I weep not for an absent swain;
For time may happier hours recall,
And parted lovers meet again.
“I weep not for the silent dead.
Their pains are past, their sorrows o’er;
And those that loved their steps must tread,
When death shall join to part no more.”
But worse than absence, worse than death,
She wept her lover’s sullied fame,
And, fired with all the pride of birth,
She wept a soldier’s injured name.
BALLAD1.
The frank and bold voice of Richard was heard in joyous2 gratulation.
“Thomas de Vaux! stout3 Tom of the Gills! by the head of King Henry, thou art welcome to me as ever was flask4 of wine to a jolly toper! I should scarce have known how to order my battle-array, unless I had thy bulky form in mine eye as a landmark5 to form my ranks upon. We shall have blows anon, Thomas, if the saints be gracious to us; and had we fought in thine absence, I would have looked to hear of thy being found hanging upon an elder-tree.”
“I should have borne my disappointment with more Christian7 patience, I trust,” said Thomas de Vaux, “than to have died the death of an apostate8. But I thank your Grace for my welcome, which is the more generous, as it respects a banquet of blows, of which, saving your pleasure, you are ever too apt to engross9 the larger share. But here have I brought one to whom your Grace will, I know, give a yet warmer welcome.”
The person who now stepped forward to make obeisance10 to Richard was a young man of low stature11 and slight form. His dress was as modest as his figure was unimpressive; but he bore on his bonnet12 a gold buckle13, with a gem14, the lustre15 of which could only be rivalled by the brilliancy of the eye which the bonnet shaded. It was the only striking feature in his countenance16; but when once noticed, it ever made a strong impression on the spectator. About his neck there hung in a scarf of sky-blue silk a WREST17 as it was called — that is, the key with which a harp18 is tuned19, and which was of solid gold.
This personage would have kneeled reverently20 to Richard, but the Monarch21 raised him in joyful22 haste, pressed him to his bosom23 warmly, and kissed him on either side of the face.
“Blondel de Nesle!” he exclaimed joyfully24 —“welcome from Cyprus, my king of minstrels! — welcome to the King of England, who rates not his own dignity more highly than he does thine. I have been sick, man, and, by my soul, I believe it was for lack of thee; for, were I half way to the gate of heaven, methinks thy strains could call me back. And what news, my gentle master, from the land of the lyre? Anything fresh from the TROUVEURS of Provence? Anything from the minstrels of merry Normandy? Above all, hast thou thyself been busy? But I need not ask thee — thou canst not be idle if thou wouldst; thy noble qualities are like a fire burning within, and compel thee to pour thyself out in music and song.”
“Something I have learned, and something I have done, noble King,” answered the celebrated25 Blondel, with a retiring modesty26 which all Richard’s enthusiastic admiration27 of his skill had been unable to banish28.
“We will hear thee, man — we will hear thee instantly,” said the King. Then, touching29 Blondel’s shoulder kindly30, he added, “That is, if thou art not fatigued31 with thy journey; for I would sooner ride my best horse to death than injure a note of thy voice.”
“My voice is, as ever, at the service of my royal patron,” said Blondel; “but your Majesty32,” he added, looking at some papers on the table, “seems more importantly engaged, and the hour waxes late.”
“Not a whit33, man, not a whit, my dearest Blondel. I did but sketch34 an array of battle against the Saracens, a thing of a moment, almost as soon done as the routing of them.”
“Methinks, however,” said Thomas de Vaux, “it were not unfit to inquire what soldiers your Grace hath to array. I bring reports on that subject from Ascalon.”
“Thou art a mule35, Thomas,” said the King —“a very mule for dullness and obstinacy36! Come, nobles — a hall — a hall — range ye around him! Give Blondel the tabouret. Where is his harp-bearer? — or, soft, lend him my harp, his own may be damaged by the journey.”
“I would your Grace would take my report,” said Thomas de Vaux. “I have ridden far, and have more list to my bed than to have my ears tickled37.”
“THY ears tickled!” said the King; “that must be with a woodcock’s feather, and not with sweet sounds. Hark thee, Thomas, do thine ears know the singing of Blondel from the braying38 of an ass39?”
“In faith, my liege,” replied Thomas, “I cannot well say; but setting Blondel out of the question, who is a born gentleman, and doubtless of high acquirements, I shall never, for the sake of your Grace’s question, look on a minstrel but I shall think upon an ass.”
“And might not your manners,” said Richard, “have excepted me, who am a gentleman born as well as Blondel, and, like him, a guild-brother of the joyeuse science?”
“Your Grace should remember,” said De Vaux, smiling, “that ’tis useless asking for manners from a mule.”
