TRISTAN AND ISEULT
place of which you told me long ago. The fields whence none return, but where great singers sing their songs for ever. Take me now."
"I will take you to the Happy Palace of the living, Queen! The time is near. We have drunk all joy and sorrow. The time is near. When it is finished, if I call you, will you come, my friend?"
"Friend," said she, "call me and you know that I shall come."
"Friend," said he, "God send you His reward."
As he went out the spies would have held him; but he laughed aloud, and flourished his club, and cried:
"Peace, gentlemen, I go and will not stay. My lady sends me to prepare that shining house I vowed her, of crystal, and of rose shot through with morning."
And as they cursed and drave him, the fool went leaping on his way.
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