The earliest dawning of a December’s morning had not yet tinged3 the eastern sky, when in the port of Barfleur the stirring bustle4 which precedes an embarkation5 broke loudly on the ear of all who were on foot at that unseemly hour; nor were these few in number, for all the population of that town—far more considerable than it appears at present, when mightier6 cities, some rendered so by the gigantic march of commerce, some by the puissant7 and creative hands of military despotism, have sprung on every side into existence, and overshadowed its antique renown—were hastening through the narrow streets toward the water’s edge. The many-paned, stone-latticed casements8 gleamed with a thousand lights, casting a cheerful glare over the motley multitude which swarmed9 before them with all the frolic merriment of an unwonted holyday. All classes and all ranks might there be seen, of every age and sex: barons11 and lords of high degree, clad in the rich attires12 of a half-barbarous74 yet gorgeous age, mounted on splendid horses, and attended by long retinues13 of armed and liveried vassals14; ladies and demoiselles of birth and beauty curbing15 their Spanish jennets, and casting sidelong looks of love toward the favored knights17 curveting in the conscious state of proud humility18 beside their bridle-reins—as clearly visible as at high noon, in the broad radiance of the torches that accompanied their progress; while all around them and behind crowded the humbler throng19 of mariners21 and artisans, with here a solemn burgher, proud in his velvet22 pourpoint and his golden chain, and there a barefoot monk23, far prouder in his frock of sackcloth and his knotted girdle; and ever and anon a group of merry maidens24, with their high Norman caps and short jupons of parti-colored serge, crowding around the jongleurC with his ape and gittern—or pressing on to hear the loftier professorD of the gai-science, girded with sword and dagger25 in token of his gentle blood, and followed by his boy bearing the harp26, which then had power to win, not with the low-born and vulgar throng, but with the noble and the fair, high favor for its wandering master!
B The title given by the chroniclers to this ill-fated vessel27 is “The Blanche Nef,” the latter word being the old French for the modern term, which we have substituted. Singularly enough, the ancient word survives as the name of a piece of antique gold plate modelled like a ship, in which the napkins of the royal table are served in the high ceremonials of the court of France.
C The juggler28 of the middle ages, who, like the street-musicians of the present time, were mostly Savoyards by birth, generally carried with them the ape or marmoset, even to this day their companion, and added to their feats29 of strength and sleight30 of hand both minstrelsey and music.
D The gai-science, so early as the commencement of the century of which we write, had its degrees, its colleges, and its professors, who, though itinerants31, and dependent for their subsistence on their instrument and voice, considered war no less their trade than song, esteeming32 themselves, and moreover admitted by others to be, in the fullest sense, gentlemen.
The courts and thoroughfares of the old town—for it was old even then—by slow degrees grew silent and deserted33; and, ere the sun was well above the wave, the multitudes which thronged34 them had rolled downward to the port, and stood in dense35 ranks gazing on its calm and sheltered basin. Glorious indeed and lovely was the sight when the first yellow rays streamed over the still waters: they waked the distant summits75 of the hills behind the town into a sudden life; they kissed the crest36 of every curling ripple37 that dimpled with its “innumerable laughter” the azure38 face of ocean; but, more than all, they seemed to dwell upon two noble barks, which lay, each riding at a single anchor, at a short arrow-shot from the white sands that girt as with a silver frame the liquid mirror of the harbor.
Fashioned by the best skill of that early day, and ornamented39 with the most lavish40 splendor41, though widely different from the floating castles of modern times, those vessels—the picked cruisers of the British navy—were in their structure no less picturesque42 than in their decoration royally magnificent. Long, low, and buoyant, they floated lightly as birds upon the surface; their open waists already bristling43 with the long oars44 by which, after the fashion of the Roman galley45, they were propelled in serene46 weather; their masts clothed with the wings which seemed in vain to woo the breeze; their elevated sterns and forecastles blazing with tapestries47 of gold and silver, reflected in long lines of light, scarcely broken by the dancing ripples48. The larger of the two bore on her foresail, blazoned49 in gorgeous heraldry, the arms of England. The second, somewhat smaller, but if anything more elegant in her proportions, and fitted with a nicer taste, although less sumptuous50, was painted white from stem to stern; her oars, fifty in number, of the same spotless hue51, were barred upon the blades with silver; and on her foresail of white canvass52, overlaid with figured damask, were wrought53, among a glittering profusion54 of devices, in characters of silver, the words “La Blanche Navire.” Beyond them, in the outer bay, a dozen ships or more were dimly seen through the mist-wreaths which the wintry sun was gradually scattering—their canvass hanging in festoons from their long yard-arms, and their decks crowded, not with mariners alone, but with the steel-clad forms of men-at-arms and archers55, the gallant56 train of the third Norman who had swayed the destinies76 of England.
