With unrestrained loose companions;
While he, young, wanton, and effeminate boy,
Takes on the point of honour, to support
So dissolute a crew.
RICHARD II.
The conversation which Albert had in vain endeavoured to interrupt, flowed on in the same course after he had left the room. It entertained Louis Kerneguy; for personal vanity, or an over-sensitiveness to deserved reproof1, were not among the faults of his character, and were indeed incompatible2 with an understanding, which, combined with more strength of principle, steadiness of exertion3, and self-denial, might have placed Charles high on the list of English monarchs5. On the other hand, Sir Henry listened with natural delight to the noble sentiments uttered by a being so beloved as his daughter. His own parts were rather steady than brilliant; and he had that species of imagination which is not easily excited without the action of another, as the electrical globe only scintillates6 when rubbed against its cushion. He was well pleased, therefore, when Kerneguy pursued the conversation, by observing that Mistress Alice Lee had not explained how the same good fairy that conferred moral qualities, could not also remove corporeal7 blemishes8.
“You mistake, sir,” said Alice. “I confer nothing. I do but attempt to paint our King such as I hope he is — such as I am sure he may be, should he himself desire to be so. The same general report which speaks of his countenance9 as unprepossessing, describes his talents as being of the first order. He has, therefore, the means of arriving at excellence10, should he cultivate them sedulously11 and employ them usefully — should he rule his passions and be guided by his understanding. Every good man cannot be wise; but it is in the power of every wise man, if he pleases, to be as eminent13 for virtue14 as for talent.”
Young Kerneguy rose briskly, and took a turn through the room; and ere the knight15 could make any observation on the singular vivacity16 in which he had indulged, he threw himself again into his chair, and said, in rather an altered tone of voice —“It seems, then, Mistress Alice Lee, that the good friends who have described this poor King to you, have been as unfavourable in their account of his morals as of his person?”
“The truth must be better known to you, sir,” said Alice, “than it can be to me. Some rumours18 there have been which accuse him of a license19, which, whatever allowance flatterers make for it, does not, to say the least, become the son of the Martyr20 — I shall be happy to have these contradicted on good authority.”
“I am surprised at your folly,” said Sir Henry Lee, “in hinting at such things, Alice; a pack of scandal, invented by the rascals22 who have usurped23 the government — a thing devised by the enemy.”
“Nay24, sir,” said Kerneguy, laughing, “we must not let our zeal25 charge the enemy with more scandal than they actually deserve. Mistress Alice has put the question to me. I can only answer, that no one can be more devotedly27 attached to the King than I myself — that I am very partial to his merits and blind to his defects; — and that, in short, I would be the last man in the world to give up his cause where it was tenable. Nevertheless, I must confess, that if all his grandfather of Navarre’s morals have not descended28 to him, this poor King has somehow inherited a share of the specks29 that were thought to dim the lustre30 of that great Prince — that Charles is a little soft-hearted, or so, where beauty is concerned. — Do not blame him too severely31, pretty Mistress Alice; when a man’s hard fate has driven him among thorns, it were surely hard to prevent him from trifling32 with the few roses he may find among them?”
Alice, who probably thought the conversation had gone far enough, rose while Master Kerneguy was speaking, and was leaving the room before he had finished, without apparently33 hearing the interrogation with which he concluded. Her father approved of her departure, not thinking the turn which Kerneguy had given to the discourse34 altogether fit for her presence; and, desirous civilly to break off the conversation, “I see,” he said, “this is about the time, when, as Will says, the household affairs will call my daughter hence; I will therefore challenge you, young gentleman, to stretch your limbs in a little exercise with me, either at single rapier, or rapier and poniard, back-sword, spadroon, or your national weapons of broad-sword and target; for all or any of which I think we shall find implements35 in the hall.”
It would be too high a distinction, Master Kerneguy said, for a poor page to be permitted to try a passage of arms with a knight so renowned36 as Sir Henry Lee, and he hoped to enjoy so great an honour before he left Woodstock; but at the present moment his lameness37 continued to give him so much pain, that he should shame himself in the attempt.
Sir Henry then offered to read him a play of Shakspeare, and for this purpose turned up King Richard II. But hardly had he commenced with
“Old John of Gaunt, time-honored Lancaster,”
when the young gentleman was seized with such an incontrollable fit of the cramp38 as could only be relieved by immediate39 exercise. He therefore begged permission to be allowed to saunter abroad for a little while, if Sir Henry Lee considered he might venture without danger.
