Que chascun soyt rectifiant
La voye de Sauveur; non suis,
Et accomplir je ne le puis.”
THE SIXTH NOVEL.—ANNE OF BOHEMIA HAS ONE SOLE FRIEND, AND BY HIM PLAYS THE FRIEND’S PART; AND IN DOING SO ACHIEVES THEIR COMMON ANGUISH1, AS WELL AS THE CONFUSION OF STATECRAFT AND THE POULTICING OF A GREAT DISEASE.
The Story of the Satraps
In the year of grace 1381 (Nicolas begins) was Dame2 Anne magnificently fetched from remote Bohemia, and at Westminster married to Sire Richard, the second monarch3 of that name to reign4 in England. This king, I must tell you, had succeeded while he was yet an infant, to the throne of his grandfather, the third King Edward, about whom I have told you in the story preceding this.
Queen Anne had presently noted6 a certain priest who went forbiddingly about her court, where he was accorded a provisional courtesy, and who went also into many hovels, where pitiable wrecks7 of humankind received his alms and ministrations.
Queen Anne made inquiries8. This young cleric was amanuensis to the Duke of Gloucester, she learned, and was notoriously a by-blow of the Duke’s brother, dead Lionel of Clarence. She sent for this Edward Maudelain. When he came her first perception was, “How wonderful is his likeness9 to the King!” while the thought’s commentary ran, unacknowledged, “Yes, as an eagle resembles a falcon10!” For here, to the observant eye, was a more zealous11 person, already passion-wasted, and a far more dictatorial13 and stiff-necked person than the lazy and amiable14 King; also, this Maudelain’s face and nose were somewhat too long and high: the priest was, in a word, the less comely15 of the pair by a very little, and to an immeasurable extent the more kinglike.
“You are my cousin now, messire,” the Queen told him, and innocently offered to his lips her own.
He never moved; but their glances crossed, and for that instant she saw the face of a man who has just stepped into a quicksand. She grew red, without knowing why. Then he spoke16, composedly, of trivial matters.
Thus began the Queen’s acquaintance with Edward Maudelain. She was by this time the loneliest woman in the island. Her husband granted her a bright and fresh perfection of form and color, but desiderated any appetizing tang, and lamented17, in his phrase, a certain kinship to the impeccable loveliness of some female saint in a jaunty18 tapestry19; bright as ice in sunshine, just so her beauty chilled you, he complained: moreover, this daughter of the Caesars had been fetched into England, chiefly, to breed him children, and this she had never done. Undoubtedly20 he had made a bad bargain,—he was too easy-going, people presumed upon it. His barons21 snatched their cue and esteemed23 Dame Anne to be negligible; whereas the clergy24, finding that she obstinately26 read the Scriptures27 in the vulgar tongue, under the irrelevant28 plea of not comprehending Latin, began to denounce her from their pulpits as a heretic and as the evil woman prophesied29 by Ezekiel.
It was the nature of this desolate30 child to crave31 affection, as a necessary, and pitifully she tried to purchase it through almsgiving. In the attempt she could have found no coadjutor more ready than Edward Maudelain. Giving was with these two a sort of obsession32, though always he gave in a half scorn of his fellow creatures which was not more than half concealed33. This bastard34 was charitable and pious35 because he knew his soul, conceived in double sin, to be doubly evil, and therefore doubly in need of redemption through good works.
Now in and about the Queen’s lonely rooms the woman and the priest met daily to discuss now this or that point of theology, or now (to cite a single instance) Gammer Tudway’s obstinate25 sciatica. Considerate persons found something of the pathetic in their preoccupation by these matters while, so clamantly, the dissension between the young King and his uncles gathered to a head. The King’s uncles meant to continue governing England, with the King as their ward5, as long as they could; he meant to relieve himself of this guardianship36, and them of their heads, as soon as he was able. War seemed inevitable37, the air was thick with portents38; and was this, then, an appropriate time, the judicious39 demanded of high Heaven, for the Queen of imperilled England to concern herself about a peasant’s toothache?
