This Tristram lives like any hound."

Then as she shook her curls and laughed,

And flashed on Isolt looks of scorn,

Trailing her glimmering jewels past,

"I met a madman yestermorn

Within the forest. Wild, aghast

He stood, all naked in the rain,

'Twas Tristram, he of Lyonesse,

A good knight once, but now—" Again

She laughed, then sneered.—And one might guess