That night the Company slept at St. Leonard's, in the great monastic barns and spicarium—ground well known both to Alleyne and to John, for they were almost within sight of the Abbey of Beaulieu. A strange thrill it gave to the young squire2 to see the well-remembered white dress once more, and to hear the measured tolling3 of the deep vespers bell. At early dawn they passed across the broad, sluggish4, reed-girt stream—men, horses, and baggage in the flat ferry barges5—and so journeyed on through the fresh morning air past Exbury to Lepe. Topping the heathy down, they came of a sudden full in sight of the old sea-port—a cluster of houses, a trail of blue smoke, and a bristle6 of masts. To right and left the long blue curve of the Solent lapped in a fringe of foam7 upon the yellow beach. Some way out from the town a line of pessoners, creyers, and other small craft were rolling lazily on the gentle swell8. Further out still lay a great merchant-ship, high ended, deep waisted, painted of a canary yellow, and towering above the fishing-boats like a swan among ducklings.
“By St. Paul!” said the knight9, “our good merchant of Southampton hath not played us false, for methinks I can see our ship down yonder. He said that she would be of great size and of a yellow shade.”
“By my hilt, yes!” muttered Aylward; “she is yellow as a kite's claw, and would carry as many men as there are pips in a pomegranate.”
“It is as well,” remarked Terlake; “for methinks, my fair lord, that we are not the only ones who are waiting a passage to Gascony. Mine eye catches at times a flash and sparkle among yonder houses which assuredly never came from shipman's jacket or the gaberdine of a burgher.”
“I can also see it,” said Alleyne, shading his eyes with his hand. “And I can see men-at-arms in yonder boats which ply10 betwixt the vessel11 and the shore. But methinks that we are very welcome here, for already they come forth to meet us.”
A tumultuous crowd of fishermen, citizens, and women had indeed swarmed12 out from the northern gate, and approached them up the side of the moor13, waving their hands and dancing with joy, as though a great fear had been rolled back from their minds. At their head rode a very large and solemn man with a long chin and a drooping14 lip. He wore a fur tippet round his neck and a heavy gold chain over it, with a medallion which dangled15 in front of him.
“Welcome, most puissant16 and noble lord,” he cried, doffing17 his bonnet18 to Black Simon. “I have heard of your lordship's valiant19 deeds, and in sooth they might be expected from your lordship's face and bearing. Is there any small matter in which I may oblige you?”
“Since you ask me,” said the man-at-arms, “I would take it kindly20 if you could spare a link or two of the chain which hangs round your neck.”
“What, the corporation chain!” cried the other in horror. “The ancient chain of the township of Lepe! This is but a sorry jest, Sir Nigel.”
“What the plague did you ask me for then?” said Simon. “But if it is Sir Nigel Loring with whom you would speak, that is he upon the black horse.”
The Mayor of Lepe gazed with amazement21 on the mild face and slender frame of the famous warrior22.
“Your pardon, my gracious lord,” he cried. “You see in me the mayor and chief magistrate23 of the ancient and powerful town of Lepe. I bid you very heartily24 welcome, and the more so as you are come at a moment when we are sore put to it for means of defence.”
“Ha!” cried Sir Nigel, pricking25 up his ears.
“Yes, my lord, for the town being very ancient and the walls as old as the town, it follows that they are very ancient too. But there is a certain villainous and bloodthirsty Norman pirate hight Tete-noire, who, with a Genoan called Tito Caracci, commonly known as Spade-beard, hath been a mighty26 scourge27 upon these coasts. Indeed, my lord, they are very cruel and black-hearted men, graceless and ruthless, and if they should come to the ancient and powerful town of Lepe then—”
“Then good-bye to the ancient and powerful town of Lepe,” quoth Ford28, whose lightness of tongue could at times rise above his awe29 of Sir Nigel.
The knight, however, was too much intent upon the matter in hand to give heed30 to the flippancy31 of his squire. “Have you then cause,” he asked, “to think that these men are about to venture an attempt upon you?”