Long afterward40 was Edward Maudelain to remember this quiet and amiable period of his life, and to wonder over the man that he had been through this queer while. Embittered41 and suspicious she had found him, noted for the carping tongue he lacked both power and inclination42 to bridle43; and she had, against his nature, made Maudelain see that every person is at bottom lovable, and that human vices44 are but the stains of a traveller midway in a dusty journey; and had incited45 the priest no longer to do good for his soul’s health, but simply for his fellow’s benefit.
In place of that monstrous46 passion which had at first view of her possessed47 the priest, now, like a sheltered taper48, glowed an adoration50 which made him yearn51, in defiance52 of common-sense, to suffer somehow for this beautiful and gracious comrade; though very often pity for her loneliness and knowledge that she dared trust no one save him would throttle53 Maudelain like two assassins, and would move the hot-blooded young man to a rapture54 of self-contempt and exultation55.
Now Maudelain made excellent songs, it was a matter of common report. Yet but once in their close friendship did the Queen command him to make a song for her. This had been at Dover, about vespers, in the starved and tiny garden overlooking the English Channel, upon which her apartments faced; and the priest had fingered his lute56 for an appreciable57 while before he sang, more harshly than was his custom.
Sang Maudelain:
“Ave Maria! now cry we so
That see night wake and daylight go.
“Mother and Maid, in nothing incomplete,
This night that gathers is more light and fleet
Agentes semper uno animo.
“Ever we touch the prize we dare not take!
Yet ever to a dreamed-of goal we make—
Est tui coeli in palatio!
And to how small sure knowledge are we heir
That blindly tread, with twilight everywhere!
Volo in toto; sed non valeo!
Nor lightly tread together steadfastly63,
Et parvum carmen unum facio:
“Mater, ora filium,
Ut post hoc exilium
Nobis donet gaudium
Beatorum omnium!”
Dame Anne had risen. She said nothing. She stayed in this posture64 for a lengthy65 while, one hand yet clasping each breast. Then she laughed, and began to speak of Long Simon’s recent fever. Was there no method of establishing him in another cottage? No, the priest said, the peasants, like the cattle, were always deeded with the land, and Simon could not lawfully66 be taken away from his owner.
One day, about the hour of prime, in that season of the year when fields smell of young grass, the Duke of Gloucester sent for Edward Maudelain. The court was then at Windsor. The priest came quickly to his patron. He found the Duke in company with the King’s other uncle Edmund of York and bland67 Harry68 of Derby, who was John of Gaunt’s oldest son, and in consequence the King’s cousin. Each was a proud and handsome man: Derby alone (who was afterward King of England) had inherited the squint69 that distinguished70 this family. To-day Gloucester was gnawing71 at his finger nails, big York seemed half-asleep, and the Earl of Derby appeared patiently to await something as yet ineffably72 remote.
“Sit down!” snarled73 Gloucester. His lean and evil countenance74 was that of a tired devil. The priest obeyed, wondering that so high an honor should be accorded him in the view of three great noblemen. Then Gloucester said, in his sharp way: “Edward, you know, as England knows, the King’s intention toward us three and our adherents75. It has come to our demolishment or his. I confess a preference in the matter. I have consulted with the Pope concerning the advisability of taking the crown into my own hands. Edmund here does not want it, and my brother John is already achieving one in Spain. Eh, in imagination I was already King of England, and I had dreamed—Well! to-day the prosaic76 courier arrived. Urban—the Neapolitan swine!—dares give me no assistance. It is decreed I shall never reign in these islands. And I had dreamed—Meanwhile, de Vere and de la Pole are at the King day and night, urging revolt. As matters go, within a week or two, the three heads before you will be embellishing77 Temple Bar. You, of course, they will only hang.”
“We must avoid England, then, my noble patron,” the priest considered.
