Concert, sir! we have musicians, too, among us. True,
merry beggars, indeed, that, being within the reach of the lash1 for
singing libellous songs at London, were fain to fly into one cover,
and here they sing all our poets' ditties. They can sing anything,
most tunably, sir, but psalms3. What they may do hereafter, under a
triple tree, is much expected; but they live very civilly and
genteelly among us.
Spring.
But what is here--that solemn old fellow, that neither
speaks of himself, or any for him?
Beggar.
O, sir, the rarest man of all: he is a prophet. See how he
holds up his prognosticating nose. He is divining now.
Spring.
How, a prophet?
Beggar.
Yes, sir; a cunning man, and a fortune-teller; a very
ancient stroller all the world over, and has travelled
with gipsies and is a patrico.
---The Merry Beggars.
In consequence of some few words which the sexton let fall in the presence of the attendants, during breakfast, more perhaps by design than accident, it was speedily rumored6 throughout the camp that the redoubted Richard Turpin was for the time its inmate8. This intelligence produced some such sensation as is experienced by the inhabitants of a petty town on the sudden arrival of a prince of the blood, a commander-in-chief, or other illustrious and distinguished9 personage, whose fame has been vaunted abroad amongst his fellowmen by Rumor7, "and her thousand tongues;" and who, like our highwayman, has rendered himself sufficiently10 notorious to be an object of admiration11 and emulation12 amongst his contemporaries.
All started up at the news. The upright man, the chief of the crew, arose from his chair, donned his gown of state, a very ancient brocade dressing-gown, filched13, most probably, from the wardrobe of some strolling player, grasped his baton14 of office, a stout15 oaken truncheon, and sallied forth17. The ruffler, who found his representative in a very magnificently equipped, and by no means ill-favored knave18, whose chin was decorated with a beard as lengthy19 and as black as Sultan Mahmoud's, together with the dexterous20 hooker, issued forth from the hovel which they termed their boozing ken16, eager to catch a glimpse of the prince of the high-tobygloaks. The limping palliard tore the bandages from his mock wounds, shouldered his crutch21, and trudged22 hastily after them. The whip-jack25 unbuckled his strap26, threw away his timber leg, and "leapt exulting27, like the bounding roe28." "With such a sail in sight," he said, "he must heave to, like the rest." The dummerar, whose tongue had been cut out by the Algerines, suddenly found the use of it, and made the welkin ring with his shouts. Wonderful were the miracles Dick's advent29 wrought30. The lame31 became suddenly active, the blind saw, the dumb spoke32; nay33, if truth must be told, absolutely gave utterance34 to "most vernacular35 execrations." Morts, autem morts, walking morts, dells, doxies, kinching morts, and their coes, with all the shades and grades of the Canting Crew, were assembled. There were, to use the words of Brome--
----Stark, errant, downright beggars. Ay,
Without equivocation37, statute39 beggars,
Couchant and passant, guardant, rampant40 beggars;
Current and vagrant41, stockant, whippant beggars![25]
[Footnote 25: The Merry Beggars.]
Each sunburnt varlet started from his shed; each dusky dame42, with her brown, half-naked urchins43, followed at his heels; each "ripe young maiden45, with the glossy46 eye," lingered but to sleek47 her raven48 tresses, and to arrange her straw bonnet49, and then overtook the others; each wrinkled beldame hobbled as quickly after as her stiffened50 joints51 would permit; while the ancient patrico, the priest of the crew--who joined the couples together by the hedge-side, "with the nice custom of dead horse between"[26]--brought up the rear; all bent53 on one grand object, that of having a peep at the "foremost man of all this prigging world!"
[Footnote 26: The parties to be wedded54 find out a dead horse, or any other beast, and standing55 one on the one side, and the other on the other, the patrico bids them live together till death do them part; and so shaking hands, the wedding dinner is kept at the next alehouse they stumble into, where the union is nothing but knocking of cannes, and the sauce, none but drunken brawles.--DEKKAR.]