“They have come in two great galleys33,” answered the mayor, “with two bank of oars34 on either side, and great store of engines of war and of men-at-arms. At Weymouth and at Portland they have murdered and ravished. Yesterday morning they were at Cowes, and we saw the smoke from the burning crofts. To-day they lie at their ease near Freshwater, and we fear much lest they come upon us and do us a mischief35.”
“We cannot tarry,” said Sir Nigel, riding towards the town, with the mayor upon his left side; “the Prince awaits us at Bordeaux, and we may not be behind the general muster36. Yet I will promise you that on our way we shall find time to pass Freshwater and to prevail upon these rovers to leave you in peace.”
“We are much beholden to you!” cried the mayor “But I cannot see, my lord, how, without a war-ship, you may venture against these men. With your archers37, however, you might well hold the town and do them great scath if they attempt to land.”
“There is a very proper cog out yonder,” said Sir Nigel, “it would be a very strange thing if any ship were not a war-ship when it had such men as these upon her decks. Certes, we shall do as I say, and that no later than this very day.”
“My lord,” said a rough-haired, dark-faced man, who walked by the knight's other stirrup, with his head sloped to catch all that he was saying. “By your leave, I have no doubt that you are skilled in land fighting and the marshalling of lances, but, by my soul! you will find it another thing upon the sea. I am the master-shipman of this yellow cog, and my name is Goodwin Hawtayne. I have sailed since I was as high as this staff, and I have fought against these Normans and against the Genoese, as well as the Scotch39, the Bretons, the Spanish, and the Moors40. I tell you, sir, that my ship is over light and over frail41 for such work, and it will but end in our having our throats cut, or being sold as slaves to the Barbary heathen.”
“I also have experienced one or two gentle and honorable ventures upon the sea,” quoth Sir Nigel, “and I am right blithe42 to have so fair a task before us. I think, good master-shipman, that you and I may win great honor in this matter, and I can see very readily that you are a brave and stout44 man.”
“I like it not,” said the other sturdily. “In God's name, I like it not. And yet Goodwin Hawtayne is not the man to stand back when his fellows are for pressing forward. By my soul! be it sink or swim, I shall turn her beak45 into Freshwater Bay, and if good Master Witherton, of Southampton, like not my handling of his ship then he may find another master-shipman.”
They were close by the old north gate of the little town, and Alleyne, half turning in his saddle, looked back at the motley crowd who followed. The bowmen and men-at-arms had broken their ranks and were intermingled with the fishermen and citizens, whose laughing faces and hearty46 gestures bespoke47 the weight of care from which this welcome arrival had relieved them. Here and there among the moving throng49 of dark jerkins and of white surcoats were scattered50 dashes of scarlet51 and blue, the whimples or shawls of the women. Aylward, with a fishing lass on either arm, was vowing52 constancy alternately to her on the right and her on the left, while big John towered in the rear with a little chubby53 maiden54 enthroned upon his great shoulder, her soft white arm curled round his shining headpiece. So the throng moved on, until at the very gate it was brought to a stand by a wondrously55 fat man, who came darting57 forth from the town with rage in every feature of his rubicund58 face.
“How now, Sir Mayor?” he roared, in a voice like a bull. “How now, Sir Mayor? How of the clams59 and the scallops?”
“By Our Lady! my sweet Sir Oliver,” cried the mayor. “I have had so much to think of, with these wicked villains61 so close upon us, that it had quite gone out of my head.”
“Words, words!” shouted the other furiously. “Am I to be put off with words? I say to you again, how of the clams and scallops?”
“My fair sir, you flatter me,” cried the mayor. “I am a peaceful trader, and I am not wont62 to be so shouted at upon so small a matter.”
“Small!” shrieked63 the other. “Small! Clams and scallops! Ask me to your table to partake of the dainty of the town, and when I come a barren welcome and a bare board! Where is my spear-bearer?”
