Castruccio was presented to the doge, and partook of all the brilliant amusements of Venice. But at length the time arrived, when he was to depart with Sir Ethelbert Atawel, and Guinigi to return to his farm among the hills. It was a sorrowful event for Atawel and Castruccio to separate from this kind and valued friend. Before he departed, Guinigi talked long with Castruccio, and vehemently11 urged him, when he should arrive in England, that he would put himself entirely12 under the guidance of Atawel. “You will be,” he said, “in a strange country, with unknown manners and customs; so that without a guide you would find it difficult to steer13 a right course among them. My dear Castruccio, God only knows what your future fortunes will be; but your father intrusted you to my care, and I feel the most earnest anxiety that you should enter life under good auspices14, and enjoy, at least with untarnished pleasure, the years of youthful hope. Be towards Atawel as you ever have been to me; the natural ingenuousness15 of your character will discover to you the medium, which combines the graceful16 submission17 of youth, with that independence that is the dearest birthright of man. Atawel is gentle and unassuming; you must seek his counsels; for his best wisdom will be bestowed19 upon you, when you shew a desire to consult it.”
They separated: Atawel and Castruccio departed with a few attendants towards Milan on the road to England.
Castruccio now found himself with a companion, different from him to whom he had just bade an affectionate farewell. Atawel was more a man of the world than Guinigi; nor did he possess his genius and surpassing excellence20. Entering into the common road of life, he was notwithstanding able to regulate his conduct by just principles, and to recommend himself by a sound judgement and a steady courage; but he was unable to strike into new paths, and become an adventurer in life and morals as Guinigi had been. He had great sensibility and warm affections; and various misfortunes in life had turned a constitutional gravity into melancholy21. Yet he unveiled his spirit for a while from the clouds that obscured it, and entered with interest into the views and expectations of Castruccio.
They conversed23 together concerning his cousin Alderigo, who was a rich merchant in London, and who by his respectability and talents had acquired influence even among the nobles of England. Alderigo had been known and loved by Edward I: for in those days kings did not disdain24 to seek friends among those classes of society from which ordinary etiquette25 would have excluded them. The merchant however had withdrawn26 from all communication with the court, since the accession of Edward of Caernarvon; for the childish amusements of this monarch27 ill accorded with the dispositions29 of one who had been the friend of his manly30 father. When the barons31 of England remonstrated32 with Edward, and insisted on the exile of Piers33 Gavaston, Alderigo had however come forward to persuade the king to this necessary concession34.
Atawel also was an enemy of Gavaston; and, as he sketched35 the political state of England to his young companion, he painted with indignation the change from the spirited counsels of the late sovereign, to the puerile36 amusements and weak inaction of his son. He described Gavaston as a man expert in feats37 of bodily activity, but destitute38 of judgement and manly enterprize. He said that he was vain-glorious, rapacious39, and profuse40. Insolent41 to his superiors and equals, tyrannical to his inferiors, he deigned42 to use the arts of courtesy to the king alone: even the queen failed in obtaining from him the respect due to her sex and dignity. He had been raised to rank and wealth by the royal favour; but he conducted himself with an arrogance43, that would not have been tolerated in the first noble of the land. He was not content to overcome his adversary44 in the field of honour; but he endeavoured to add to his shame by sarcasm45 and ridicule46. The barons exerted their utmost power for his destruction; Edward yielded to force; but on the first favourable47 opportunity he recalled his friend, who, untaught by adversity, again irritated his rivals to that hostility48 in which he was sure to be worsted.
The animated49 picture which Atawel drew of the discontent and turbulence50 of the English barons, although it would have excited terror in these quiet times, delighted Castruccio, as affording a hope of having now found a fitting stage on which he might commence his active career. The loss of Scotland to England, and the inaction of the king and his favourite, easily induced him to sympathize in the indignation of Atawel; and he readily believed, that the insolence51 of the upstart and unworthy Gavaston demanded and justified53 the most rigorous measures to ensure his expulsion from the kingdom.
