TRISTAN AND ISEULT
is a mighty thing; on the day that it fails it is nothing; 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 in my leap. Oh! and of that ring I 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,
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