“Most truly spoken,” said the King; “and an ill-conditioned animal thou art. But come hither, master mule, and be unloaded, that thou mayest get thee to thy litter, without any music being wasted on thee. Meantime do thou, good brother of Salisbury, go to our consort41’s tent, and tell her that Blondel has arrived, with his budget fraught42 with the newest minstrelsy. Bid her come hither instantly, and do thou escort her, and see that our cousin, Edith Plantagenet, remain not behind.”
His eye then rested for a moment on the Nubian, with that expression of doubtful meaning which his countenance usually displayed when he looked at him.
“Ha, our silent and secret messenger returned? — Stand up, slave, behind the back of De Neville, and thou shalt hear presently sounds which will make thee bless God that He afflicted43 thee rather with dumbness than deafness.”
So saying, he turned from the rest of the company towards De Vaux, and plunged44 instantly into the military details which that baron45 laid before him.
About the time that the Lord of Gilsland had finished his audience, a messenger announced that the Queen and her attendants were approaching the royal tent. —“A flask of wine, ho!” said the King; “of old King Isaac’s long-saved Cyprus, which we won when we stormed Famagosta. Fill to the stout Lord of Gilsland, gentles — a more careful and faithful servant never had any prince.”
“I am glad,” said Thomas de Vaux, “that your Grace finds the mule a useful slave, though his voice be less musical than horse-hair or wire.”
“What, thou canst not yet digest that quip of the mule?” said Richard. “Wash it down with a brimming flagon, man, or thou wilt46 choke upon it. Why, so — well pulled! — and now I will tell thee, thou art a soldier as well as I, and we must brook47 each other’s jests in the hall as each other’s blows in the tourney, and love each other the harder we hit. By my faith, if thou didst not hit me as hard as I did thee in our late encounter! thou gavest all thy wit to the thrust. But here lies the difference betwixt thee and Blondel. Thou art but my comrade — I might say my pupil — in the art of war; Blondel is my master in the science of minstrelsy and music. To thee I permit the freedom of intimacy48; to him I must do reverence49, as to my superior in his art. Come, man, be not peevish50, but remain and hear our glee.”
“To see your Majesty in such cheerful mood,” said the Lord of Gilsland, “by my faith, I could remain till Blondel had achieved the great romance of King Arthur, which lasts for three days.”
“We will not tax your patience so deeply,” said the King. “But see, yonder glare of torches without shows that our consort approaches. Away to receive her, man, and win thyself grace in the brightest eyes of Christendom. Nay51, never stop to adjust thy cloak. See, thou hast let Neville come between the wind and the sails of thy galley52.”
“He was never before me in the field of battle,” said De Vaux, not greatly pleased to see himself anticipated by the more active service of the chamberlain.
“No, neither he nor any one went before thee there, my good Tom of the Gills,” said the King, “unless it was ourself, now and then.”
“Ay, my liege,” said De Vaux, “and let us do justice to the unfortunate. The unhappy Knight54 of the Leopard55 hath been before me too, at a season; for, look you, he weighs less on horseback, and so —”
“Hush!” said the King, interrupting him in a peremptory56 tone, “not a word of him,” and instantly stepped forward to greet his royal consort; and when he had done so, he presented to her Blondel, as king of minstrelsy and his master in the gay science. Berengaria, who well knew that her royal husband’s passion for poetry and music almost equalled his appetite for warlike fame, and that Blondel was his especial favourite, took anxious care to receive him with all the flattering distinctions due to one whom the King delighted to honour. Yet it was evident that, though Blondel made suitable returns to the compliments showered on him something too abundantly by the royal beauty, he owned with deeper reverence and more humble57 gratitude58 the simple and graceful59 welcome of Edith, whose kindly greeting appeared to him, perhaps, sincere in proportion to its brevity and simplicity60.
Both the Queen and her royal husband were aware of this distinction, and Richard, seeing his consort somewhat piqued61 at the preference assigned to his cousin, by which perhaps he himself did not feel much gratified, said in the hearing of both, “We minstrels, Berengaria, as thou mayest see by the bearing of our master Blondel, pay more reverence to a severe judge like our kinswoman than to a kindly, partial friend like thyself, who is willing to take our worth upon trust.”
Edith was moved by this sarcasm62 of her royal kinsman63, and hesitated not to reply that, “To be a harsh and severe judge was not an attribute proper to her alone of all the Plantagenets.”
