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deeds have I done for her, and my madness is from her alone."
"What is your name?" they said, and laughed.
"Tristan," said he, "that loved the Queen so well, and still till death will love her."
But at the name the Queen angered and weakened together, and said: "Get hence for an evil fool!"
But the fool, marking her anger, 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 mother healed me with strange drugs. Have you no memory, Queen?"
But Iseult answered:
"Out, fool, out! Your folly and you have passed the bounds!"
But the fool, still playing, pushed the barons out, crying:
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