The youngest son of the sagacious Conqueror57, after the death of the “Red king,” by a rare union of audacity58 and cunning, Henry, had seized the sceptre of the fair island—the hereditary59 right of his romantic, generous, and gallant brother, who with the feudatories of his Norman duchy was waging war upon the Saracen, neglectful of his own and of his subjects’ interests alike, beneath the burning sun of Syria. Already firmly seated in his usurped60 dominion61 ere Robert returned homeward, nor yet contented62 with his ill-gained supremacy63, he had wrung64 from the bold crusader, partly by force but more by fraud, his continental65 realms; and adding cruelty which scarcely can be conceived to violence and fraud, deprived him of Heaven’s choicest blessing67, sight, and cast him—of late the most renowned68 and glorious knight16 in Christendom—a miserable69, eyeless captive into the towers of Cardiff, his dungeon70 while he lived, and after death his tomb!
No retributive justice had discharged its thunders upon the guilty one; no gloom sat on his smooth and lordly brow, no thorns had lurked71 beneath the circle of Henry’s blood-bought diadem72. Fortune had smiled on every effort; had granted every wish, however wild; had sanctioned every enterprise, however dubious73 or desperate: he never had known sorrow; and from his restless, energetic soul, remorse74 and penitence75 were banished76 by the incessant77 turmoil78 of ambition and the perpetual excitement of success. And now his dearest wish had been accomplished79—the most especial aim and object of his life perfected with such absolute security, that his insatiate soul was satisfied. Absolute lord of England, and undisputed ruler of the fair Cotentin, he had of late disarmed80 the league which for a time had threatened his security; detaching from the cause of France the powerful count of Anjou, whose daughter—the most lovely lady and the most splendid heiress of the time—he77 had seen wedded81 to his first-born and his favorite, William. The previous day he had beheld82 the haughty83 barons tender the kiss of homage84 and swear eternal loyalty85 to the young heir of England, Normandy, and Anjou; the previous night he had sat glad and glorious at the festive86 board, encompassed87 by all that was fair, and noble, and high-born, in the great realms he governed, and among all that proud and graceful88 circle his eye had looked on none so brave and beautiful as that young, guiltless pair for whom he had imbrued, not his hands only, but his very soul, in blood! He sat on the high dais, beneath the gilded89 canopy90; and as he quaffed91 the health of those who had alone a kindly93 tenure94 of his cold and callous95 heart, a noble knight approached with bended knee, and placing in his hand a mark of gold—“Fair sir,” he said, “I, a good knight and loyal—Thomas Fitz-Stephen—claim of your grace a boon96. My father, Stephen Fitz-Evrard, served faithfully and well, as long as he did live, your father William—served him by sea, and steered98 the ship with his own hand which bore him to that glorious crown which he right nobly won at Hastings. I pray you, then, fair king, that you do sell to me, for this gold mark, the fief I crave99 of you: that, as Fitz-Evrard served the first King William, so may Fitz-Stephen serve the first King Henry. I have right nobly fitted—ay, on mine honor, as beseems a mighty100 monarch101—here, in the bay of Barfleur, ‘the Blanche Navire.’ Receive it at my hands, great sir, and suffer me to steer97 you homeward; and so may the blessed Virgin102 and her Son send us the winds which we would have!”