“Nay, Sir Oliver, Sir Oliver!” cried Sir Nigel, laughing.
“Let your anger be appeased64, since instead of this dish you come upon an old friend and comrade.”
“By St. Martin of Tours!” shouted the fat knight, his wrath65 all changed in an instant to joy, “if it is not my dear little game rooster of the Garonne. Ah, my sweet coz, I am right glad to see you. What days we have seen together!”
“Aye, by my faith,” cried Sir Nigel, with sparkling eyes, “we have seen some valiant men, and we have shown our pennons in some noble skirmishes. By St. Paul! we have had great joys in France.”
“And sorrows also,” quoth the other. “I have some sad memories of the land. Can you recall that which befell us at Libourne?”
“Nay, I cannot call to mind that we ever so much as drew sword at the place.”
“Man, man,” cried Sir Oliver, “your mind still runs on nought66 but blades and bassinets. Hast no space in thy frame for the softer joys. Ah, even now I can scarce speak of it unmoved. So noble a pie, such tender pigeons, and sugar in the gravy67 instead of salt! You were by my side that day, as were Sir Claude Latour and the Lord of Pommers.”
“I remember it,” said Sir Nigel, laughing, “and how you harried68 the cook down the street, and spoke48 of setting fire to the inn. By St. Paul! most worthy69 mayor, my old friend is a perilous70 man, and I rede you that you compose your difference with him on such terms as you may.”
“The clams and scallops shall be ready within the hour,” the mayor answered. “I had asked Sir Oliver Buttesthorn to do my humble71 board the honor to partake at it of the dainty upon which we take some little pride, but in sooth this alarm of pirates hath cast such a shadow on my wits that I am like one distrait72. But I trust, Sir Nigel, that you will also partake of none-meat with me?”
“I have overmuch to do,” Sir Nigel answered, “for we must be aboard, horse and man, as early as we may. How many do you muster, Sir Oliver?”
“Three and forty. The forty are drunk, and the three are but indifferent sober. I have them all safe upon the ship.”
“They had best find their wits again, for I shall have work for every man of them ere the sun set. It is my intention, if it seems good to you, to try a venture against these Norman and Genoese rovers.”
“They carry caviare and certain very noble spices from the Levant aboard of ships from Genoa,” quoth Sir Oliver. “We may come to great profit through the business. I pray you, master-shipman, that when you go on board you pour a helmetful of sea-water over any of my rogues73 whom you may see there.”
Leaving the lusty knight and the Mayor of Lepe, Sir Nigel led the Company straight down to the water's edge, where long lines of flat lighters75 swiftly bore them to their vessel. Horse after horse was slung76 by main force up from the barges, and after kicking and plunging77 in empty air was dropped into the deep waist of the yellow cog, where rows of stalls stood ready for their safe keeping. Englishmen in those days were skilled and prompt in such matters, for it was so not long before that Edward had embarked78 as many as fifty thousand men in the port of Orwell, with their horses and their baggage, all in the space of four-and-twenty hours. So urgent was Sir Nigel on the shore, and so prompt was Goodwin Hawtayne on the cog, that Sir Oliver Buttesthorn had scarce swallowed his last scallop ere the peal79 of the trumpet80 and clang of nakir announced that all was ready and the anchor drawn81. In the last boat which left the shore the two commanders sat together in the sheets, a strange contrast to one another, while under the feet of the rowers was a litter of huge stones which Sir Nigel had ordered to be carried to the cog. These once aboard, the ship set her broad mainsail, purple in color, and with a golden St. Christopher bearing Christ upon his shoulder in the centre of it. The breeze blew, the sail bellied82, over heeled the portly vessel, and away she plunged83 through the smooth blue rollers, amid the clang of the minstrels on her poop and the shouting of the black crowd who fringed the yellow beach. To the left lay the green Island of Wight, with its long, low, curving hills peeping over each other's shoulders to the sky-line; to the right the wooded Hampshire coast as far as eye could reach; above a steel-blue heaven, with a wintry sun shimmering85 down upon them, and enough of frost to set the breath a-smoking.
