TRISTAN AND ISEULT
"To Tintagel," they said.
Then he cried out:
"Oh, my lords! take me with you thither!"
And he went aboard, and a fair wind filled the sail, and she ran five days and nights for Cornwall, till, on the sixth day, they dropped anchor in Tintagel Haven. The castle stood above, fenced all around. There was but the one armed gate, and two knights watched it night and day. So Tristan went ashore and sat upon the beach, and a man told him that Mark was there and had just held his court.
"But where," said he, "is Iseult, the Queen, and her fair maid, Brangien?"
"In Tintagel too," said the other, "and I saw them lately; the Queen sad, as she always is."
At the hearing of the name, Tristan suffered, and he thought that neither
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