Castruccio was now eighteen years of age. His converse22 with Guinigi had indued him with a manliness54 of thought and firmness of judgement beyond his years; at the same time that the vivacity55 of his temper often made him appear rash, and the gaiety of his disposition28 led him to seek with ardour the common diversions of his age. He was bred as a young esquire in all those accomplishments56 which were deemed essential to a gentleman, and was expert in feats of horsemanship and arms, in the dance, and in other exercises peculiar58 to his country. His countenance59, which was uncommonly60 beautiful, expressed frankness, benevolence61 and confidence; when animated, his eyes shone with fire; when silent, there was a deep seriousness in his expression, that commanded attention, combined at the same time with a modesty62 and grace which prepossessed every one in his favour. His slight, but active form never moved without displaying some new elegance63 of person; and his voice, whose modulated64 accents stole on the ear like sweetest music, forced the hearer to love him; his laugh, like that of a child, heartfelt and joyous65, was entirely distinct from the sneer66 of contempt, or the arrogance of superiority. He had read little; but he had conversed with those who had studied deeply, so that his conversation and manners were imbued67 with that refinement68 and superior sweetness, which are peculiar to those who unite the cultivation69 of the mind to exterior70 accomplishments. Gay, ambitious and beloved, there was little pride, and no insolence in his nature: nor could he endure either to be the object of arrogance, or to perceive it exercised over others.
Such was Castruccio, when in the beginning of the year 1309 he landed on the English shores. Gavaston had just been expelled by a confederacy of the nobles, who for a while had assumed the royal power into their own hands. But, instead of having been poorly exiled according to the wish of the barons, his royal master had invested him with the Lieutenancy71 of Ireland, where he signalized himself by his victories over the rebels. Edward however could not be happy in the absence of his favourite, but, melancholy and irresolute72, watched for a fitting opportunity, when the hatred of his nobles should in some degree be softened73, to recall him.
Alderigo received his young cousin with the warmest affection, and shewed every disposition to aid by his wealth and influence, in placing him in such a situation as might gratify his ambition. Atawel introduced him at court; and, if the haughty74 barons of England viewed with a supercilious75 smile the youthful beauty and accomplishments of the stranger, Edward was pleased to behold76 one, who by his foreign air, and the refinement of his manners, recalled the memory of his exiled favourite. He distinguished77 Castruccio among the crowd; and the youth, dazzled perhaps by royal favour, easily altered his prepossessions in favour of the barons, into love and pity for their oppressed sovereign. At balls and tournaments Castruccio shone among the throng78. He was yet too youthful to enter into manual contests with the English lords; but the management of his horse, his graceful person, his skill in the dance, and other light games, endeared him to Edward, who was incapable79 of sympathizing in the ruder exercises in which his barons were so jealous of their pre-eminence.
Atawel and Alderigo viewed the favour which Castruccio enjoyed with the king, with fearful eyes: they dreaded80 the jealousy81 of the nobles; but happily this passion was not excited on the present occasion. On the contrary they were rather pleased, that the king should be amused by the company of one, whose youth and precarious82 situation withheld83 him from entering into the lists of rivalry84 with them. The Italian Castruccio, dependent on the bounty85 of a merchant of his own country, no conqueror86 at the tournament, neither thwarting87, nor understanding their several plans of aggrandisement, was past over with a scornful smile, which the youth, regarding himself as a sufferer in common with their injured king, did not receive as a degradation88. But deeper feelings of sympathy now gave him other sentiments.
Edward’s favourite recreation was the game of tennis; in which, it being common in Italy under the name of la Palla, Castruccio excelled. One day after having amused themselves at this exercise in one of the royal gardens, Edward feeling fatigued89 gave up the game, and leaning on Castruccio’s arm, strolled with him down one of the shady alleys90. And here for the first time he opened his heart to his new friend: he described Gavaston as the most amiable91 and the most accomplished92 knight93 of the times: he dwelt with touching94 earnestness on his own attachment95 to him, and his forced separation; tears started into his eyes as he spoke96 of the desolate97 state of his heart, deprived of the company of his first, his only and his dearest friend; and his cheeks glowed with indignation, as he mentioned the arrogance of his nobles, and the state of slavery to which he was reduced.