“By St. Paul!” said Sir Nigel gayly, as he stood upon the poop and looked on either side of him, “it is a land which is very well worth fighting for, and it were pity to go to France for what may be had at home. Did you not spy a crooked86 man upon the beach?”
“Nay, I spied nothing,” grumbled87 Sir Oliver, “for I was hurried down with a clam60 stuck in my gizzard and an untasted goblet88 of Cyprus on the board behind me.”
“I saw him, my fair lord,” said Terlake, “an old man with one shoulder higher than the other.”
“'Tis a sign of good fortune,” quoth Sir Nigel. “Our path was also crossed by a woman and by a priest, so all should be well with us. What say you, Edricson?”
“I cannot tell, my fair lord. The Romans of old were a very wise people, yet, certes, they placed their faith in such matters. So, too, did the Greeks, and divers90 other ancient peoples who were famed for their learning. Yet of the moderns there are many who scoff91 at all omens92.”
“There can be no manner of doubt about it,” said Sir Oliver Buttesthorn. “I can well remember that in Navarre one day it thundered on the left out of a cloudless sky. We knew that ill would come of it, nor had we long to wait. Only thirteen days after, a haunch of prime venison was carried from my very tent door by the wolves, and on the same day two flasks93 of old vernage turned sour and muddy.”
“You may bring my harness from below,” said Sir Nigel to his squires94, “and also, I pray you, bring up Sir Oliver's and we shall don it here. Ye may then see to your own gear; for this day you will, I hope, make a very honorable entrance into the field of chivalry95, and prove yourselves to be very worthy and valiant squires. And now, Sir Oliver, as to our dispositions96: would it please you that I should order them or will you?”
“You, my cockerel, you. By Our Lady! I am no chicken, but I cannot claim to know as much of war as the squire of Sir Walter Manny. Settle the matter to your own liking97.”
“You shall fly your pennon upon the fore43 part, then, and I upon the poop. For foreguard I shall give you your own forty men, with two-score archers. Two-score men, with my own men-at-arms and squires, will serve as a poop-guard. Ten archers, with thirty shipmen, under the master, may hold the waist while ten lie aloft with stones and arbalests. How like you that?”
“Good, by my faith, good! But here comes my harness, and I must to work, for I cannot slip into it as I was wont when first I set my face to the wars.”
Meanwhile there had been bustle98 and preparation in all parts of the great vessel. The archers stood in groups about the decks, new-stringing their bows, and testing that they were firm at the nocks. Among them moved Aylward and other of the older soldiers, with a few whispered words of precept99 here and of warning there.
“Stand to it, my hearts of gold,” said the old bowman as he passed from knot to knot. “By my hilt! we are in luck this journey. Bear in mind the old saying of the Company.”
“What is that, Aylward?” cried several, leaning on their bows and laughing at him.
“'Tis the master-bowyer's rede: 'Every bow well bent100. Every shaft101 well sent. Every stave well nocked. Every string well locked.' There, with that jingle102 in his head, a bracer on his left hand, a shooting glove on his right, and a farthing's-worth of wax in his girdle, what more doth a bowman need?”
“It would not be amiss,” said Hordle John, “if under his girdle he had four farthings'-worth of wine.”
“Work first, wine afterwards, mon camarade. But it is time that we took our order, for methinks that between the Needle rocks and the Alum cliffs yonder I can catch a glimpse of the topmasts of the galleys. Hewett, Cook, Johnson, Cunningham, your men are of the poop-guard. Thornbury, Walters, Hackett, Baddlesmere, you are with Sir Oliver on the forecastle. Simon, you bide103 with your lord's banner; but ten men must go forward.”
