Grave, thoughtful, and reserved among his mates,
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Old play.
The Sub-Prior, at the Borderer’s request, had not failed to return to the tower, into which he was followed by Christie of the Clinthill, who, shutting the door of the apartment, drew near, and began his discourse1 with great confidence and familiarity.
“My master,” he said, “sends me with his commendations to you, Sir Sub-Prior, above all the community of Saint Mary’s, and more specially2 than even to the Abbot himself; for though he be termed my lord, and so forth3, all the world knows that you are the tongue of the trump4.”
“If you have aught to say to me concerning the community,” said the Sub-Prior, “it were well you proceeded in it without farther delay. Time presses, and the fate of young Glendinnning dwells on my mind.”
“I will be caution for him, body for body,” said Christie. “I do protest to you, as sure as I am a living man, so surely is he one.”
“Should I not tell his unhappy mother the joyful5 tidings?” said Father Eustace — “and yet better wait till they return from searching the grave. Well, Sir Jackman, your message to me from your master?”
“My lord and master,” said Christie, “hath good reason to believe that, from the information of certain back friends, whom he will reward at more leisure, your reverend community hath been led to deem him ill attached to Holy Church, allied6 with heretics and those who favour heresy7, and a hungerer after the spoils of your Abbey.”
“Be brief, good henchman,” said the Sub-Prior, “for the devil is ever most to be feared when he preacheth.”
“Briefly, then — my master desires your friendship; and to excuse himself from the maligner’s calumnies8, he sends to your Abbot that Henry Warden9, whose sermons have turned the world upside down, to be dealt with as Holy Church directs, and as the Abbot’s pleasure may determine.”
The Sub-Prior’s eyes sparkled at the intelligence; for it had been accounted a matter of great importance that this man should be arrested, possessed10, as he was known to be, of so much zeal11 and popularity, that scarcely the preaching of Knox himself had been more awakening12 to the people, and more formidable to the Church of Rome.
In fact, that ancient system, which so well accommodated its doctrines13 to the wants and wishes of a barbarous age, had, since the art of printing, and the gradual diffusion14 of knowledge, lain floating like some huge Leviathan, into which ten thousand reforming fishers were darting15 their harpoons16. The Roman Church of Scotland, in particular, was at her last gasp17, actually blowing blood and water, yet still with unremitted, though animal exertions18, maintaining the conflict with the assailants, who on every side were plunging19 their weapons into her bulky body. In many large towns, the monasteries20 had been suppressed by the fury of the populace; in other places, their possessions had been usurped21 by the power of the reformed nobles; but still the hierarchy22 made a part of the common law of the realm, and might claim both its property and its privileges wherever it had the means of asserting them. The community of Saint Mary’s of Kennaquhair was considered as being particularly in this situation. They had retained, undiminished, their territorial23 power and influence; and the great barons24 in the neighbourhood, partly from their attachment25 to the party in the state who still upheld the old system of religion, partly because each grudged26 the share of the prey27 which the others must necessarily claim, had as yet abstained28 from despoiling30 the Halidome. The Community was also understood to be protected by the powerful Earls of Northumberland and Westmoreland, whose zealous31 attachment to the Catholic faith caused at a later period the great rebellion of the tenth of Elizabeth.
Thus happily placed, it was supposed by the friends of the decaying cause of the Roman Catholic faith, that some determined32 example of courage and resolution, exercised where the franchises33 of the church were yet entire, and her jurisdiction34 undisputed, might awe35 the progress of the new opinions into activity; and, protected by the laws which still existed, and by the favour of the sovereign, might be the means of securing the territory which Rome yet preserved in Scotland, and perhaps of recovering that which she had lost.
