In northern customs duty was exprest
To friends departed by their funeral feast;
Though I've consulted Hollingshed and Stow,
I find it very difficult to know,
Who, to refresh the attendants to the grave,
Burnt claret first, or Naples' biscuit gave.
---KING: Art of Cookery.
Ceterum priusquam corpus humo injecta contegatur,
defunctus oratione funebri laudabatur.
--DURAND.
A supply of spirits was here introduced; lights were brought at the same time, and placed upon a long oak table. The party gathering2 round it, ill-humor was speedily dissipated, and even the storm disregarded, in the copious3 libations that ensued. At this juncture4, a loiterer appeared in the hall. His movements were unnoticed by all excepting the sexton, who watched his proceedings6 with some curiosity. The person walked to the window, appearing, so far as could be discovered, to eye the storm with great impatience7. He then paced the hall rapidly backwards8 and forwards, and Peter fancied he could detect sounds of disappointment in his muttered exclamations9. Again he returned to the window, as if to ascertain10 the probable duration of the shower. It was a hopeless endeavor; all was pitch-dark without; the lightning was now only seen at long intervals11, but the rain still audibly descended12 in torrents13. Apparently14 seeing the impossibility of controlling the elements, the person approached the table.
"What think you of the night, Mr. Palmer?" asked the sexton of Jack15, for he was the anxious investigator16 of the weather.
"Don't know--can't say--set in, I think--cursed unlucky--for the funeral, I mean--we shall be drowned if we go."
"And drunk if we stay," rejoined Peter. "But never fear, it will hold up, depend upon it, long before we can start. Where have they put the prisoner?" asked he, with a sudden change of manner.
"I know the room, but can't describe it; it's two or three doors down the lower corridor of the eastern gallery."
"Good. Who are on guard?"
"Titus Tyrconnel and that swivel-eyed quill-driver, Coates."
"Enough."
"Come, come, Master Peter," roared Toft, "let's have another stave. Give us one of your odd snatches. No more corpse17-candles, or that sort of thing. Something lively--something jolly--ha, ha!"
"A good move," shouted Jack. "A lively song from you--lillibullero from a death's-head--ha, ha!"
"My songs are all of a sort," returned Peter; "I am seldom asked to sing a second time. However, you are welcome to the merriest I have." And preparing himself, like certain other accomplished18 vocalists, with a few preliminary hems19 and haws, he struck forth20 the following doleful ditty:
In a churchyard, upon the sward, a coffin there was laid,
And leaning stood, beside the wood, a sexton on his spade.
Grim visages of grinning fiends were at each corner set,
"Ah, welladay!" that sexton gray unto himself did cry,
"Beneath that lid much lieth hid--much awful mysterie.
It is an ancient coffin from the abbey that stood here;
Perchance it holds an abbot's bones, perchance those of a frere.
That coffin old, within the mould, it was my chance to find;
In hope to get at name or date, yet nothing could I see.
Yet never found, beneath the ground, shell strange as that before;
Fantastical in fashion--none fantastical as that."
And saying so, with heavy blow, the lid he shattered wide,
E'en after death had ta'en his breath, to strive and burst his prison.
"Ah, welladay!" that sexton gray unto himself did cry,
"Full well I see how Fate's decree foredoomed this wretch to die;
A living man, a breathing man, within the coffin thrust,
Alack! alack! the agony ere he returned to dust!"
A vision drear did then appear unto that sexton's eyes;
Like that poor wight before him straight he in a coffin lies.
He lieth in a trance within that coffin close and fast;
Yet though he sleepeth now, he feels he shall awake at last.
The coffin, then, by reverend men, is borne with footsteps slow,
And for the dead the prayer is said, for the soul that is not flown--
Then all is drowned in hollow sound, the earth is o'er him thrown!
He draweth breath--he wakes from death to life more horrible;
To agony! such agony! no living tongue may tell.
Die! die he must, that wretched one! he struggles--strives in vain;
"If this be dream, yet doth it seem most dreadful so to die.
But nail me not in coffin fast--no grave will I dig more."
It was not difficult to discover the effect produced by this song, in the lengthened60 faces of the greater part of the audience. Jack Palmer, however, laughed loud and long.
"Bravo, bravo!" cried he; "that suits my humor exactly. I can't abide61 the thoughts of a coffin. No deal box for me."
"A gibbet might, perhaps, serve your turn as well," muttered the sexton; adding aloud, "I am now entitled to call upon you;--a song!--a song!"