Quietly and promptly104 the men took their places, lying flat upon their faces on the deck, for such was Sir Nigel's order. Near the prow105 was planted Sir Oliver's spear, with his arms—a boar's head gules upon a field of gold. Close by the stern stood Black Simon with the pennon of the house of Loring. In the waist gathered the Southampton mariners106, hairy and burly men, with their jerkins thrown off, their waists braced107 tight, swords, mallets, and pole-axes in their hands. Their leader, Goodwin Hawtayne, stood upon the poop and talked with Sir Nigel, casting his eye up sometimes at the swelling108 sail, and then glancing back at the two seamen109 who held the tiller.
“Pass the word,” said Sir Nigel, “that no man shall stand to arms or draw his bow-string until my trumpeter shall sound. It would be well that we should seem to be a merchant-ship from Southampton and appear to flee from them.”
“We shall see them anon,” said the master-shipman. “Ha, said I not so? There they lie, the water-snakes, in Freshwater Bay; and mark the reek89 of smoke from yonder point, where they have been at their devil's work. See how their shallops pull from the land! They have seen us and called their men aboard. Now they draw upon the anchor. See them like ants upon the forecastle! They stoop and heave like handy ship men. But, my fair lord, these are no niefs. I doubt but we have taken in hand more than we can do. Each of these ships is a galeasse, and of the largest and swiftest make.”
“I would I had your eyes,” said Sir Nigel, blinking at the pirate galleys. “They seem very gallant110 ships, and I trust that we shall have much pleasance from our meeting with them. It would be well to pass the word that we should neither give nor take quarter this day. Have you perchance a priest or friar aboard this ship, Master Hawtayne?”
“No, my fair lord.”
“Well, well, it is no great matter for my Company, for they were all houseled and shriven ere we left Twynham Castle; and Father Christopher of the Priory gave me his word that they were as fit to march to heaven as to Gascony. But my mind misdoubts me as to these Winchester men who have come with Sir Oliver, for they appear to be a very ungodly crew. Pass the word that the men kneel, and that the under-officers repeat to them the pater, the ave, and the credo.”
With a clank of arms, the rough archers and seamen took to their knees, with bent heads and crossed hands, listening to the hoarse111 mutter from the file-leaders. It was strange to mark the hush112; so that the lapping of the water, the straining of the sail, and the creaking of the timbers grew louder of a sudden upon the ear. Many of the bowmen had drawn amulets113 and relics114 from their bosoms115, while he who possessed116 some more than usually sanctified treasure passed it down the line of his comrades, that all might kiss and reap the virtue117.
The yellow cog had now shot out from the narrow waters of the Solent, and was plunging and rolling on the long heave of the open channel. The wind blew freshly from the east, with a very keen edge to it; and the great sail bellied roundly out, laying the vessel over until the water hissed118 beneath her lee bulwarks119. Broad and ungainly, she floundered from wave to wave, dipping her round bows deeply into the blue rollers, and sending the white flakes120 of foam in a spatter over her decks. On her larboard quarter lay the two dark galleys, which had already hoisted121 sail, and were shooting out from Freshwater Bay in swift pursuit, their double line of oars giving them a vantage which could not fail to bring them up with any vessel which trusted to sails alone. High and bluff122 the English cog; long, black and swift the pirate galleys, like two fierce lean wolves which have seen a lordly and unsuspecting stag walk past their forest lair123.
“Shall we turn, my fair lord, or shall we carry on?” asked the master-shipman, looking behind him with anxious eyes.
“Nay, we must carry on and play the part of the helpless merchant.”
“But your pennons? They will see that we have two knights124 with us.”
“Yet it would not be to a knight's honor or good name to lower his pennon. Let them be, and they will think that we are a wine-ship for Gascony, or that we bear the wool-bales of some mercer of the Staple125. Ma foi, but they are very swift! They swoop126 upon us like two goshawks on a heron. Is there not some symbol or device upon their sails?”
“That on the right,” said Edricson, “appears to have the head of an Ethiop upon it.”
