FOOTNOTES:
[9] I. e., gifted, endowed with parts.
[10] See "Shakespeare's Scholar," passim.
[11] Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and one of the editors of the Cambridge edition.
THE PHILTER.
A LEGEND OF KING ARTHUR'S TIME.
Dying afar in Brittany,
The gallant Tristram lay;
His gentle bride's sweet ministry,
Her tender touch and way,
That erstwhile brought the rest he sought,
No more held soothing sway.
The naming of her tuneful name,
Isoude—so sweet to hear
Because its music was the same
With one long holden dear—
Now, like a bell discordant, fell,
And brought but mocking cheer.
Her eyne so blue, with lids so white,
Her tresses from their snood,
That rippling ambered all the light
About her where she stood,
Served only now to cloud his brow
Who longed for lost Isoude—