Dick Turpin, at the period of which we treat, was in the zenith of his reputation. His deeds were full blown; his exploits were in every man's mouth; and a heavy price was set upon his head. That he should show himself thus openly, where he might be so easily betrayed, excited no little surprise among the craftiest56 of the crew, and augured57 an excess of temerity58 on his part. Rash daring was the main feature of Turpin's character. Like our great Nelson, he knew fear only by name; and when he thus trusted himself in the hands of strangers, confident in himself and in his own resources, he felt perfectly61 easy as to the result. He relied also in the continuance of his good fortune, which had as yet never deserted62 him. Possessed63 of the belief that his hour was not yet come, he cared little or nothing for any risk he might incur64; and though he might, undoubtedly65, have some presentiment66 of the probable termination of his career, he never suffered it to militate against his present enjoyment67, which proved that he was no despicable philosopher.
Turpin was the ultimus Romanorum, the last of a race, which--we were almost about to say we regret--is now altogether extinct. Several successors he had, it is true, but no name worthy69 to be recorded after his own. With him expired the chivalrous70 spirit which animated71 successively the bosoms72 of so many knights74 of the road; with him died away that passionate75 love of enterprise, that high spirit of devotion to the fair sex, which was first breathed upon the highway by the gay, gallant76 Claude Du-Val, the Bayard of the road--Le filou sans peur et sans reproche--but which was extinguished at last by the cord that tied the heroic Turpin to the remorseless tree. It were a subject well worthy of inquiry77, to trace this decline and fall of the empire of the tobymen to its remoter causes; to ascertain78 the why and the wherefore, that with so many half-pay captains; so many poor curates; so many lieutenants79, of both services, without hopes of promotion81; so many penny-a-liners, and fashionable novelists; so many damned dramatists, and damning critics; so many Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviewers; so many detrimental82 brothers, and younger sons; when there are horses to be hired, pistols to be borrowed, purses to be taken, and mails are as plentiful83 as partridges--it were worth serious investigation84, we repeat, to ascertain why, with the best material imaginable for a new race of highwaymen, we have none, not even an amateur. Why do not some of these choice spirits quit the salons85 of Pall-Mall, and take to the road? the air of the heath is more bracing86 and wholesome87, we should conceive, than that of any "hell" whatever, and the chances of success incomparably greater. We throw out this hint, without a doubt of seeing it followed up. Probably the solution of our inquiry may be, that the supply is greater than the demand; that, in the present state of things, embryo88 highwaymen may be more abundant than purses; and then, have we not the horse-patrol? With such an admirably-organized system of conservation, it is vain to anticipate a change. The highwaymen, we fear, like their Irish brothers, the Rapparees, went out with the Tories. They were averse89 to reform, and eschewed90 emancipation91.