The matter had been considered more than once by the northern Catholics of Scotland, and they had held communication with those of the south. Father Eustace, devoted36 by his public and private vows37, had caught the flame, and had eagerly advised that they should execute the doom39 of heresy on the first reformed preacher, or, according to his sense, on the first heretic of eminence40, who should venture within the precincts of the Halidome. A heart, naturally kind and noble, was, in this instance, as it has been in many more, deceived by its own generosity41. Father Eustace would have been a bad administrator42 of the inquisitorial power of Spain, where that power was omnipotent43, and where judgment44 was exercised without danger to those who inflicted45 it. In such a situation his rigour might have relented in favour of the criminal, whom it was at his pleasure to crush or to place at freedom. But in Scotland, during this crisis, the case was entirely47 different. The question was, whether one of the spirituality dared, at the hazard of his own life, to step forward to assert and exercise the rights of the church. Was there any who would venture to wield49 the thunder in her cause, or must it remain like that in the hand of a painted Jupiter, the object of derision instead of terror? The crisis was calculated to awake the soul of Eustace; for it comprised the question, whether he dared, at all hazards to himself, to execute with stoical severity a measure which, according to the general opinion, was to be advantageous50 to the church, and, according to ancient law, and to his firm belief, was not only justifiable51 but meritorious52.
While such resolutions were agitated53 amongst the Catholics, chance placed a victim within their grasp. Henry Warden had, with the animation54 proper to the enthusiastic reformers of the age, transgressed56, in the vehemence57 of his zeal, the bounds of the discretional liberty allowed to his sect58 so far, that it was thought the Queen’s personal dignity was concerned in bringing him to justice. He fled from Edinburgh, with recommendations, however, from Lord James Stewart, afterwards the celebrated59 Earl of Murray, to some of the Border chieftains of inferior rank, who were privately60 conjured61 to procure62 him safe passage into England. One of the principal persons to whom such recommendation was addressed, was Julian Avenel; for as yet, and for a considerable time afterwards, the correspondence and interest of Lord James lay rather with the subordinate leaders than with the chiefs of great power, and men of distinguished63 influence upon the Border. Julian Avenel had intrigued64 without scruple65 with both parties — yet bad as he was, he certainly would not have practised aught against the guest whom Lord James had recommended to his hospitality, had it not been for what he termed the preacher’s officious inter-meddling in his family affairs. But when he had determined to make Warden rue66 the lecture he had read him, and the scene of public scandal which he had caused in his hall, Julian resolved, with the constitutional shrewdness of his disposition67, to combine his vengeance68 with his interest. And therefore, instead of doing violence on the person of Henry Warden within his own castle, he determined to deliver him up to the Community of Saint Mary’s, and at once make them the instruments of his own revenge, and found a claim of personal recompense, either in money, or in a grant of Abbey lands at a low quit-rent, which last began now to be the established form in which the temporal nobles plundered69 the spirituality.
The Sub-Prior, therefore, of Saint Mary’s, unexpectedly saw the steadfast70, active, and inflexible71 enemy of the church delivered into his hand, and felt himself called upon to make good his promises to the friends of the Catholic faith, by quenching72 heresy in the blood of one of its most zealous professors.
To the honour more of Father Eustace’s heart than of his consistency73, the communication that Henry Warden was placed within his power, struck him with more sorrow than triumph; but his next feelings were those of exultation74. “It is sad,” he said to himself, “to cause human suffering; it is awful to cause human blood to be spilled; but the judge to whom the sword of Saint Paul, as well as the keys of Saint Peter, are confided75, must not flinch76 from his task. Our weapon returns into our own bosom77, if not wielded78 with a steady and unrelenting hand against the irreconcilable79 enemies of the Holy Church. Pereat iste! It is the doom he has incurred80, and were all the heretics in Scotland armed and at his back, they should not prevent its being pronounced, and, if possible, enforced. — Bring the heretic before me,” he said, issuing his commands aloud, and in a tone of authority.
Henry Warden was led in, his hands still bound, but his feet at liberty.
“Clear the apartment,” said the Sub-Prior, “of all but the necessary guard on the prisoner.”
All retired81 except Christie of the Clinthill, who, having dismissed the inferior troopers whom he commanded, unsheathed his sword, and placed himself beside the door, as if taking upon him the character of sentinel.
