Therefore I will not slay, for that would be treason and wrong,
but I will do so that when they wake they may know that I found them
here, asleep, and spared them and that God had pity on them both."
And still the sunbeam fell upon the white face of Iseult, and the King
took his ermined gloves and put them up against the crevice whence it
shone.
Then in her sleep a vision came to Iseult. She seemed to be in a great
wood and two lions near her fought for her, and she gave a cry and
woke, and the gloves fell upon her breast; and at the cry Tristan
woke, and made to seize his sword, and saw by the golden hilt that it
was the King's. And the Queen saw on her finger the King's ring, and
she cried:
"O, my lord, the King has found us here!"
And Tristan said:
"He has taken my sword; he was alone, but he will return, and will
burn us before the people. Let us fly."
So by great marches with Gorvenal alone they fled towards Wales.
OGRIN THE HERMIT
After three days it happened that Tristan, in following a wounded deer
far out into the wood, was caught by night-fall, and took to thinking
thus under the dark wood alone:
"It was not fear that moved the King ... he had my sword and I slept ...
and had he wished to slay, why did he leave me his own blade? .
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