me and awaits me now?"