The judge and the accused met face to face, and in that of both was enthroned the noble confidence of rectitude. The monk82 was about, at the utmost risk to himself and his community, to exercise what in his ignorance he conceived to be his duty. The preacher, actuated by a better-informed, yet not a more ardent83 zeal, was prompt to submit to execution for God’s sake, and to seal, were it necessary, his mission with his blood. Placed at such a distance of time as better enables us to appreciate the tendency of the principles on which they severally acted, we cannot doubt to which the palm ought to be awarded. But the zeal of Father Eustace was as free from passion and personal views as if it had been exerted in a better cause.
They approached each other, armed each and prepared for intellectual conflict, and each intently regarding his opponent, as if either hoped to spy out some defect, some chasm84 in the armour85 of his antagonist86. — As they gazed on each other, old recollections began to awake in either bosom, at the sight of features long unseen and much altered, but not forgotten. The brow of the Sub-Prior dismissed by degrees its frown of command, the look of calm yet stern defiance87 gradually vanished from that of Warden, and both lost for an instant that of gloomy solemnity. They had been ancient and intimate friends in youth at a foreign university, but had been long separated from each other; and the change of name, which the preacher had adopted from motives88 of safety, and the monk from the common custom of the convent, had prevented the possibility of their hitherto recognizing each other in the opposite parts which they had been playing in the great polemical and political drama. But now the Sub-Prior exclaimed, “Henry Wellwood!” and the preacher replied, “William Allan!”— and, stirred by the old familiar names, and never-to-be-forgotten recollections of college studies and college intimacy89, their hands were for a moment locked in each other.
“Remove his bonds,” said the Sub-Prior, and assisted Christie in performing that office with his own hands, although the prisoner scarcely would consent to be unbound, repeating with emphasis, that he rejoiced in the cause for which he suffered shame. When his hands were at liberty, however, he showed his sense of the kindness by again exchanging a grasp and a look of affection with the Sub-Prior.
The salute90 was frank and generous on either side, yet it was but the friendly recognition and greeting which are wont91 to take place betwixt adverse92 champions, who do nothing in hate but all in honour. As each felt the pressure of the situation in which they stood, he quitted the grasp of the other’s hand, and fell back, confronting each other with looks more calm and sorrowful than expressive93 of any other passion. The Sub-Prior was the first to speak.
“And is this, then, the end of that restless activity of mind, that bold and indefatigable94 love of truth that urged investigation95 to its utmost limits, and seemed to take heaven itself by storm — is this the termination of Wellwood’s career? — And having known and loved him during the best years of our youth, do we meet in our old age as judge and criminal?”
“Not as judge and criminal,” said Henry Warden — for to avoid confusion we describe him by his later and best known name —“Not as judge and criminal do we meet, but as a misguided oppressor and his ready and devoted victim. I, too, may ask, are these the harvest of the rich hopes excited by the classical learning, acute logical powers, and varied96 knowledge of William Allan, that he should sink to be the solitary97 drone of a cell, graced only above the swarm98 with the high commission of executing Roman malice99 on all who oppose Roman imposture100?”
“Not to thee,” answered the Sub-Prior, “be assured — not unto thee, nor unto mortal man, will I render an account of the power with which the church may have invested me. It was granted but as a deposit for her welfare — for her welfare it shall at every risk be exercised, without fear and without favour.”
“I expected no less from your misguided zeal,” answered the preacher; “and in me have you met one on whom you may fearlessly exercise your authority, secure that his mind at least will defy your influence, as the snows of that Mont Blanc which we saw together, shrink not under the heat of the hottest summer sun.”
“I do believe thee,” said the Sub-Prior, “I do believe that thine is indeed metal unmalleable by force. Let it yield then to persuasion101. Let us debate these matters of faith, as we once were wont to conduct our scholastic102 disputes, when hours, nay103, days, glided104 past in the mutual105 exercise of our intellectual powers. It may be thou mayest yet hear the voice of the shepherd, and return to the universal fold.”
