(medieval legends) the nephew of King Mark of Cornwall who fell in love with his uncle's bride (Iseult) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other

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October, 1693, Sir Tristram and Lady Beresford went on a visit to her sister, Lady Macgill, at Gill Hall, now the seat of Lord Clanwilliam, whose grandmother was eventually the heiress of Sir J.

One morning Sir Tristram rose early, leaving Lady Beresford asleep, and went out for a walk before breakfast.

Sir Tristram endeavoured to console her, and begged her to restrain her grief, when she assured him that she felt relieved and easier now that she knew the actual fact.

Sir Tristram will not live long, when you will marry again, and you will die from the effects of childbirth in your forty-seventh year.

While I was conversing with him my thoughts were calm, but as soon as he disappeared I felt chilled with horror and dismay, a cold sweat came over me, and I again endeavoured but vainly to awaken Sir Tristram, a flood of tears came to my relief, and I fell asleep.

Sir Tristram made many anxious inquiries as to my health, especially as to my sprained wrist, as he conceived mine to be.

If I love you and you love me, never shall you be called Tristram, and never shall I be Iseult, for then the love would not be honourable.

What elixir of eternal love had they drunk together as had Tristram and Iseult of old time?

Kanaka has done what Tristram never did, and that he knows a joy of the sea that Tristram never knew.

Hope devotes so much serious and sympathetic study to the man called Tristram of Blent, a man who throughout burning boyhood thought of nothing but a silly old estate, we feel even in Mr.

Before him, seated in a semicircle, were most of the newly elected members of the Senate, a number of whom he knew from times past, including Langdon, Ellsworth, Richard Henry Lee, Ralph Izard of South Carolina, Robert Morris of Pennsylvania, and Tristram Dalton of Massachusetts, who had been a classmate at Harvard.

In the month of October, 1693, Sir Tristram and Lady Beresford went on a visit to her sister, Lady Macgill, at Gill Hall, now the seat of Lord Clanwilliam, whose grandmother was eventually the heiress of Sir J.

How Sir Tristram departed out of the field, and awaked Sir Dinadan, and changed his array into black .

Sir, said the barons, in especial Sir Dinas, the Seneschal, Sir, we will give you counsel for to send for Sir Tristram, for we will that ye wit many men will hold with Sir Tristram an he were hard bestead.

That same is he, said Sir Tristram, for he is the best bourder and japer, and a noble knight of his hands, and the best fellow that I know, and all good knights love his fellowship.