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KURVENAL.

Up, up, ye ladies!

Look alert!

Straight bestir you!

Loiter not,—here is the land!—

To dame Isolda

says the servant

of Tristan,

our hero true:—

Behold our flag is flying!

it waveth landwards aloft:

in Mark's ancestral castle

may our approach be seen.

So, dame Isolda,

he prays to hasten,

for land straight to prepare her,

that thither he may bear her.

ISOLDA (who has at first cowered and shuddered on hearing the message, now speaks calmly and with dignity).

My greeting take

unto your lord

and tell him what I say now:

Should he assist to land me

and to King Mark would he hand me,

unmeet and unseemly

were his act,

the while my pardon

was not won

for trespass black and base:

So bid him seek my grace.

Now mark me well,

This message take:—

Nought will I yet prepare me,

that he to land may bear me;

I will not by him be landed,

nor unto King Mark be handed

ere granting forgiveness

and forgetfulness,

which 'tis seemly

he should seek:—

for all his trespass base

I tender him my grace.

KURVENAL.

Be assured,

I'll bear your words:

we'll see what he will say!