“No, Allan,” replied the prisoner, “this is no vain question, devised by dreaming scholiasts, on which they may whet48 their intellectual faculties106 until the very metal be wasted away. The errors which I combat are like those fiends which are only cast out by fasting and prayer. Alas107! not many wise, not many learned are chosen; the cottage and the hamlet shall in our days bear witness against the schools and their disciples108. Thy very wisdom, which is foolishness, hath made thee, as the Greeks of old, hold as foolishness that which is the only true wisdom.”
“This,” said the Sub-Prior, sternly, “is the mere109 cant110 of ignorant enthusiasm, which appealeth from learning and from authority, from the sure guidance of that lamp which God hath afforded us in the Councils and in the Fathers of the Church, to a rash, self-willed, and arbitrary interpretation111 of the Scriptures112, wrested113 according to the private opinion of each speculating heretic.”
“I disdain114 to reply to the charge,” replied Warden. “The question at issue between your Church and mine, is, whether we will be judged by the Holy Scriptures, or by the devices and decisions of men not less subject to error than ourselves, and who have defaced our holy religion with vain devices, reared up idols115 of stone and wood, in form of those, who, when they lived, were but sinful creatures, to share the worship due only to the Creator — established a toll-house betwixt heaven and hell, that profitable purgatory116 of which the Pope keeps the keys, like an iniquitous117 judge commutes118 punishment for bribes119, and ——”
“Silence, blasphemer,” said the Sub-Prior, sternly, “or I will have thy blatant120 obloquy121 stopped with a gag!”
“Ay,” replied Warden, “such is the freedom of the Christian122 conference to which Rome’s priests so kindly123 invite us! — the gag — the rack — the axe124 — is the ratio ultima Romae. But know thou, mine ancient friend, that the character of thy former companion is not so changed by age, but that he still dares to endure for the cause of truth all that thy proud hierarchy shall dare to inflict46.”
“Of that,” said the monk, “I nothing doubt — Thou wert ever a lion to turn against the spear of the hunter, not a stag to be dismayed at the sound of his bugle125.”— He walked through the room in silence. “Wellwood,” he said at length, “we can no longer be friends. Our faith, our hope, our anchor on futurity, is no longer the same.”
“Deep is my sorrow that thou speakest truth. May God so judge me,” said the Reformer, “as I would buy the conversion126 of a soul like thine with my dearest heart’s blood.”
“To thee, and with better reason, do I return the wish,” replied the Sub-Prior; “it is such an arm as thine that should defend the bulwarks127 of the Church, and it is now directing the battering-ram against them, and rendering128 practicable the breach129 through which all that is greedy, and all that is base, and all that is mutable and hot-headed in this innovating130 age, already hope to advance to destruction and to spoil. But since such is our fate, that we can no longer fight side by side as friends, let us at least act as generous enemies. You cannot have forgotten,
‘O gran bonta dei caralieri antiqui!
Erano nemici, eran’ de fede diversa’—
Although, perhaps,” he added, stopping short in his quotation131, “your new faith forbids you to reserve a place in your memory, even for what high poets have recorded of loyal faith and generous sentiment.”
“The faith of Buchanan,” replied the preacher, “the faith of Buchanan and of Beza, cannot be unfriendly to literature. But the poet you have quoted affords strains fitter for a dissolute court than for a convent.”
“I might retort on your Theodore Beza,” said the Sub-Prior, smiling; “but I hate the judgment that, like the flesh-fly, skims over whatever is sound, to detect and settle upon some spot which is tainted132. But to the purpose. If I conduct thee or send thee a prisoner to St. Mary’s, thou art to-night a tenant133 of the dungeon134, tomorrow a burden to the gibbet-tree. If I were to let thee go hence at large, I were thereby135 wronging the Holy Church, and breaking mine own solemn vow38. Other resolutions may be adopted in the capital, or better times may speedily ensue. Wilt136 thou remain a true prisoner upon thy parole, rescue or no rescue, as is the phrase amongst the warriors137 of this country? Wilt thou solemnly promise that thou wilt do so, and at my summons thou wilt present thyself before the Abbot and Chapter at Saint Mary’s, and that thou wilt not stir from this house above a quarter of a mile in any direction? Wilt thou, I say, engage me thy word for this? and such is the sure trust which I repose138 in thy good faith, that thou shalt remain here unharmed and unsecured, a prisoner at large, subject only to appear before our court when called upon.”