"Ay, a song, Mr. Palmer, a song!" reiterated62 the hinds63. "Yours will be the right kind of thing."
"Say no more," replied Jack. "I'll give you a chant composed upon Dick Turpin, the highwayman. It's no great shakes, to be sure, but it's the best I have." And, with a knowing wink64 at the sexton, he commenced, in the true nasal whine65, the following strain:
ONE FOOT IN THE STIRRUP
OR TURPIN'S FIRST FLING
Cum esset proposita fuga Turpi(n)s.--CICERO.
Oh! give me a seat in my saddle once more,
And these bloodhounds shall find that the chase is not o'er!"
Thus muttered Dick Turpin, who found, while he slept,
Hilloah!
How Dick had been captured is readily told,
The pursuit had been hot, though the night had been cold,
But in vain was his caution--in vain did his steed,
Hilloah!
"Zounds! gem'men!" cried Turpin, "you've found me at fault,
And the highflying highwayman's come to a halt;
You have turned up a trump--for I weigh well my weight,--
And the forty is yours, though the halter's my fate.
Well, come on't what will, you shall own when all's past,
That Dick Turpin, the Dauntless, was game to the last.
But, before we go further, I'll hold you a bet,
That one foot in my stirrup you won't let me set.
Hilloah!
A hundred to one is the odds you command;
Here's a handful of goldfinches ready to fly!
May I venture a foot in my stirrup to try?"
At his courser, and motioned her slyly askance:--
You might tell by the singular toss of her head,
Hilloah!
And his error at starting as yet unretrieved;
But when from his pocket the shiners he drew,
And offered to "make up the hundred to two,"
There were havers in plenty, and each whispered each,
"Let the fool act his folly--the stirrup of Bess!
He has put his foot in it already, we guess!"
Hilloah!
Bess was brought to her master--Dick steadfastly84 gazed
At the eye of his mare, then his foot quick upraised;
His toe touched the stirrup, his hand grasped the rein--
He was safe on the back of his courser again!
Of Black Bess, as she answered his cry "Hark-away!"
My foot's in the stirrup and catch me who can!"
Hilloah!
And the old woods re-echoed the Philistines' shout!
But the course of Dick Turpin was swift as Heaven's fire.
Whipping, spurring, and straining would nothing avail,
"My foot's in the stirrup!"--thus rang his last cry;
Hilloah!
Uproarious applause followed Jack's song, when the joviality96 of the mourners was interrupted by a summons to attend in the state-room. Silence was at once completely restored; and, in the best order they could assume, they followed their leader, Peter Bradley. Jack Palmer was amongst the last to enter, and remained a not incurious spectator of a by no means common scene.
Preparations had been made to give due solemnity to the ceremonial. The leaden coffin was fastened down, and enclosed in an outer case of oak, upon the lid of which stood a richly-chased massive silver flagon, filled with burnt claret, called the grace-cup. All the lights were removed, save two lofty wax flambeaux, which were placed to the back, and threw a lurid97 glare upon the group immediately about the body, consisting of Ranulph Rookwood and some other friends of the deceased. Dr. Small stood in front of the bier; and, under the directions of Peter Bradley, the tenantry and household were formed into a wide half-moon across the chamber98. There was a hush99 of expectation, as Dr. Small looked gravely round; and even Jack Palmer, who was as little likely as any man to yield to an impression of the kind, felt himself moved by the scene.
The very orthodox Small, as is well known to our readers, held everything savoring100 of the superstitions101 of the Scarlet102 Woman in supreme103 abomination; and, entertaining such opinions, it can scarcely be supposed that a funeral oration1 would find much favor in his eyes, accompanied, as it was, with the accessories of censer, candle, and cup; all evidently derived104 from that period when, under the three-crowned pontiff's sway, the shaven priest pronounced his benediction105 o'er the dead, and released the penitent's soul from purgatorial106 flames, while he heavily mulcted the price of his redemption from the possessions of his successor. Small resented the idea of treading in such steps, as an insult to himself and his cloth. Was he, the intolerant of Papistry, to tolerate this? Was he, who could not endure the odor of Catholicism, to have his nostrils107 thus polluted--his garments thus defiled by actual contact with it? It was not to be thought of: and he had formally signified his declination to Mr. Coates, when a little conversation with that gentleman, and certain weighty considerations therein held forth--the advowson of the church of Rookwood residing with the family--and represented by him, as well as the placing in juxtaposition108 of penalties to be incurred109 by refusal, that the scruples110 of Small gave way; and, with the best grace he could muster111, very reluctantly promised compliance112.
