ABSTRACT
I am both pleased and eager To tell you the truth about a lai Entitled “The Honeysuckle”: Why it was composed and how it came about.
5 Many people have recited it to me, And I have also found it in written form. It concerns Tristan and the queen And their wondrous love, Which caused them great pain
10 And eventually made them die on the very same day. King Mark was angry
With his nephew Tristan, And so he banished him from his land Because of the young man’s love for the queen.