She had perhaps said more, having some touch of the temper of that house, which, deriving64 their name and cognizance from the lowly broom (PLANTA GENISTA), assumed as an emblem65 of humility66, were perhaps one of the proudest families that ever ruled in England; but her eye, when kindling67 in her reply, suddenly caught those of the Nubian, although he endeavoured to conceal68 himself behind the nobles who were present, and she sunk upon a seat, turning so pale that Queen Berengaria deemed herself obliged to call for water and essences, and to go through the other ceremonies appropriate to a lady’s swoon. Richard, who better estimated Edith’s strength of mind, called to Blondel to assume his seat and commence his lay, declaring that minstrelsy was worth every other recipe to recall a Plantagenet to life. “Sing us,” he said, “that song of the Bloody69 Vest, of which thou didst formerly70 give me the argument ere I left Cyprus. Thou must be perfect in it by this time, or, as our yeomen say, thy bow is broken.”
The anxious eye of the minstrel, however, dwelt on Edith, and it was not till he observed her returning colour that he obeyed the repeated commands of the King. Then, accompanying his voice with the harp, so as to grace, but yet not drown, the sense of what he sung, he chanted in a sort of recitative one of those ancient adventures of love and knighthood which were wont71 of yore to win the public attention. So soon as he began to prelude72, the insignificance73 of his personal appearance seemed to disappear, and his countenance glowed with energy and inspiration. His full, manly75, mellow76 voice, so absolutely under command of the purest taste, thrilled on every ear and to every heart. Richard, rejoiced as after victory, called out the appropriate summons for silence,
“Listen, lords, in bower77 and hall;”
while, with the zeal78 of a patron at once and a pupil, he arranged the circle around, and hushed them into silence; and he himself sat down with an air of expectation and interest, not altogether unmixed with the gravity of the professed79 critic. The courtiers turned their eyes on the King, that they might be ready to trace and imitate the emotions his features should express, and Thomas de Vaux yawned tremendously, as one who submitted unwillingly80 to a wearisome penance81. The song of Blondel was of course in the Norman language, but the verses which follow express its meaning and its manner.
The Bloody Vest.
’Twas near the fair city of Benevent,
When the sun was setting on bough82 and bent83,
And knights84 were preparing in bower and tent,
On the eve of the Baptist’s tournament;
When in Lincoln green a stripling gent,
Well seeming a page by a princess sent,
Wander’d the camp, and, still as he went,
Inquired for the Englishman, Thomas a Kent.
Far hath he far’d, and farther must fare,
Till he finds his pavilion nor stately nor rare —
Little save iron and steel was there;
And, as lacking the coin to pay armourer’s care,
With his sinewy86 arms to the shoulders bare,
The good knight with hammer and file did repair
The mail that tomorrow must see him wear,
For the honour of Saint John and his lady fair.
“Thus speaks my lady,” the page said he,
And the knight bent lowly both head and knee,
“She is Benevent’s Princess so high in degree,
And thou art as lowly as knight may well be —
He that would climb so lofty a tree,
Or spring such a gulf87 as divides her from thee,
Must dare some high deed, by which all men may see
His ambition is back’d by his hie chivalrie.
“Therefore thus speaks my lady,” the fair page he said,
And the knight lowly louted with hand and with head,
“Fling aside the good armour85 in which thou art clad,
And don thou this weed of her night-gear instead,
For a hauberk of steel, a kirtle of thread;
And charge, thus attir’d, in the tournament dread88,
And fight as thy wont is where most blood is shed,
And bring honour away, or remain with the dead.”
Untroubled in his look, and untroubled in his breast,
The knight the weed hath taken, and reverently hath kiss’d.
“Now blessed be the moment, the messenger be blest!
Much honour’d do I hold me in my lady’s high behest;
And say unto my lady, in this dear night-weed dress’d,
To the best armed champion I will not veil my crest89;
But if I live and bear me well ’tis her turn to take the test.”
Here, gentles, ends the foremost fytte of the Lay of the Bloody Vest.
“Thou hast changed the measure upon us unawares in that last couplet, my Blondel,” said the King.
“Most true, my lord,” said Blondel. “I rendered the verses from the Italian of an old harper whom I met in Cyprus, and not having had time either to translate it accurately90 or commit it to memory, I am fain to supply gaps in the music and the verse as I can upon the spur of the moment, as you see boors91 mend a quickset fence with a fagot.”
“Nay, on my faith,” said the King, “I like these rattling92, rolling Alexandrines. Methinks they come more twangingly off to the music than that briefer measure.”
“Both are licensed93, as is well known to your Grace,” answered Blondel.
“They are so, Blondel,” said Richard, “yet methinks the scene where there is like to be fighting will go best on in these same thundering Alexandrines, which sound like the charge of cavalry94, while the other measure is but like the sidelong amble95 of a lady’s palfrey.”