Castruccio was deeply moved; and the natural feeling of pity, with which he was inspired at the spectacle of the slavery of one, who it was presumed had a divine right to command, was augmented98 by the idea that he had been found a worthy52 deposit for the overflowings of the royal sorrows. He offered his services with earnestness, and Edward gladly accepted his proffers99. “Yes, my dear friend,” he cried, “the accomplishment57 of my fondest wishes shall devolve upon you. You shall be my saviour100; the saviour of my honour, and the cause of the only happiness I can enjoy on earth, the return of my beloved Piers.”
Edward then disclosed to Castruccio the various expedients101 he had used, to pacify102 his nobles, and to obtain the re — establishment of his friend. He acknowledged that he had just received from the Pope a dispensation of Gavaston’s oath never again to set foot in England; and a faithful messenger was only necessary, to carry this intelligence to his friend, and bid him instantly return; so that the barons, taken unawares, should not have time to plot new disturbances103, before the king should be able to defy their worst, secure of the life and the society of his favourite. “That task shall devolve on you, my dear Castruccio,” said he; “and I shall be indebted to you for the happiness of again embracing him to whom I have bound myself by the ties of an eternal friendship. Frame a plausible104 excuse for quitting England, and hasten to Dublin, where Piers impatiently waits a messenger from me; that you may not be exposed to the slightest risk from the suspicion of the nobles, I will give you no letter: but this ring, as was agreed upon between myself and my friend, will obtain for its bearer his full confidence and friendship.”
Castruccio took leave of the monarch, and hastened to the house of Alderigo, full of pride, hope, and joy. He had now indeed entered upon life, and as he hoped, with the best auspices: he had become the chosen confident of a king, and his secret messenger; he readily believed that prudence105, and prudence should not fail him, would cause his rise to the highest dignities. His feelings were not entirely selfish; for he deeply pitied Edward, and was sincerely happy in serving him: but to pity and serve a king, was a state of being full of pleasure. In accordance with the prudent106 plan he had marked out for himself, he remained at the house of his kinsman107 during several days, secluded108 from his courtly friends, and absenting himself entirely from the palace. On occasion of the arrival of a few letters from France, he informed Atawel and Alderigo, that it was absolutely necessary for him to undertake a journey to that country. As he alleged109 the most frivolous110 causes as the motive111 of this determination, his friends easily perceived that he was endeavouring to mislead them by a false pretext112. The Italian, after having in vain endeavoured to win his confidence, contented113 himself with recommending prudence and caution: Atawel spoke more seriously, and bade the youth beware, before he mixed with the intrigues114 of a foreign court, in which if he were once detected, he had neither friends nor connections to extricate115 him from the rage of his powerful adversaries116. And then again he intreated Castruccio to consider the justice of the cause in the service of which he enlisted117 himself, and what would be the probable consequences, if through his means Edward were to establish a correspondence with his favourite. The young man listened with seeming deference118, but allowed no word to escape him, that might countenance the idea that his journey was influenced by any except private considerations.
He departed from London, as if on his way to France; then suddenly changing his route, he traversed the kingdom, and crossing from Bristol to Cork119, hastened to Dublin, and carried to Gavaston the welcome command of the king to return immediately to England; the ring that he bore from Edward, was an immediate120 passport to the friendship of the illustrious exile.
Piers Gavaston was still in the flower of his age. If he were not handsome, yet the expression of his features was manly and interesting; he was graceful in person, and strong of muscle, though agile121 of limb: he was courteous122 in general society, though a certain haughtiness123 was diffused124 over his whole manner, which forbade any more familiar feeling than that of admiration125. Among his friends this air of superiority yielded to the most winning kindness and affability of demeanour, which, being ever a mark of distinguished affection, did not fail to bind126 them to him by an additional tie of gratitude127. He spoke several languages with great fluency128; he rivalled the most graceful knights129 of France, and far surpassed the English in all chivalrous130 accomplishments. The consciousness of power with which his dexterity131 inspired him, generated an independence and frankness of action, which would have rendered him amiable to all, had it not been tainted132 by vanity and presumption133. He was magnificent in his attire134, fond of parade, and proud of his dazzling fortunes, all heavy sins among his English enemies. He paid great attention, and made much shew of love to Castruccio, whom if princely affability had before moved, the gracious treatment of Gavaston made a complete conquest of him.