Angrily the Duke struck a clenched78 fist upon the table. “By the Cross! we remain in England, you and I and all of us. Others avoid. The Pope and the Emperor will have none of me. They plead for the Black Prince’s heir, for the legitimate79 heir. Dompnedex! they shall have him!”
“Besides, the King intends to take from me my fief at Sudbury,” said the Duke of York, “in order to give it to de Vere. That is both absurd and monstrous and abominable82.”
Openly Gloucester sneered83. “Listen!” he rapped out toward Maudelain; “when they were drawing up the Great Peace at Brétigny, it happened, as is notorious, that the Black Prince, my brother, wooed in this town the Demoiselle Alixe Riczi, whom in the outcome he abducted84. It is not so generally known, however, that, finding this sister of the Vicomte de Montbrison a girl of obdurate85 virtue86, my brother had prefaced the action by marriage.”
“And what have I to do with all this?” said Edward Maudelain.
Gloucester retorted: “More than you think. For this Alixe was conveyed to Chertsey, here in England, where at the year’s end she died in childbirth. A little before this time had Sir Thomas Holland seen his last day,—the husband of that Joane of Kent whom throughout life my brother loved most marvellously. The disposition87 of the late Queen-Mother is tolerably well known. I make no comment save that to her moulding my brother was as so much wax. In fine, the two lovers were presently married, and their son reigns88 to-day in England. The abandoned son of Alixe Riczi was reared by the Cistercians at Chertsey, where some years ago I found you.”
He spoke with a stifled89 voice, wrenching90 forth91 each sentence; and now with a stiff forefinger92 flipped93 a paper across the table. “In extremis my brother did more than confess. He signed,—your Majesty,” said Gloucester. The Duke on a sudden flung out his hands, like a wizard whose necromancy94 fails, and the palms were bloodied95 where his nails had cut the flesh.
“Moreover, my daughter was born at Sudbury,” said the Duke of York.
And of Maudelain’s face I cannot tell you. He made pretence96 to read the paper carefully, but his eyes roved, and he knew that he stood among wolves. The room was oddly shaped, with eight equal sides: the ceiling was of a light and brilliant blue, powdered with many golden stars, and the walls were hung with smart tapestries97 which commemorated98 the exploits of Theseus. “Then I am King,” this Maudelain said aloud, “of France and England, and Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine! I perceive that Heaven loves a jest.” He wheeled upon Gloucester and spoke with singular irrelevance99, “And what is to be done with the present Queen?”
“It would be advisable, your Grace,” observed the Earl of Derby, suavely102, and breaking his silence for the first time, “that you yourself should wed49 Dame Anne, once the Apostolic See has granted the necessary dispensation. Treading too close upon the fighting requisite103 to bring about the dethronement and death of our nominal104 lord the so-called King, a war with Bohemia, which would be only too apt to follow this noble lady’s assassination105, would be highly inconvenient106, and, lacking that, we would have to pay back her dowry.”
Then these three princes rose and knelt before the priest; they were clad in long bright garments, and they glittered with gold and many jewels. He standing107 among them shuddered108 in his sombre robe. “Hail, King of England!” cried these three.
“Hail, ye that are my kinsmen109!” he answered; “hail, ye that spring of an accursed race, as I! And woe110 to England for that hour wherein Manuel of Poictesme held traffic with the Sorceress of Provence, and the devil’s son begot111 an heir for England! Of ice and of lust112 and of hell-fire are all we sprung; old records attest113 it; and fickle114 and cold and ravenous115 and without shame are all our race until the end. Of your brother’s dishonor ye make merchandise to-day, and to-day fratricide whispers me, and leers, and, Heaven help me! I attend. O God of Gods! wilt116 Thou dare bid a man live stainless117, having aforetime filled his veins118 with such a venom119? Then haro, will I cry from Thy deepest hell.... Oh, now let the adulterous Redeemer of Poictesme rejoice in his tall fires, to note that his descendants know of what wood to make a crutch120! You are very wise, my kinsmen. Take your measures, messieurs who are my kinsmen! Though were I of any other race, with what expedition would I now kill you, I that recognize within me the strength to do it! Then would I slay121 you! without any animosity, would I slay you then, just as I would kill as many splendid snakes!”
