The love between Sir Tristram and the Queen in Chevrefoil is likened to the relationship between a honeysuckle vine and a hazel tree. If you try to remove the honeysuckle vine from the hazel tree, they both die. So when the King banished Sir Tristram from his kingdom, both Sir Tristram and the Queen felt like they had died inside without their mutual love.
Sir Tristram could not stay away from the Queen and decided to return to Cornwall and see the Queen secretly. Sir Tristram hears about the King's sport day the King is hosting at his castle with the Queen.
Tristram decides he must see the Queen so he hides along a frequently traveled grove path and carves a staff to attract the Queen's attention as she passes. Sir Tristram's plan works and the Queen dismounts her horse to observe the carved staff. The Queen steps off the path and finds Tristram and is overcome with excitement. The Queen advises Tristram on how to make peace with the King and leaves Tristram weeping. Tristram wrote a lai about his events with the Queen so he would not forget them and called the lai "Goatleaf".
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