“I can answer for the two or three of our people that are still left about the place,” said Sir Henry; “and I know my son has disposed them so as to be constantly on the watch. If you hear the bell toll40 at the Lodge41, I advise you to come straight home by the way of the King’s Oak, which you see in yonder glade42 towering above the rest of the trees. We will have some one stationed there to introduce you secretly into the house.”
The page listened to these cautions with the impatience43 of a schoolboy, who, desirous of enjoying his holiday, hears without marking the advice of tutor or parent, about taking care not to catch cold, and so forth45.
The absence of Alice Lee had removed all which had rendered the interior of the Lodge agreeable, and the mercurial46 young page fled with precipitation from the exercise and amusement which Sir Henry had proposed. He girded on his rapier, and threw his cloak, or rather that which belonged to his borrowed suit, about him, bringing up the lower part so as to muffle47 the face and show only the eyes over it, which was a common way of wearing them in those days, both in streets, in the country, and in public places, when men had a mind to be private, and to avoid interruption from salutations and greetings in the market-place. He hurried across the open space which divided the front of the Lodge from the wood, with the haste of a bird, escaped from the cage, which, though joyful48 at its liberation, is at the same time sensible of its need of protection and shelter. The wood seemed to afford these to the human fugitive49, as it might have done to the bird in question.
When under the shadow of the branches, and within the verge50 of the forest, covered from observation, yet with the power of surveying the front of the Lodge, and all the open ground before it, the supposed Louis Kerneguy meditated51 on his escape.
“What an infliction52 — to fence with a gouty old man, who knows not, I dare say, a trick of the sword which was not familiar in the days of old Vincent Saviolo! or, as a change of misery54, to hear him read one of those wildernesses55 of scenes which the English call a play, from prologue56 to epilogue — from Enter the first to the final Exeunt omnes — an unparalleled horror — a penance57 which would have made a dungeon58 darker, and added dullness even to Woodstock!”
Here he stopped and looked around, then continued his meditations59 —“So, then, it was here that the gay old Norman secluded60 his pretty mistress — I warrant, without having seen her, that Rosamond Clifford was never half so handsome as that lovely Alice Lee. And what a soul there is in the girl’s eye! — with what abandonment of all respects, save that expressing the interest of the moment, she poured forth her tide of enthusiasm! Were I to be long here, in spite of prudence61, and half-a-dozen very venerable obstacles beside, I should be tempted62 to try to reconcile her to the indifferent visage of this same hard-favoured Prince. — Hard favoured? — it is a kind of treason for one who pretends to so much loyalty63, to say so of the King’s features, and in my mind deserves punishment. — Ah, pretty Mistress Alice! many a Mistress Alice before you has made dreadful exclamations64 on the irregularities of mankind, and the wickedness of the age, and ended by being glad to look out for apologies for their own share in them. But then her father — the stout65 old cavalier — my father’s old friend — should such a thing befall, it would break his heart. — Break a pudding’s-end — he has more sense. If I give his grandson a title to quarter the arms of England, what matter if a bar sinister66 is drawn67 across them? — Pshaw! far from an abatement68, it is a point of addition — the heralds69 in their next visitation will place him higher in the roll for it. Then, if he did wince70 a little at first, does not the old traitor71 deserve it; — first, for his disloyal intention of punching mine anointed body black and blue with his vile72 foils — and secondly73, his atrocious complot with Will Shakspeare, a fellow as much out of date as himself, to read me to death with five acts of a historical play, or chronicle, ‘being the piteous Life and Death of Richard the Second?’ Odds-fish, my own life is piteous enough, as I think; and my death may match it, for aught I see coming yet. Ah, but then the brother — my friend — my guide — my guard — So far as this little proposed intrigue74 concerns him, such practising would be thought not quite fair. But your bouncing, swaggering, revengeful brothers exist only on the theatre. Your dire75 revenge, with which a brother persecuted76 a poor fellow who had seduced77 his sister, or been seduced by her, as the case might be, as relentlessly78 as if he had trodden on his toes without making an apology, is entirely79 out of fashion, since Dorset killed the Lord Bruce many a long year since. Pshaw! when a King is the offender80, the bravest man sacrifices nothing by pocketing a little wrong which he cannot personally resent. And in France, there is not a noble house, where each individual would not cock his hat an inch higher, if they could boast of such a left-handed alliance with the Grand Monarque.”