He went away, laughing horribly. Gloucester drummed upon the table, his brows contracted. But the lean Duke said nothing; big York seemed to drowse; and Henry of Derby smiled as he sounded a gong for that scribe who would draw up the necessary letters. The Earl’s time was not yet come, but it was nearing.
In the antechamber the priest encountered two men-at-arms dragging a dead body from the castle. The Duke of Kent, Maudelain was informed, had taken a fancy to a peasant girl, and in remonstrance122 her misguided father had actually tugged123 at his Grace’s sleeve.
Maudelain went into the park of Windsor, where he walked for a long while alone. It was a fine day in the middle spring; and now he seemed to understand for the first time how fair was his England. For all England was his fief, held in vassalage124 to God and to no man alive, his heart now sang; allwhither his empire spread, opulent in grain and metal and every revenue of the earth, and in stalwart men (his chattels), and in strong orderly cities, where the windows would be adorned125 with scarlet126 hangings, and women (with golden hair and red lax lips) would presently admire as King Edward rode slowly by at the head of a resplendent retinue127. And always the King would bow, graciously and without haste, to his shouting people.... He laughed to find himself already at rehearsal128 of the gesture.
It was strange, though, that in this glorious fief of his so many persons should, as yet, live day by day as cattle live, suspicious of all other moving things (with reason), and roused from their incurious and filthy130 apathy131 only when some glittering baron22, like a resistless eagle, swept uncomfortably near as he passed on some by-errand of the more bright and windy upper-world. East and north they had gone yearly, for so many centuries, these dumb peasants, to fight out their master’s uncomprehended quarrel, and to manure132 with their carcasses the soil of France and of Scotland. Give these serfs a king, now, who (being absolute), might dare to deal in perfect equity133 with rich and poor, who with his advent134 would bring Peace into England as his bride, as Trygaeus did very anciently in Athens—“And then,” the priest paraphrased135, “may England recover all the blessings136 she has lost, and everywhere the glitter of active steel will cease.” For everywhere men would crack a rustic137 jest or two, unhurriedly. Virid fields would heave brownly under their ploughs; they would find that with practice it was almost as easy to chuckle138 as it was to cringe.
Meanwhile on every side the nobles tyrannized in their degree, well clothed and nourished, but at bottom equally comfortless in condition. As illuminate139 by lightning Maudelain saw the many factions140 of his barons squabbling for gross pleasures, like wolves over a corpse141, and blindly dealing142 death to one another to secure at least one more delicious gulp143 before that inevitable mangling144 by the teeth of some burlier colleague. The complete misery145 of England showed before Maudelain like a winter landscape. The thing was questionless. He must tread henceforward without fear among frenzied146 beasts, and to their ultimate welfare. On a sudden Maudelain knew himself to be invincible147 and fine, and hesitancy ebbed148.
True, Richard, poor fool, must die. Squarely the priest faced that stark149 and hideous150 circumstance; to spare Richard was beyond his power, and the boy was his brother; yes, this oncoming King Edward would be a fratricide, and after death would be irrevocably damned. To burn, and eternally to burn, and, worst of all, to know that the torment151 was eternal! ay, it would be hard; but, at the cost of Richard’s ignoble152 life and of Edward’s inconsiderable soul, to win so many men to manhood was not a bargain to be refused.
The tale tells that Maudelain went toward the little garden which adjoined Dame Anne’s apartments. He found the Queen there, alone, as nowadays she was for the most part, and he paused to wonder at her bright and singular beauty. How vaguely153 odd was this beauty, he reflected, too; how alien in its effect to that of any other woman in sturdy England, and how associable it was, somehow, with every wild and gracious denizen154 of the woods which blossomed yonder.