“Good knight and loyal,” answered the prince, as he received the proffered103 coin, “grieved am I, of a truth, and sorrowful, that altogether I may not confer on you the fief which of good right you claim: for lo! the bark is chosen—nay, more, apparelled for my service—which must to-morrow, by Heaven’s mercy, bear me to that land whither your sire so fortunately guided78 mine. But since it may not be that I may sail myself, as would I could do so, in your good bark, to your true care will I intrust what I hold dearer than my very soul—my sons, my daughters—mine and my country’s hope; and as your father steered the FIRST, so shall you steer the THIRD King William, that shall be, to the white cliffs of England!”
“Well said, my liege!” cried Foulke, the count of Anjou, a noble-looking baron10 of tall and stately presence, although far past the noon of manhood, the father of the lovely bride; “to better mariner20 or braver ship than stout104 Fitz-Stephen and La Blanche Navire, was never freight intrusted! Quaff92 we a full carouse105 to their blithe106 voyage! How sayest thou, daughter mine,” he added, turning to the blushing girl, who sat attired107 in all the pomp of newly-wedded royalty108 beside her youthful lover—“how sayest thou? wouldst desire a trustier pilot, or a fleeter galley?”
“Why,” she replied, with a smile half-sweet, half-sorrowful, while a bright tear-drop glittered in her eye—“why should I seek for fleetness, when that same speed will but the sooner bear me from the sight of our fair France, and of thee, too, my father?”
“Dost thou, then, rue66 thy choice?” whispered the ardent109 voice of William in her ear; “and wouldst thou tarry here, when fate and duty summon me hence for England?”
Her full blue eye met his, radiant with true affection, and her slight fingers trembled in the clasp of her young husband with a quick thrill of agitation110, and her lips parted, but the words were heard by none save him to whom they were addressed; for, with the clang of beakers, and the loud swell111 of joyous112 music, and the glad merriment of all the courtly revellers, the toast of the bride’s father passed round the gleaming board: “A blithe and prosperous voyage—speed to the Blanche Navire, and joy to all who sail in her!”
79 Thus closed the festive evening, and thus the seal of destiny was set upon a hundred youthful brows, foredoomed, alas113! to an untimely grave beneath the ruthless billows.
The wintry day wore onward114; and, wintry though it was, save for a touch of keenness in the frosty air, and for the leafless aspect of the country, it might have passed for a more lightsome season; the sky was pure and cloudless as were the prospects115 and the hopes of the gay throng who now embarked116 secure and confident beneath its favorable omens117. The sun shone gayly as in the height of summer, and the blue waves lay sleeping in its lustre118 as quietly as though they ne’er had howled despair into the ears of drowning wretches119! There was no thought of peril120 or of fear—how should there be? The ships were trustworthy; the seamen121 skilful122, numerous, and hardy123; the breezes fair, though faint; the voyage brief; the time propitious124.
The day wore onward; and it was high noon before the happy king—his every wish accomplished, secure as he conceived himself, and firm in the fruition of his blood-bought majesty—rowed with his glittering train on board the royal galley. Loud pealed125 the cheering clamors of his Norman subjects, bidding their sovereign hail; but louder yet they pealed, when, with its freight of ladies, the second barge126 shot forth127—William and his fair sister, and yet fairer bride, and all the loveliest of the dames128 that graced the broad Cotentin.
Not yet, however, were the anchors weighed—not yet were the sails sheeted home; for on the deck of the king’s vessel, beneath an awning2 of pure cloth-of-gold, a gorgeous board was spread. Not in the regal hall of Westminster could more of luxury have been brought together than was displayed upon that galley’s poop. Spread with the softest ermine—meet carpet for the gentle feet that trod it—cushioned with seats of velvet, steaming with perfumes the most costly129, it was a scene resembling more some fairy palace than the wave-beaten fabric80 that had braved many a gale130, and borne the flag of England through many a storm in triumph. And there they sat and feasted, and the red wine-cup circled freely, and the song went round: their hearts were high and happy, and they forgot the lapse131 of hours; and still the reveller’s shout was frequent on the breeze, and still the melody of female tones, blent with the clang of instrumental music, rang in the ears of those who loitered on the shore, after the sun had bathed his lower limb in the serene and peaceful waters.