“It shall be as your Grace pleases,” replied Blondel, and began again to prelude.
“Nay, first cherish thy fancy with a cup of fiery96 Chios wine,” said the King. “And hark thee, I would have thee fling away that new-fangled restriction97 of thine, of terminating in accurate and similar rhymes. They are a constraint98 on thy flow of fancy, and make thee resemble a man dancing in fetters99.”
“The fetters are easily flung off, at least,” said Blondel, again sweeping100 his fingers over the strings101, as one who would rather have played than listened to criticism.
“But why put them on, man?” continued the King. “Wherefore thrust thy genius into iron bracelets103? I marvel104 how you got forward at all. I am sure I should not have been able to compose a stanza105 in yonder hampered106 measure.”
Blondel looked down, and busied himself with the strings of his harp, to hide an involuntary smile which crept over his features; but it escaped not Richard’s observation.
“By my faith, thou laughest at me, Blondel,” he said; “and, in good truth, every man deserves it who presumes to play the master when he should be the pupil. But we kings get bad habits of self-opinion. Come, on with thy lay, dearest Blondel — on after thine own fashion, better than aught that we can suggest, though we must needs be talking.”
Blondel resumed the lay; but as extemporaneous107 composition was familiar to him, he failed not to comply with the King’s hints, and was perhaps not displeased108 to show with how much ease he could new-model a poem, even while in the act of recitation.
THE BLOODY VEST.
FYTTE SECOND.
The Baptist’s fair morrow beheld109 gallant110 feats111 — There was winning of honour and losing of seats; There was hewing112 with falchions and splintering of staves — The victors won glory, the vanquish’d won graves. Oh, many a knight there fought bravely and well, Yet one was accounted his peers to excel, And ’twas he whose sole armour on body and breast Seem’d the weed of a damsel when bouned for her rest.
There were some dealt him wounds that were bloody and sore, But others respected his plight113, and forbore. “It is some oath of honour,” they said, “and I trow, ’Twere unknightly to slay114 him achieving his vow115.” Then the Prince, for his sake, bade the tournament cease — He flung down his warder, the trumpets116 sung peace; And the judges declare, and competitors yield, That the Knight of the Night-gear was first in the field.
The feast it was nigh, and the mass it was nigher, When before the fair Princess low looted a squire117, And deliver’d a garment unseemly to view, With sword-cut and spear-thrust, all hack’d and pierc’d through; All rent and all tatter’d, all clotted118 with blood, With foam119 of the horses, with dust, and with mud; Not the point of that lady’s small finger, I ween, Could have rested on spot was unsullied and clean.
“This token my master, Sir Thomas a Kent, Restores to the Princess of fair Benevent; He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit; Through life’s utmost peril120 the prize I have won, And now must the faith of my mistress be shown: For she who prompts knights on such danger to run Must avouch121 his true service in front of the sun.
“‘I restore,’ says my master, ‘the garment I’ve worn, And I claim of the Princess to don it in turn; For its stains and its rents she should prize it the more, Since by shame ’tis unsullied, though crimson’d with gore122.’” Then deep blush’d the Princess — yet kiss’d she and press’d The blood-spotted robes to her lips and her breast. “Go tell my true knight, church and chamber53 shall show If I value the blood on this garment or no.”
And when it was time for the nobles to pass, In solemn procession to minster and mass, The first walk’d the Princess in purple and pall123, But the blood-besmear’d night-robe she wore over all; And eke124, in the hall, where they all sat at dine, When she knelt to her father and proffer’d the wine, Over all her rich robes and state jewels she wore That wimple unseemly bedabbled with gore.
Then lords whisper’d ladies, as well you may think, And ladies replied with nod, titter, and wink125; And the Prince, who in anger and shame had look’d down, Turn’d at length to his daughter, and spoke40 with a frown: “Now since thou hast publish’d thy folly126 and guilt127, E’en atone128 with thy hand for the blood thou hast spilt; Yet sore for your boldness you both will repent129, When you wander as exiles from fair Benevent’”
Then out spoke stout Thomas, in hall where he stood, Exhausted130 and feeble, but dauntless of mood: “The blood that I lost for this daughter of thine, I pour’d forth131 as freely as flask gives its wine; And if for my sake she brooks132 penance and blame, Do not doubt I will save her from suffering and shame; And light will she reck of thy princedom and rent, When I hail her, in England, the Countess of Kent,”
A murmur133 of applause ran through the assembly, following the example of Richard himself, who loaded with praises his favourite minstrel, and ended by presenting him with a ring of considerable value. The Queen hastened to distinguish the favourite by a rich bracelet102, and many of the nobles who were present followed the royal example.
