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Title: The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay
Author: Maurice Hewlett
Release Date: January 26, 2005 [EBook #14813]
Language: English
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Di quella fera alla gaietta pelle.
Inf. i. 41.
NEW YORK
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON; MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.
1901
Set up and electrotyped October, 1900. Reprinted November,
December, twice, 1900; January, February, twice, 1901
Norwood Press
J.B. Cushing & Co.Berwick & Smith
Norwood Mass. U.S.A.
TO
HIS FRIEND
EDMUND GOSSE
(ALWAYS BENEVOLENT TO HIS INVENTION)
THIS CHRONICLE OF
ANJOU AND A NOBLE LADY
IS DEDICATED
BY
M.H.
PAGE | |
The Abbot Milo urbi el orbi, concerning the Nature of the Leopard | 3 |
Of Count Richard, and the Fires by Night | 5 |
How the Fair Jehane bestowed herself | 18 |
In what Harbour they found the Old Lion | 29 |
How Jehane stroked what Alois had made Fierce | 41 |
How Bertran de Born and Count Richard strove in a Tenzon | 56 |
Fruits of the Tenzon: the Back of Saint-Pol, and the Front of Montferrat | 69 |
Of the Crackling of Thorns under Pots | 84 |
How they held Richard off from his Father's Throat | 93 |
Wild Work in the Church of Gisors | 102 |
Night-work by the Dark Tower | 111 |
Of Prophecy; and Jehane in the Perilous Bed | 123 |
How they bayed the Old Lion | 134 |
How they met at Fontevrault | 145 |
Of what King Richard said to the Bowing Rood; and what Jehane to King Richard | 156 |
Last Tenzon of Bertran de Born | 168 |
Conversation in England of Jehane the Fair | 179 |
Frozen Heart and Red Heart: Cahors | 193 |
The Chapter called Mate-Grifon | 209 |
Of what Jehane looked for, and what Berengre had | 220 |
Who Fought at Acre | 235 |
Concerning the Tower of Flies, Saint-Pol, and the Marquess of Montferrat | 248 |
The Chapter of Forbidding: how De Gurdun looked, and King Richard hid his Face | 262 |
The Chapter called Clytemnestra | 282 |
The Chapter of the Sacrifice on Lebanon; also called Cassandra | 293 |
Of the Going-up and Going-down of the Marquess | 302 |
How King Richard reaped what Jehane had sowed, and the Soldan was Gleaner | 311 |
The Chapter called Bonds | 327 |
The Chapter called A Latere | 338 |
The Chapter of Strife in the Dark | 350 |
Of the Love of Women | 362 |
How the Leopard was loosed | 369 |
Oeconomic Reflections of the Old Man of Musse | 380 |
The Chapter called Chaluz | 386 |
The Keening | 396 |
408 |
I like this good man's account of leopards, and find it more pertinent to my matter than you might think. Milo was a Carthusian monk, abbot of the cloister of Saint Mary-of-the-Pine by Poictiers; it was his distinction to be the life-long friend of a man whose friendships were few: certainly it may be said of him that he knew as much of leopards as any one of his time and nation, and that his knowledge was better grounded.
'Your leopard,' he writes, 'is alleged in the books to be offspring of the Lioness and the Pard; and his name, if the Realists have any truth on their side, establishes the fact. But I think he should be called Leolup, which is to say, got by lion out of bitch-wolf, since two essences burn in him as well as two sorts. This is the nature of the leopard: it is a spotted beast, having two souls, a bright soul and a dark soul. It is black and golden, slim and strong, cat and dog. Hunger drives a dog to hunt, so the leopard; passion the cat, so the leopard. A cat is sufficient unto himself, and a leopard is so; but a dog hangs on a man's nod, and a leopard can so be beguiled. A leopard is sleek as a cat and pleased by stroking; like a cat he will scratch his friend on occasion. Yet again, he has a dog's intrepidity, knows no fear, is single-purposed, not to be called off, longanimous. But the cat in him makes him wary, tempts him to treacherous dealing, keeps him apart from counsels, advises him to keep his own. So the leopard is a lonely beast.' This is interesting, and may be true. But mark him as he goes on.
'I knew the man, my dear master and a great king, who brought the leopards into the shield of England, more proper to do it than his father, being more the thing he signified. Of him, therefore, torn by two natures, cast in two moulds, sport of two fates; the hymned and reviled, the loved and loathed, spendthrift and a miser, king and a beggar, the bond and the free, god and man; of King Richard Yea-and-Nay, so made, so called, and by that unmade, I thus prepare my account.'
So far the abbot with much learning and no little verbosity casts his net. He has the weakness of his age, you observe, and must begin at the beginning; but this is not our custom. Something of Time is behind us; we are conscious of a world replete, and may assume that we have digested part of it. Milo, indeed, like all candid chroniclers, has his value. He is excellent upon himself, a good relish with your meal. However, as we are concerned with King Richard, you shall dip into his bag for refreshment, but must leave the victualling to me.
I choose to record how Richard Count of Poictou rode all through one smouldering night to see Jehane Saint-Pol a last time. It had so been named by the lady; but he rode in his hottest mood of Nay to that, yet careless of first or last so he could see her again. Nominally to remit his master's sins, though actually (as he thought) to pay for his own, the Abbot Milo bore him company, if company you can call it which left the good man, in pitchy dark, some hundred yards behind. The way, which was long, led over Saint Andrew's Plain, the bleakest stretch of the Norman march; the pace, being Richard's, was furious, a pounding gallop; the prize, Richard's again, showed fitfully and afar, a twinkling point of light. Count Richard knew it for Jehane's torch, and saw no other spark; but Milo, faintly curious on the lady's account, was more concerned with the throbbing glow which now and again shuddered in the northern sky. Nature had no lamps that night, and made no sign by cry of night-bird or rustle of scared beast: there was no wind, no rain, no dew; she offered nothing but heat, dark, and dense oppression. Topping the ridge of sand, where was the Fosse des Noyes, place of shameful death, the solitary torch showed a steady beam; and there also, ahead, could be seen on the northern horizon that rim of throbbing light.
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