Then, as it were, awaking from their trance of luxury, the banqueters broke off. Skiff after skiff turned shoreward, till none remained on board the royal ship except the monarch and his train, and that loved son with his bright consort132, whom, parting from them there, he never was to look upon again! The courses were unfurled, topsails were spread, and pennants133 floated seaward; and, as the good ship gathered way, the father bade adieu—adieu, as he believed it, but for one little night—to all he loved on earth; and their barge, manned by a score of powerful and active rowers, wafted134 the bridal party to the Blanche Navire, which, as her precious freight drew nigh, luffed gracefully136 and swiftly up to meet them, as though she were a thing of life, conscious and proud of the high honor she enjoyed in carrying the united hopes of Normandy and England.
Delay—there was yet more delay! The night had settled down upon the deep before the harbor of Barfleur was fairly left behind; and yet so lovely was the night—with the moon, near her full, soaring superbly through the cloudless sky, and myriads137 on myriads of clear stars weaving their mystic dance around her—that the young voyagers walked to and fro the deck, rejoicing in the happy chance that had secured to them so fair time for their excursion: and William sat aloof138, with his sweet wife beside him, indulging in those bright anticipations,81 those golden dreams of happiness, which indeed make futurity a paradise to those who have not learned, by the sad schoolings of experience, that human life is but another name for human sorrow.
Fairer—the breeze blew fairer; and every sail was set and drawing, and the light ripples burst with a gurgling sound like laughter about the snow-white stem; and, still to waft135 them the more swiftly to their home, fifty long oars, pulled well and strongly by as many nervous arms, glanced in the liquid swell. The bubbles on the surface were scarcely seen as they flashed by, so rapid was their course; and a long wake of boiling foam140 glanced in the moonshine, till it was lost to sight in the far distance. The port was far behind them; and the king’s ship, seen faintly on the glimmering141 horizon, loomed142 like a pile of vapor143 far on their starboard bow. And still the music rang upon the favorable wind, and still the rowers sang amid their toil144, and still the captain sent the deep bowl round. The helmsman dozed145 upon the tiller—the watch upon the forecastle had long since stretched themselves upon the deck—in the deep slumbers146 of exhaustion147 and satiety148.
“Give way! my merry men, give way!” such was the jovial149 captain’s cry; “pull for the pride of Normandy—pull for your country’s fame, men of the fair Cotentin. What! will ye let yon island-lubbers outstrip150 ye in the race? More way! more way!”
And with unrivalled speed the Blanche Navire sped on. A long black line stretches before her bow, dotting the silvery surface with ragged151 and fantastic shades; but not one eye has marked it! On she goes, swifter yet and swifter, and still the fatal shout is ringing from her decks: “Give way, men of Cotentin! give more way!” Now they are close upon it, and now the dashing of the surf about the broken ledges—for that black line is the dread153 Raz de Gatteville, the most tremendous82 reef of all that bar the iron coast of Normandy! The hoarse154 and hollow roar must reach the ears even of those who sleep. But no! the clangor of the exulting155 trumpets156, and the deep booming of the Norman nakir, and that ill-omened shout, “Give way—yet more—more way!” has drowned even the all-pervading roar of the wild breakers. On, on she goes, fleet as the gazehound darting157 upon its antlered prey158; and now her bows are bathed by the upflashing spray; and now—hark to that hollow shock, that long and grinding crash!—hark to that wild and agonizing159 yell sent upward by two hundred youthful voices, up to the glorious stars that smiled as if in mockery of their ruin. There rang the voice of the strong, fearless men; the knight who had spurred oft his destrier amid the shivering of lances and the rending160 clash of blades, without a thought unless of high excitement and fierce joy; the mariner who, undismayed, had reefed his sail, and steered his bark aright, amid the wildest storm that ever lashed139 the sea to fury—now utterly161 unnerved and paralyzed by the appalling162 change from mirth and revelry to imminent163 and instant death.