Such were the thoughts which rushed through the mind of Charles, at his first quitting the Lodge of Woodstock, and plunging81 into the forest that surrounded it. His profligate82 logic83, however, was not the result of his natural disposition84, nor received without scruple85 by his sound understanding. It was a train of reasoning which he had been led to adopt from his too close intimacy86 with the witty87 and profligate youth of quality by whom he had been surrounded. It arose from the evil communication with Villiers, Wilmot, Sedley, and others, whose genius was destined88 to corrupt89 that age, and the Monarch4 on whom its character afterwards came so much to depend. Such men, bred amidst the license of civil war, and without experiencing that curb90 which in ordinary times the authority of parents and relations imposes upon the headlong passions of youth, were practised in every species of vice44, and could recommend it as well by precept91 as by example, turning into pitiless ridicule92 all those nobler feelings which withhold93 men from gratifying lawless passion. The events of the King’s life had also favoured his reception of this Epicurean doctrine94. He saw himself, with the highest claims to sympathy and assistance, coldly treated by the Courts which he visited, rather as a permitted supplicant95, than an exiled Monarch. He beheld96 his own rights and claims treated with scorn and indifference97; and, in the same proportion, he was reconciled to the hard-hearted and selfish course of dissipation, which promised him immediate indulgence. If this was obtained at the expense of the happiness of others, should he of all men be scrupulous98 upon the subject, since he treated others only as the world treated him?
But although the foundations of this unhappy system had been laid, the Prince was not at this early period so fully12 devoted26 to it as he was found to have become, when a door was unexpectedly opened for his restoration. On the contrary, though the train of gay reasoning which we have above stated, as if it had found vent21 in uttered language, did certainly arise in his mind, as that which would have been suggested by his favourite counsellors on such occasions, he recollected99 that what might be passed over as a peccadillo100 in France or the Netherlands, or turned into a diverting novel or pasquinade by the wits of his own wandering Court, was likely to have the aspect of horrid101 ingratitude102 and infamous103 treachery among the English gentry104, and would inflict53 a deep, perhaps an incurable105 wound upon his interests, among the more aged106 and respectable part of his adherents107. Then it occurred to him — for his own interest did not escape him, even in this mode of considering the subject — that he was in the power of the Lees, father and son, who were always understood to be at least sufficiently108 punctilious109 on the score of honour; and if they should suspect such an affront110 as his imagination had conceived, they could be at no loss to find means of the most ample revenge, either by their own hands, or by those of the ruling faction111.
“The risk of re-opening the fatal window at Whitehall, and renewing the tragedy of the Man in the Mask, were a worse penalty,” was his final reflection, “than the old stool of the Scottish penance; and pretty though Alice Lee is, I cannot afford to intrigue at such a hazard. So, farewell, pretty maiden112! unless, as sometimes has happened, thou hast a humour to throw thyself at thy King’s feet, and then I am too magnanimous to refuse thee my protection. Yet, when I think of the pale clay-cold figure of the old man, as he lay last night extended before me, and imagine the fury of Albert Lee raging with impatience, his hand on a sword which only his loyalty prevents him from plunging into his sovereign’s heart — nay, the picture is too horrible! Charles must for ever change his name to Joseph, even if he were strongly tempted; which may Fortune in mercy prohibit!”
To speak the truth of a prince, more unfortunate in his early companions, and the callousness113 which he acquired by his juvenile114 adventures and irregular mode of life, than in his natural disposition, Charles came the more readily to this wise conclusion, because he was by no means subject to those violent and engrossing115 passions, to gratify which the world has been thought well lost. His amours, like many of the present day, were rather matters of habit and fashion, than of passion and affection: and, in comparing himself in this respect to his grandfather, Henry IV., he did neither his ancestor nor himself perfect justice. He was, to parody116 the words of a bard117, himself actuated by the stormy passions which an intriguer118 often only simulates —
None of those who loved so kindly119,
None of those who loved so blindly.
An amour was with him a matter of amusement, a regular consequence, as it seemed to him, of the ordinary course of things in society. He was not at the trouble to practise seductive arts, because he had seldom found occasion to make use of them; his high rank, and the profligacy120 of part of the female society with which he had mingled121, rendering122 them unnecessary. Added to this, he had, for the same reason, seldom been crossed by the obstinate123 interference of relations, or even of husbands, who had generally seemed not unwilling124 to suffer such matters to take their course.
