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Tristram

expelled from Cornwall by King Mark for ten years. [Br. Lit.: Le Morte d’Arthur]

Tristram

or Tristan falsely told that Iseult is not coming to save him from fatal poisoning, he dies of despair. [Medieval Legend: Brewer Dictionary]
See: Despair
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