They returned together to England. Edward had arrived at Chester, that he might behold his friend a few days the sooner; and he flew to his arms with the affectionate transports with which a child might welcome the return of its absent mother.
A strict friendship was established between Gavaston and Castruccio. Piers had not learned moderation from adversity; his wealth and luxury were increased, and with these his vanity and insufferable presumption. Atawel in vain endeavoured to win Castruccio from his society; but, if the deportment of Gavaston was arrogant135 towards the English lords, it was so much the more affable and insinuating136 towards Castruccio. The king also loved the Italian; and, not examining the merits of the case, he allowed himself to be entirely led away by the personal attachment that he bore to Edward and Piers.
Gavaston had wealth and rank; and, although he was considered an upstart, yet the possession of these gave him a consequence in the eyes of the nobles, of which Castruccio was wholly divested137. They looked on the latter as one may regard a stinging insect, whose insignificance is not to compound for his annoyance138. They endured the insolence of Gavaston with the sullenness139 of men who look into the future for revenge; but they bore the far slighter pain which Castruccio inflicted140 upon them, with the impatience141 one feels at an injury, however slight, for which we are by no means prepared. And, if Castruccio himself manifested few symptoms of insolence, yet he was supported by that of Gavaston; and they felt that, though for the present they could not injure the favourite personally, yet they might wound him through his Italian friend. This latter also was not unfrequently provoked beyond his usual courtesy by the pride and taunts142 of his enemies; and, if ever he dared reply, or when Gavaston replied for him, the nobles felt a rage they could ill smother143 at what they deemed so despicable an offender144. The indications of mischief145 which had before slightly manifested themselves, broke out one day with a violence that suddenly terminated Castruccio’s visit to England.
He accompanied the king, who went with a train of the first nobility on a hawking146 party, to Chelsea. The exercise excited Castruccio’s blood, and inspired him with an exaltation of spirits which might have exhausted147 itself in gaiety alone, had not a quarrel, that arose between him and one of the nobles, urged him to a fury he could ill control. The contention148 began concerning the comparative flight of their birds; and, heated as they were by personal animosity, it became loud and bitter. Edward in vain endeavoured to appease149 them; but when, seconded by his friends, the English nobleman established his triumph in the contest, Castruccio replied by a sarcasm which so irritated his antagonist150, that, no longer restraining his indignation, he darted151 forward, and struck Castruccio. The fiery152 youth, crying in Italian, “By blood, and not by words, are blows to be avenged153!” — drew his stiletto, and plunged154 it into the bosom155 of his adversary. A hundred swords immediately flashed in the air; Edward threw himself before his friend to protect him: Gavaston, Atawel and others who loved him, hastily withdrew him from the crowd, made him mount his horse, and without a moment’s delay they rode to the river’s side below the Tower, where they fortunately found a vessel156 on the point of sailing for Holland. Without waiting to see his other friends, without going to the house of Alderigo for money or equipment, they hurried him on board the vessel, which immediately got under way, and dropped down with a favourable wind towards the Nore.
The barons, burning with revenge, had sent archers157 to the house of Alderigo, who, not finding Castruccio, seized upon his kinsman, and threw him into prison. A law then existed in England, that if a foreigner killed a native and escaped, those with whom he resided became amenable158 for the murder. Alderigo was therefore in the most imminent159 peril160; but Edward, as the last act of friendship that he could bestow18 upon Castruccio, saved the life and fortune of his kinsman. And thus, after a year’s residence in this island, did the youth bring to a disastrous161 conclusion all the hopes and expectations which had led him thither162.
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