In this place the world was all sunlight, temperate155 but undiluted. They had met in a wide, unshaded plot of grass, too short to ripple156, which everywhere glowed steadily157, like a gem158. Right and left, birds sang as if in a contest. The sky was cloudless, a faint and radiant blue throughout, save where the sun stayed as yet in the zenith, so that the Queen’s brows cast honey-colored shadows upon either cheek. The priest was greatly troubled by the proud and heatless brilliancies, the shrill159 joys, of every object within the radius160 of his senses.
She was splendidly clothed, in a kirtle of very bright green, tinted161 like the verdancy162 of young ferns in sunlight, and wore over all a gown of white, cut open on each side as far as the hips163. This garment was embroidered164 with golden leopards165 and was trimmed with ermine. About her yellow hair was a chaplet of gold, wherein emeralds glowed. Her blue eyes were as large and shining and changeable (he thought) as two oceans in midsummer; and Maudelain stood motionless and seemed to himself but to revere166, as the Earl Ixion did, some bright unstable167 wisp of cloud, while somehow all elation168 departed from him as water does from a wetted sponge compressed. He laughed discordantly169.
“Wait—! O my only friend—!” said Maudelain. Then in a level voice he told her all, unhurriedly and without any apparent emotion.
She had breathed once, with a deep inhalation. She had screened her countenance from his gaze the while you might have counted fifty. Presently she said: “This means more war, for de Vere and Tressilian and de la Pole and Bramber and others of the barons know that the King’s fall signifies their ruin. Many thousands die to-morrow.”
He answered, “It means a war which will make me King of England, and will make you my wife.”
“In that war the nobles will ride abroad with banners and gay surcoats, and will kill and ravish in the pauses of their songs; while daily in that war the naked peasants will kill the one the other, without knowing why.”
His thought had forerun hers. “Yes, some must die, so that in the end I may be King, and the general happiness may rest at my disposal. The adventure of this world is wonderful, and it goes otherwise than under the strict tutelage of reason.”
“It would not be yours, but Gloucester’s and his barons’. Friend, they would set you on the throne to be their puppet and to move only as they pulled the strings170. Thwart171 them in their maraudings and they will fling you aside, as the barons have pulled down every king that dared oppose them. No, they desire to live pleasantly, to have fish on Fridays, and white bread and the finest wine the whole year through, and there is not enough for all, say they. Can you alone contend against them? and conquer them? for not unless you can do this may I dare bid you reign.”
The sun had grown too bright, too merciless, but as always she drew the truth from him. “I could not venture to oppose in anything the barons who supported my cause: for if I did, I would not endure a fortnight. Heaven help us, nor you nor I nor any one may transform through any personal force this bitter world, this piercing, cruel place of frost and sun. Charity and Truth are excommunicate, and a king is only an adorned and fearful person who leads wolves toward their quarry172, lest, lacking it, they turn and devour173 him. Everywhere the powerful labor174 to put one another out of worship, and each to stand the higher with the other’s corpse as his pedestal; and Lechery175 and Greed and Hatred176 sway these proud and inconsiderate fools as winds blow at will the gay leaves of autumn. We walk among shining vapors177, we aspire178 to overpass179 a mountain of unstable sparkling sand! We two alone in all the scuffling world! Oh, it is horrible, and I think that Satan plans the jest! We dream for a while of refashioning this bright desolation, and know that we alone can do it! we are as demigods, you and I, in those gallant180 dreams! and at the end we can but poultice some dirty rascal181!”
The Queen answered sadly: “Once and only once did God tread this tangible182 world, for a very little while, and, look you, to what trivial matters He devoted183 that brief space! Only to chat with fishermen, and to talk with light women, and to consort184 with rascals185, and at last to die between two cutpurses, ignominiously186! If Christ Himself achieved so little that seemed great and admirable, how should we two hope to do any more?”
