TRISTAN AND ISEULT
strewn between; and outside in the moonlight the dwarf read the heavens and knew what had been done and he cried:
"Enter, my King, and if you do not hold them, hang me high."
Then the King and the dwarf and the four felons ran in with lights and noise, and though Tristan had regained his place there was the blood for witness, and though Iseult feigned sleep, and Perinis too, who lay at Tristan's feet, yet there was the blood for witness. And the King looked in silence at the blood where it lay upon the bed and the boards and trampled into the flour.
And the four barons held Tristan down upon his bed and mocked the Queen also, promising her full justice; and they bared and showed the wound whence the blood flowed.
Then the King said:
"Tristan, now nothing longer holds. To-morrow you shall die."
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