So that, notwithstanding his total looseness of principle, and systematic125 disbelief in the virtue of women, and the honour of men, as connected with the character of their female relatives, Charles was not a person to have studiously introduced disgrace into a family, where a conquest might have been violently disputed, attained126 with difficulty, and accompanied with general distress127, not to mention the excitation of all fiercer passions against the author of the scandal.
But the danger of the King’s society consisted in his being much of an unbeliever in the existence of such cases as were likely to be embittered128 by remorse129 on the part of the principal victim, or rendered perilous130 by the violent resentment131 of her connexions or relatives. He had even already found such things treated on the continent as matters of ordinary occurrence, subject, in all cases where a man of high influence was concerned, to an easy arrangement; and he was really, generally speaking, sceptical on the subject of severe virtue in either sex, and apt to consider it as a veil assumed by prudery in women, and hypocrisy132 in men, to extort133 a higher reward for their compliance134.
While we are discussing the character of his disposition to gallantry, the Wanderer was conducted, by the walk he had chosen, through several whimsical turns, until at last it brought him under the windows of Victor Lee’s apartment, where he descried135 Alice watering and arranging some flowers placed on the oriel window, which was easily accessible by daylight, although at night he had found it a dangerous attempt to scale it. But not Alice only, her father also showed himself near the window, and beckoned136 him up. The family party seemed now more promising137 than before, and the fugitive Prince was weary of playing battledore and shuttlecock with his conscience, and much disposed to let matters go as chance should determine.
He climbed lightly up the broken ascent138, and was readily welcomed by the old knight, who held activity in high honour. Alice also seemed glad to see the lively and interesting young man; and by her presence, and the unaffected mirth with which she enjoyed his sallies, he was animated139 to display those qualities of wit and humour, which nobody possessed140 in a higher degree.
His satire141 delighted the old gentleman, who laughed till his eyes ran over as he heard the youth, whose claims to his respect he little dreamed of, amusing him with successive imitations of the Scottish Presbyterian clergymen, of the proud and poor Hidalgo of the North, of the fierce and over-weening pride and Celtic dialect of the mountain chief, of the slow and more pedantic142 Lowlander, with all of which his residence in Scotland had made him familiar. Alice also laughed, and applauded, amused herself, and delighted to see that her father was so; and the whole party were in the highest glee, when Albert Lee entered, eager to find Louis Kerneguy, and to lead him away to a private colloquy143 with Dr. Rochecliffe, whose zeal, assiduity, and wonderful possession of information, had constituted him their master-pilot in those difficult times.
It is unnecessary to introduce the reader to the minute particulars of their conference. The information obtained was so far favourable17, that the enemy seemed to have had no intelligence of the King’s route towards the south, and remained persuaded that he had made his escape from Bristol, as had been reported, and as had indeed been proposed; but the master of the vessel144 prepared for the King’s passage had taken the alarm, and sailed without his royal freight. His departure, however, and the suspicion of the service in which he was engaged, served to make the belief general, that the King had gone off along with him.
But though this was cheering, the Doctor had more unpleasant tidings from the sea-coast, alleging145 great difficulties in securing a vessel, to which it might be fit to commit a charge so precious; and, above all, requesting his Majesty146 might on no account venture to approach the shore, until he should receive advice that all the previous arrangements had been completely settled.
No one was able to suggest a safer place of residence than that which he at present occupied. Colonel Everard was deemed certainly not personally unfriendly to the King; and Cromwell, as was supposed, reposed147 in Everard an unbounded confidence. The interior presented numberless hiding-places, and secret modes of exit, known to no one but the ancient residents of the Lodge — nay, far better to Rochecliffe than to any of them; as, when Rector at the neighbouring town, his prying148 disposition as an antiquary had induced him to make very many researches among the old ruins — the results of which he was believed, in some instances, to have kept to himself.
To balance these conveniences, it was no doubt true, that the Parliamentary Commissioners149 were still at no great distance, and would be ready to resume their authority upon the first opportunity. But no one supposed such an opportunity was likely to occur; and all believed, as the influence of Cromwell and the army grew more and more predominant, that the disappointed Commissioners would attempt nothing in contradiction to his pleasure, but wait with patience an indemnification in some other quarter for their vacated commissions. Report, through the voice of Master Joseph Tomkins, stated, that they had determined150, in the first place, to retire to Oxford151, and were making preparations accordingly. This promised still farther to insure the security of Woodstock. It was therefore settled, that the King, under the character of Louis Kerneguy, should remain an inmate152 of the Lodge, until a vessel should be procured153 for his escape, at the port which might be esteemed154 the safest and most convenient.
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intimacy
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