“'Tis the badge of Tete-noire, the Norman,” cried a seaman-mariner. “I have seen it before, when he harried us at Winchelsea. He is a wondrous56 large and strong man, with no ruth for man, woman, or beast. They say that he hath the strength of six; and, certes, he hath the crimes of six upon his soul. See, now, to the poor souls who swing at either end of his yard-arm!”
At each end of the yard there did indeed hang the dark figure of a man, jolting127 and lurching with hideous128 jerkings of its limbs at every plunge84 and swoop of the galley32.
“By St. Paul!” said Sir Nigel, “and by the help of St. George and Our Lady, it will be a very strange thing if our black-headed friend does not himself swing thence ere he be many hours older. But what is that upon the other galley?”
“It is the red cross of Genoa. This Spade-beard is a very noted129 captain, and it is his boast that there are no seamen and no archers in the world who can compare with those who serve the Doge Boccanegra.”
“That we shall prove,” said Goodwin Hawtayne; “but it would be well, ere they close with us, to raise up the mantlets and pavises as a screen against their bolts.” He shouted a hoarse order, and his seamen worked swiftly and silently, heightening the bulwarks and strengthening them. The three ship's anchors were at Sir Nigel's command carried into the waist, and tied to the mast, with twenty feet of cable between, each under the care of four seamen. Eight others were stationed with leather water-bags to quench130 any fire-arrows which might come aboard, while others were sent up the mast, to lie along the yard and drop stones or shoot arrows as the occasion served.
“Let them be supplied with all that is heavy and weighty in the ship,” said Sir Nigel.
“Then we must send them up Sir Oliver Buttesthorn,” quoth Ford.
The knight looked at him with a face which struck the smile from his lips. “No squire of mine,” he said, “shall ever make jest of a belted knight. And yet,” he added, his eyes softening131, “I know that it is but a boy's mirth, with no sting in it. Yet I should ill do my part towards your father if I did not teach you to curb132 your tongue-play.”
“They will lay us aboard on either quarter, my lord,” cried the master. “See how they stretch out from each other! The Norman hath a mangonel or a trabuch upon the forecastle. See, they bend to the levers! They are about to loose it.”
“Aylward,” cried the knight, “pick your three trustiest archers, and see if you cannot do something to hinder their aim. Methinks they are within long arrow flight.”
“Seventeen score paces,” said the archer38, running his eye backwards133 and forwards. “By my ten finger-bones! it would be a strange thing if we could not notch134 a mark at that distance. Here, Watkin of Sowley, Arnold, Long Williams, let us show the rogues that they have English bowmen to deal with.”
The three archers named stood at the further end of the poop, balancing themselves with feet widely spread and bows drawn, until the heads of the cloth-yard arrows were level with the centre of the stave. “You are the surer, Watkin,” said Aylward, standing135 by them with shaft upon string. “Do you take the rogue74 with the red coif. You two bring down the man with the head-piece, and I will hold myself ready if you miss. Ma foi! they are about to loose her. Shoot, mes garcons, or you will be too late.”
The throng of pirates had cleared away from the great wooden catapult, leaving two of their number to discharge it. One in a scarlet cap bent over it, steadying the jagged rock which was balanced on the spoon-shaped end of the long wooden lever. The other held the loop of the rope which would release the catch and send the unwieldy missile hurtling through the air. So for an instant they stood, showing hard and clear against the white sail behind them. The next, redcap had fallen across the stone with an arrow between his ribs136; and the other, struck in the leg and in the throat, was writhing137 and spluttering upon the ground. As he toppled backwards he had loosed the spring, and the huge beam of wood, swinging round with tremendous force, cast the corpse138 of his comrade so close to the English ship that its mangled139 and distorted limbs grazed their very stern. As to the stone, it glanced off obliquely140 and fell midway between the vessels141. A roar of cheering and of laughter broke from the rough archers and seamen at the sight, answered by a yell of rage from their pursuers.
“Lie low, mes enfants,” cried Aylward, motioning with his left hand. “They will learn wisdom. They are bringing forward shield and mantlet. We shall have some pebbles142 about our ears ere long.”
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