The preacher paused —“I am unwilling,” he said, “to fetter139 my native liberty by any self-adopted engagement. But I am already in your power, and you may bind140 me to my answer. By such promise, to abide141 within a certain limit, and to appear when called upon, I renounce142 not any liberty which I at present possess, and am free to exercise; but, on the contrary, being in bonds, and at your mercy, I acquire thereby a liberty which I at present possess not. I will therefore accept of thy proffer143, as what is courteously144 offered on thy part, and may be honourably145 accepted on mine.”
“Stay yet,” said the Sub-Prior; “one important part of thy engagement is forgotten — thou art farther to promise, that while thus left at liberty, thou wilt not preach or teach, directly or indirectly146, any of those pestilent heresies147 by which so many souls have been in this our day won over from the kingdom of light to the kingdom of darkness.”
“There we break off our treaty,” said Warden, firmly —“Wo unto me if I preach not the Gospel!”
The Sub-Prior’s countenance148 became clouded, and he again paced the apartment, and muttered, “A plague upon the self-willed fool!” then stopped short in his walk, and proceeded in his argument. —“Why, by thine own reasoning, Henry, thy refusal here is but peevish149 obstinacy150. It is in my power to place you where your preaching can reach no human ear; in promising151 therefore to abstain29 from it, you grant nothing which you have it in your power to refuse.”
“I know not that,” replied Henry Warden; “thou mayest indeed cast me into a dungeon, but can I foretell152 that my Master hath not task-work for me to perform even in that dreary153 mansion154? The chains of saints have, ere now, been the means of breaking the bonds of Satan. In a prison, holy Paul found the jailor whom he brought to believe the word of salvation155, he and all his house.”
“Nay,” said the Sub-Prior, in a tone betwixt anger and scorn, “if you match yourself with the blessed Apostle, it were time we had done — prepare to endure what thy folly156, as well as thy heresy, deserves. — Bind him, soldier.”
With proud submission157 to his fate, and regarding the Sub-Prior with something which almost amounted to a smile of superiority, the preacher placed his arms so that the bonds could be again fastened round him.
“Spare me not,” he said to Christie; for even that ruffian hesitated to draw the cord straitly.
The Sub-Prior, meanwhile, looked at him from under his cowl, which he had drawn158 over his head, and partly over his face, as if he wished to shade his own emotions. They were those of a huntsman within point-blank shot of a noble stag, who is yet too much struck with his majesty159 of front and of antler to take aim at him. They were those of a fowler, who, levelling his gun at a magnificent eagle, is yet reluctant to use his advantage when he sees the noble sovereign of the birds pruning160 himself in proud defiance of whatever may be attempted against him. The heart of the Sub-Prior (bigoted as he was) relented, and he doubted if he ought to purchase, by a rigorous discharge of what he deemed his duty, the remorse161 he might afterwards feel for the death of one so nobly independent in thought and character, the friend, besides, of his own happiest years, during which they had, side by side, striven in the noble race of knowledge, and indulged their intervals162 of repose in the lighter163 studies of classical and general letters.
The Sub-Prior’s hand pressed his half-o’ershadowed cheek, and his eye, more completely obscured, was bent164 on the ground, as if to hide the workings of his relenting nature.
“Were but Edward safe from the infection,” he thought to himself —“Edward, whose eager and enthusiastic mind presses forward in the chase of all that hath even the shadow of knowledge, I might trust this enthusiast55 with the women, after due caution to them that they cannot, without guilt165, attend to his reveries.”
As the Sub-Prior revolved166 these thoughts, and delayed the definitive167 order which was to determine the fate of the prisoner, a sudden noise at the entrance of the tower diverted his attention for an instant, and, his cheek and brow inflamed168 with all the glow of heat and determination, Edward Glendinning rushed into the room.
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warriors
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