THE ROMANCE OF
Urgan's son, I know, and like your father."
And when he was within the courts the serving men ran after him and cried:
"The fool! the fool!"
But he made play with them though they cast stones and struck him as they laughed, and in the midst of laughter and their cries, as the rout followed him, he came to that hall where, at the Queen's side, King Mark sat under his canopy.
And as he neared the door with his club at his neck, the King said:
"Here is a merry fellow, let him in."
And they brought him in, his club at his neck. And the King said:
"Friend, well come; what seek you here?"
"Iseult," said he, "whom I love so well; I bring my sister with me, Brunehild, the beautiful. Come, take her, you are weary of the Queen. Take
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