So furious was the rate at which the galley was propelled, that, when she struck upon the sharp and jagged rocks, her prow164 was utterly stove inward, and the strong tide rushed in, foaming165 and roaring like a mill-stream! Ten seconds’ space she hung upon the perilous166 ledge152, while the waves made a clear breach167 over her, sweeping not only every living being, but every fixture—spars, bulwarks168, shrouds169, and the tall masts themselves—from her devoted170 decks. At the first shock, with the instinctive171 readiness that characterizes, in whatever peril, the true mariner, Fitz-Stephen, rallying to his aid a dozen of the bravest of his men, had cleared away and launched a boat; and, even as the fated bark went down, bodily sucked into the whirling surf, had seized the prince and dragged him with a stalwart arm into the little skiff, which had put off at once, to83 shun172 the drowning hundreds who must have crowded in and sunk her on the instant.
“Pull back!—God’s death!—pull back!” cried the impetuous youth, as he looked round and saw that he alone of all his race was there; “pull back, ye dastard173 slaves, or by the Lord and Maker174 of us all, though ye escape the waves, ye ’scape not my revenge!”—and, as he spoke175, he whirled his weapon from the scabbard and pressed the point so closely to Fitz-Stephen’s throat, that its keen temper razed176 the skin; and, terrified by his fierce menaces, and yet more by the resolute177 expression that glanced forth from his whole countenance178, they turned her head once more toward the reef, and shot into the vortex, agitated179 yet and boiling, wherein the hapless galley had been swallowed. A female head, with long, fair hair, rose close beside the shallop’s stern, above the turbulent foam. William bent180 forward: he had already clutched those golden tresses—a moment, and she would have been enfolded in his arms—another head rose suddenly! another—and another—and another! Twenty strong hands grappled the gunwale of the skiff with the tenacity181 of desperation. There was a struggle, a loud shout, a heavy plunge182, and the last remnant of the Blanche Navire went down, actually dragged from beneath the few survivors184 by the despairing hands of those whom she could not have saved or succored185 had she been of ten times her burden.
All, all went down! There was a long and awful pause, and then a slight splash broke the silence, a faint and gurgling sigh, and a strong swimmer rose and shook the brine from his dark locks; and lo, he was alone upon the deep! Something he saw at a brief distance, distinct and dark, floating upon the surface, and with a vigorous stroke he neared it—a fragment of a broken spar. Hope quickened at his heart, and love of life, almost forgotten in the immediate186 agony and terror, returned in all its natural strength. He seized a rope, and by its aid84 reared himself out of the abyss; and now he sat, securely as he deemed it, upon a floating fragment on which, one little hour before, he would not have embarked for all the wealth of India. Scarcely had he reached his temporary place of safety, before another of the sufferers swam feebly up and joined him, and then a third, the last of the survivors. The first who reached the spar—it was no other than Fitz-Stephen—had perused187 with an anxiety the most sickening and painful the faces of the new-comers: he knew them, but they were not the features he would have given his own life to see in safety—Berault, a butcher of Rouen, and Godfrey, a renowned and gallant youth, the son of Gilbert, count de L’Aigle. “The prince—where is the prince?” Fitz-Stephen cried to each, as he arrived; “hast thou not seen the prince?” And each, in turn, replied: “He never rose again—he, nor his brothers, nor his sister, nor his bride, nor one of all their company!”—“Wo be to me!” Fitz-Stephen cried, and letting go his hold, deliberately188 sank into the whirling waters; and, though a strong man and an active swimmer, chose to die with the victims whom his rashness had destroyed, rather than meet the indignation of their bereaved189 father, and bear the agonies of his own lifelong remorse.
Three days elapsed before the tidings reached King Henry, who in the fearful misery190 of hope deferred191 had lingered on the beach, trusting to hear that, from some unknown cause, the galley of his son might have put back to Barfleur. On the third day, Berault, the sole survivor183 of that night of misery, was brought in by a fishing-boat which had preserved him; and, when he had concluded his narration192, Robert of Normandy had been revenged, although his wrongs had been a hundred-fold more flagrant than they were. Henry, though he lived years, NEVER SMILED AGAIN!
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tenacity
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bereaved
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