He answered: “It is true. Of anise and of cumin the Master gets His tithe—” Maudelain broke off with a yapping laugh. “Puf! Heaven is wiser than we. I am King of England. It is my heritage.”
“It means war. Many will die, thousands will die, and to no betterment of affairs.”
“I am King of England. I am Heaven’s satrap here, and answerable to Heaven alone. It is my heritage.” And now his large and cruel eyes were aflame as he regarded her.
And visibly beneath their glare the woman changed. “My friend, must I not love you any longer? You would be content with happiness? Then I am jealous of that happiness! for you are the one friend that I have had, and so dear to me—Look you!” she said, with a light, wistful laugh, “there have been times when I was afraid of everything you touched, and I hated everything you looked at. I would not have you stained; I desired to pass my whole life between the four walls of some dingy187 and eternal gaol188, forever alone with you, lest you become like other men. I would in that period have been the very bread you eat, the least perfume which delights you, the clod you touch in crushing it, and I have often loathed189 some pleasure I derived190 from life because I might not transfer it to you undiminished. For I wanted somehow to make you happy to my own anguish.... It was wicked, I suppose, for the imagining of it made me happy, too.”
Now while he listened to this dear and tranquil191 speaking, Edward Maudelain’s raised hands had fallen like so much lead, and remembering his own nature, he longed for annihilation, before she had appraised192 his vileness193. He said:
“With reason Augustine crieth out against the lust of the eyes. ‘For pleasure seeketh objects beautiful, melodious194, fragrant195, savory196, and soft; but this disease those contrary as well, not for the sake of suffering annoyance197, but out of the lust of making trial of them!’ Ah! ah! too curiously198 I planned my own damnation, too presumptuously199 I had esteemed my soul a worthy200 scapegoat201, and I had gilded202 my enormity with many lies. Yet indeed, indeed, I had believed brave things, I had planned a not ignoble bargain—! Ey, say, is it not laughable, madame?—as my birth-right Heaven accords me a penny, and with that only penny I must presently be seeking to bribe203 Heaven.”
Then he said: “Yet are we indeed God’s satraps, as but now I cried in my vainglory, and we hold within our palms the destiny of many peoples. Depardieux! God is wiser than we are. Still, Satan offers no unhandsome bribes—bribes that are tangible and sure. For Satan, too, is wiser than we are.”
They stood like effigies204, lit by the broad, unsparing splendor205 of the morning, but again their kindling206 eyes had met, and again the man shuddered. “Decide! oh, decide very quickly, my only friend!” he said, “for throughout I am all filth129!”
Closer she drew to him, and laid one hand upon each shoulder. “O my only friend!” she breathed, with red lax lips which were very near to his, “through these six years I have ranked your friendship as the chief of all my honors! and I pray God with an entire heart that I may die so soon as I have done what I must do to-day!”
Now Maudelain was trying to smile, but he could not quite manage it. “God save King Richard!” said the priest. “For by the cowardice207 and greed and ignorance of little men is Salomon himself confounded, and by them is Hercules lightly unhorsed. Were I Leviathan, whose bones were long ago picked clean by pismires, I could perform nothing against the will of many human pismires. Therefore do you pronounce my doom208.”
“O King,” then said Dame Anne, “I bid you go forever from the court and live forever a landless man, friendless, and without even any name. Otherwise, you can in no way escape being made an instrument to bring about the misery and death of many thousands. This doom I dare adjudge and to pronounce, because we are royal and God’s satraps, you and I.”