“Is our cousin Edith,” said the King, “become insensible to the sound of the harp she once loved?”
“She thanks Blondel for his lay,” replied Edith, “but doubly the kindness of the kinsman who suggested it.”
“Thou art angry, cousin,” said the King; “angry because thou hast heard of a woman more wayward than thyself. But you escape me not. I will walk a space homeward with you towards the Queen’s pavilion. We must have conference together ere the night has waned134 into morning.”
The Queen and her attendants were now on foot, and the other guests withdrew from the royal tent. A train with blazing torches, and an escort of archers135, awaited Berengaria without the pavilion, and she was soon on her way homeward. Richard, as he had proposed, walked beside his kinswoman, and compelled her to accept of his arm as her support, so that they could speak to each other without being overheard.
“What answer, then, am I to return to the noble Soldan?” said Richard. “The kings and princes are falling from me, Edith; this new quarrel hath alienated136 them once more. I would do something for the Holy Sepulchre by composition, if not by victory; and the chance of my doing this depends, alas137, on the caprice of a woman. I would lay my single spear in the rest against ten of the best lances in Christendom, rather than argue with a wilful138 wench who knows not what is for her own good. What answer, coz, am I to return to the Soldan? It must be decisive.”
“Tell him,” said Edith, “that the poorest of the Plantagenets will rather wed74 with misery139 than with misbelief.”
“Shall I say with slavery, Edith?” said the King. “Methinks that is nearer thy thoughts.”
“There is no room,” said Edith, “for the suspicion you so grossly insinuate140. Slavery of the body might have been pitied, but that of the soul is only to be despised. Shame to thee, King of merry England. Thou hast enthralled141 both the limbs and the spirit of a knight, one scarce less famed than thyself.”
“Should I not prevent my kinswoman from drinking poison, by sullying the vessel142 which contained it, if I saw no other means of disgusting her with the fatal liquor?” replied the King.
“It is thyself,” answered Edith, “that would press me to drink poison, because it is proffered143 in a golden chalice144.”
“Edith,” said Richard, “I cannot force thy resolution; but beware you shut not the door which Heaven opens. The hermit145 of Engaddi — he whom Popes and Councils have regarded as a prophet — hath read in the stars that thy marriage shall reconcile me with a powerful enemy, and that thy husband shall be Christian, leaving thus the fairest ground to hope that the conversion146 of the Soldan, and the bringing in of the sons of Ishmael to the pale of the church, will be the consequence of thy wedding with Saladin. Come, thou must make some sacrifice rather than mar6 such happy prospects147.”
“Men may sacrifice rams148 and goats,” said Edith, “but not honour and conscience. I have heard that it was the dishonour149 of a Christian maiden150 which brought the Saracens into Spain; the shame of another is no likely mode of expelling them from Palestine.”
“Dost thou call it shame to become an empress?” said the King.
“I call it shame and dishonour to profane151 a Christian sacrament by entering into it with an infidel whom it cannot bind152; and I call it foul153 dishonour that I, the descendant of a Christian princess, should become of free will the head of a haram of heathen concubines.”
“Well, kinswoman,” said the King, after a pause, “I must not quarrel with thee, though I think thy dependent condition might have dictated154 more compliance155.”
“My liege,” replied Edith, “your Grace hath worthily156 succeeded to all the wealth, dignity, and dominion157 of the House of Plantagenet — do not, therefore, begrudge158 your poor kinswoman some small share of their pride.”
“By my faith, wench,” said the King, “thou hast unhorsed me with that very word, so we will kiss and be friends. I will presently dispatch thy answer to Saladin. But after all, coz, were it not better to suspend your answer till you have seen him? Men say he is pre-eminently handsome.”
“There is no chance of our meeting, my lord,” said Edith.
“By Saint George, but there is next to a certainty of it,” said the King; “for Saladin will doubtless afford us a free field for the doing of this new battle of the Standard, and will witness it himself. Berengaria is wild to behold159 it also; and I dare be sworn not a feather of you, her companions and attendants, will remain behind — least of all thou thyself, fair coz. But come, we have reached the pavilion, and must part; not in unkindness thou, oh — nay, thou must seal it with thy lip as well as thy hand, sweet Edith — it is my right as a sovereign to kiss my pretty vassals160.”
He embraced her respectfully and affectionately, and returned through the moonlit camp, humming to himself such snatches of Blondel’s lay as he could recollect161.
On his arrival he lost no time in making up his dispatches for Saladin, and delivered them to the Nubian, with a charge to set out by peep of day on his return to the Soldan.
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compliance
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worthily
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dominion
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