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"Sire, I aered at the hunt"

"My lord, should one take so deeply the a vexed me, but those three felons whom you know; and I have driven them forth from my land"

"Sire, what did they say, or dare to say of me?"

"Whathave this right: to say the word they have conceived And I would ask a question, but fron land, and have no one else to defend me"

"They would have it that you should quit yourself by sole 'that God was a true judge, and that as the Queen was innocent, she herself should seek such judgment as would clear her for ever' This was their clamour and their demand incessantly But let us leave it I tell you, I have driven them forth"

Iseult tre, she said: "Sire, call theain this: that on the appointed day you call King Arthur and Lord Gawain, Girflet, Kay the Seneschal, and a hundred of his knights to ride to the Sandy Heath where your land marches with his, and a river flows between; for I will not swear before your barons alone, lest they should de, and lest there should be no end to hts, be there, the barons will not dare dispute the judgment"

But as the heralds rode to Carduel, Iseult sent to Tristan secretly her squire Perinis: and he ran through the underwood, avoiding paths, till he found the hut of Orri, the woodman, where Tristan for many days had awaited news Perinis told him all: the ordeal, the place, and the time, and added: "My lord, the Queen would have you on that day and place corim, so that none e -to the Sandy Heath She must cross the river to the place appointed Beyond it, where Arthur and his hundred knights will stand, be you also; for ment, but she trusts in God"

Then Tristan answered: "Go back, friend Perinis, return you to the Queen, and say that I will do her bidding"