With these feelings, it will be readily conceived that the doctor was not in the best possible frame of mind for the delivery of his exhortation113. His spirit had been ruffled114 by a variety of petty annoyances115, amongst the greatest of which was the condition to which the good cheer had reduced his clerk, Zachariah Trundletext, whose reeling eye, pendulous116 position, and open mouth proclaimed him absolutely incapable117 of office. Zachariah was, in consequence, dismissed, and Small commenced his discourse118 unsupported. But as our recording119 it would not probably conduce to the amusement of our readers, whatever it might to their edification, we shall pass it over with very brief mention. Suffice it to say, that the oration was so thickly interstrewn with lengthy120 quotations121 from the fathers,--Chrysostomus, Hieronymus, Ambrosius, Basilius, Bernardus, and the rest, with whose recondite122 Latinity, notwithstanding the clashing of their opinions with his own, the doctor was intimately acquainted, and which he moreover delighted to quote,--that his auditors123 were absolutely mystified and perplexed124, and probably not without design. Countenances125 of such amazement126 were turned towards him, that Small, who had a keen sense of the ludicrous, could scarcely forbear smiling as he proceeded; and if we could suspect so grave a personage of waggery, we should almost think that, by way of retaliation127, he had palmed some abstruse128, monkish129 epicedium upon his astounded130 auditors.
The oration concluded, biscuits and confectionery were, according to old observance, handed to such of the tenantry as chose to partake of them. The serving of the grace-cup, which ought to have formed part of the duties of Zachariah, had he been capable of office, fell to the share of the sexton. The bowl was kissed, first by Ranulph, with lips that trembled with emotion, and afterward131 by his surrounding friends; but no drop was tasted--a circumstance which did not escape Peter's observation. Proceeding5 to the tenantry, the first in order happened to be Farmer Toft. Peter presented the cup, and as Toft was about to drain a deep draught132 of the wine, Peter whispered in his ear, "Take my advice for once, Friend Toft, and don't let a bubble of the liquid pass your lips. For every drop of the wine you drain, Sir Piers133 will have one sin the less, and you a load the heavier on your conscience. Didst never hear of sin-swallowing? For what else was this custom adopted? Seest thou not the cup's brim hath not yet been moistened? Well, as you will--ha, ha!" And the sexton passed onwards.
His work being nearly completed, he looked around for Jack Palmer, whom he had remarked during the oration, but could nowhere discover him. Peter was about to place the flagon, now almost drained of its contents, upon its former resting-place, when Small took it from his hands.
"In poculi fundo residuum non relinque, admonisheth Pythagoras," said he, returning the empty cup to the sexton.
"My task here is ended," muttered Peter, "but not elsewhere. Foul134 weather or fine, thunder or rain, I must to the church."
Bequeathing his final instructions to certain of the household who were to form part of the procession, in case it set out, he opened the hall door, and, the pelting135 shower dashing heavily in his face, took his way up the avenue, screaming, as he strode along, the following congenial rhymes:
EPHIALTES
I ride alone--I ride by night
Through the moonless air on a courser white!
Over the dreaming earth I fly,
Here and there--at my fantasy!
My locks are frore, and my bones ice cold.
The ban-dog moan, and the screech-owl stare.
Vainly for pity the wretch may sue--
To his couch I flit--
On his breast I sit!
Astride! astride! astride!
And one charm alone
--A hollow stone!--[23]
Can scare me from his side!
A thousand antic shapes I take;
To flee!--but his feet to the ground are nailed.
The goatherd dreams of his mountain-tops,
And, dizzily reeling, downward drops.
The murderer feels at his throat a knife,
Thus sinful man have I power to fray,
But ever the couch of purity,
With shuddering155 glance, I hurry by.
Then mount! away!
To horse! I say,
To horse! astride! astride!
The fire-drake shoots--
The screech-owl hoots--
[Footnote 23: In reference to this imaginary charm, Sir Thomas Browne observes, in his "Vulgar Errors." "What natural effects can reasonably be expected, when, to prevent the Ephialtes, or Nightmare, we hang a hollow stone in our stables?" Grose also states, "that a stone with a hole in it, hung at the bed's head, will prevent the nightmare, and is therefore called a hag-stone." The belief in this charm still lingers in some districts, and maintains, like the horse-shoe affixed157 to the barn-door, a feeble stand against the superstition-destroying "march of intellect."
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