I crave your pardon, Lords, pray take your seats.
Dinas.
Thou badst me come to thee.
Dinas.
Yes, Dinas, yes,
So take thy place.
(He controls his emotion with great difficulty
and speaks heavily.)
And ye, my noble friends,
Give ear. A great and careful reckoning shall
Take place 'twixt you and me. Your sanctioning word
I wish, for what I am about to do,
For yonder man has, with an evil lance,
Attacked me and he has so lifted me
Out of my saddle that my head doth swim,
And trembles from the shock, and so I pray
You to forgive the churlish greeting ye
Received; 'twas accident, not scorn. I bid
You welcome, one and all, most heartily.
3d Baron.
We greet thee, Mark.
Ganelun.
But tell us now what thing
So overclouds thy mind; thy welfare dwells
Close intertwined with ours.
Denovalin (unfolding the parchment).
And now, my Lords,
Are any of the witnesses not here
Who signed the contract and decree which Mark
Drew up with Tristram and with Queen Iseult!
1st Baron.
'Tis then of this decree that thou wouldst speak?
3d Baron.
I signed.
4th Baron.
And I.