Twice or thrice his dry lips moved before he spoke. He was aware of innumerable birds that carolled with a piercing and intolerable sweetness. “O Queen!” he hoarsely209 said, “O fellow satrap! Heaven has many fiefs. A fair province is wasted and accords to Heaven no revenue. So wastes beauty, and a shrewd wit, and an illimitable charity, which of their pride go in fetters210 and achieve no increase. To-day the young King junkets with his flatterers, and but rarely thinks of England. You have that beauty by which men are lightly conquered, and the mere211 sight of which may well cause a man’s voice to tremble as my voice trembles now, and through desire of which—But I tread afield! Of that beauty you have made no profit. O daughter of the Caesars, I bid you now gird either loin for an unlovely traffic. Old Legion must be fought with fire. True that the age is sick, true that we may not cure, we can but salve the hurt—” His hand had torn open his sombre gown, and the man’s bared breast shone in the sunlight, and on his breast heaved sleek212 and glittering beads213 of sweat. Twice he cried the Queen’s name. In a while he said: “I bid you weave incessantly215 such snares216 of brain and body as may lure217 King Richard to be swayed by you, until against his will you daily guide this shallow-hearted fool to some commendable218 action. I bid you live as other folk do hereabouts. Coax219! beg! cheat! wheedle220! lie!” he barked like a teased dog, “and play the prostitute for him that wears my crown, till you achieve in part the task which is denied me. This doom I dare adjudge and to pronounce, because we are royal and God’s satraps, you and I.”
She answered with a tiny, wordless sound. But presently, “I take my doom,” the Queen proudly said. “I shall be lonely now, my only friend, and yet—it does not matter,” the Queen said, with a little shiver. “No, nothing will ever greatly matter now, I think, now that I may not ever see you any more, my dearest.”
Her eyes had filled with tears; she was unhappy, and, as always, this knowledge roused in Maudelain a sort of frenzied pity and a hatred, quite illogical, of all other things existent. She was unhappy, that only he comprehended: and for her to be made unhappy was unjust.
So he stood thus for an appreciable silence, staying motionless save that behind his back his fingers were bruising221 one another. Everywhere was this or that bright color and an incessant214 melody. It was unbearable222. Then it was over; the ordered progress of all happenings was apparent, simple, and natural; and contentment came into his heart like a flight of linnets over level fields at dawn. He left her, and as he went he sang.
Sang Maudelain:
“Christ save us all, as well He can,
A solis ortus cardine!
For He is both God and man,
Qui natus est de virgine,
And we but part of His wide plan
‘Gloria Tibi, Domine!’
Enixa est puerpera;
Qui régnât super aethera,
And patiently may we then pass
That sing, and heartily sing we,
‘Gloria Tibi, Domine!’”
The Queen shivered in the glad sunlight. “I am, it must be, pitiably weak,” she said at last, “because I cannot sing as he does. And, since I am not very wise, were he to return even now—But he will not return. He will never return,” the Queen repeated, carefully. “It is strange I cannot comprehend that he will never return! Ah, Mother of God!” she cried, with a steadier voice, “grant that I may weep! nay225, of thy infinite mercy let me presently find the heart to weep!” And about the Queen of England many birds sang joyously226.
She sent for the King that evening, after supper, and they may well have talked of many matters, for he did not return to his own apartments that night. Next day the English barons held a council, and in the midst of it King Richard demanded to be told his age.
“Your Grace is in your twenty-second year,” said the uneasy Gloucester, who was now with reason troubled, since he had been vainly seeking everywhere for the evanished Maudelain.
“Then I have been under tutors and governors longer than any other ward in my dominion227. My lords, I thank you for your past services, but I need them no more.” They had no check handy, and Gloucester in particular foreread his death-warrant, but of necessity he shouted with the others, “Hail, King of England!”
That afternoon the King’s assumption of all royal responsibility was commemorated by a tournament, over which Dame Anne presided. Sixty of her ladies led as many knights228 by silver chains into the tilting-grounds at Smithfield, and it was remarked that the Queen appeared unusually mirthful. The King was in high good humor, a pattern of conjugal229 devotion; and the royal pair retired230 at dusk to the Bishop231 of London’s palace at Saint Paul’s, where was held a merry banquet, with dancing both before and after supper.
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