Lest any one should think we have overrated the pleasures of the highwayman's existence, they shall hear what "the right villainous" Jack Hall, a celebrated92 tobyman of his day, has got to say on the subject. "His life--the highwayman's--has, generally, the most mirth and the least care in it of any man's breathing, and all he deals for is clear profit: he has that point of good conscience, that he always sells as he buys, a good pennyworth, which is something rare, since he trades with so small a stock. The fence[27] and he are like the devil and the doctor, they live by one another; and, like traitors93, 'tis best to keep each other's counsel. He has this point of honesty, that he never robs the house he frequents"--Turpin had the same scruples94 respecting the Hall of Rookwood in Sir Piers95's lifetime--; "and perhaps pays his debts better than some others, for he holds it below the dignity of his employment to commit so ungenteel a crime as insolvency96, and loves to pay nobly. He has another quality, not much amiss, that he takes no more than he has occasion for"--Jack, we think, was a little mistaken here--; "which he verifies this way: he craves97 no more while that lasts. He is a less nuisance in a commonwealth99 than a miser100, because the money he engrosses101 all circulates again, which the other hoards102 as though 'twere only to be found again at the day of judgment103. He is the tithe-pig of his family, which the gallows104, instead of the parson, claims as its due. He has reason enough to be bold in his undertakings105, for, though all the world threaten him, he stands in fear of but one man in it, and that's the hangman; and with him, too, he is generally in fee: however, I cannot affirm he is so valiant106 that he dares look any man in the face, for in that point he is now and then, a little modest. Newgate may be said to be his country-house, where he frequently lives so many months in the year; and he is not so much concerned to be carried thither107 for a small matter, if 'twere only for the benefit of renewing his acquaintance there. He holds a petit larceny108 as light as a nun109 does auricular confession110, though the priest has a more compassionate111 character than the hangman. Every man in this community is esteemed112 according to his particular quality, of which there are several degrees, though it is contrary often to public government; for here a man shall be valued purely113 for his merit, and rise by it too, though it be but to a halter, in which there is a great deal of glory in dying like a hero, and making a decent figure in the cart to the last two staves of the fifty-first psalm4."[28]
[Footnote 27: Receiver.]
[Footnote 28: Memoirs114, of the right villainous John Hall, the famous, and notorious Robber, penned from his Mouth some Time before his Death, 1708.]
This, we repeat, is the plain statement of a practical man, and again we throw out the hint for adoption115. All we regret is, that we are now degenerated116 from the grand tobyman to the cracksman and the sneak117, about whom there are no redeeming118 features. How much lower the next generation of thieves will dive it boots not to conjecture119:
AEtas parentum pejor avis tulit,
Nos nequiores; mox daturos,
Progeniem vitiosiorem.
"Cervantes laughed Spain's chivalry120 away," sang Byron; and if Gay did not extinguish the failing flame of our night errantry--unlike the "Robbers" of Schiller, which is said to have inflamed121 the Saxon youth with an irrepressible mania122 for brigandage--, the "Beggar's Opera" helped not to fan the dying fire. That laugh was fatal, as laughs generally are. Macheath gave the highwayman his coup52 de grace.
The last of this race--for we must persist in maintaining that he was the last--, Turpin, like the setting sun, threw up some parting rays of glory, and tinged123 the far highways with a luster124 that may yet be traced like a cloud of dust raised by his horse's retreating heels. Unequalled in the command of his steed, the most singular feat59 that the whole race of the annals of horsemanship has to record, and of which we may have more to say hereafter, was achieved by him. So perfect was his jockeyship, so clever his management of the animal he mounted, so intimately acquainted was he with every cross-road in the neighborhood of the metropolis--a book of which he constructed, and carried constantly about his person--, as well as with many other parts of England, particularly the counties of Chester, York, and Lancaster, that he outstripped125 every pursuer, and baffled all attempts at capture. His reckless daring, his restless rapidity--for so suddenly did he change his ground, and renew his attacks in other quarters, that he seemed to be endowed with ubiquity,--his bravery, his resolution, and, above all, his generosity126, won for him a high reputation amongst his compatriots, and even elicited127 applauses from those upon whom he levied128 his contributions.
Beyond dispute, he ruled as master of the road. His hands were, as yet, unstained with blood; he was ever prompt to check the disposition129 to outrage130, and to prevent, as much as lay in his power, the commission of violence by his associates. Of late, since he had possessed himself of his favorite mare131, Black Bess, his robberies had been perpetrated with a suddenness of succession, and at distances so apparently132 impracticable, that the idea of all having been executed by one man, was rejected as an impossibility; and the only way of reconciling the description of the horse and rider, which tallied133 in each instance, was the supposition that these attacks were performed by confederates similarly mounted and similarly accoutred.
There was, in all this, as much of the "famae sacra fames" as of the "auri;" of the hungering after distinction, as well as of the appetite of gain. Enamored of his vocation38, Turpin delighted to hear himself designated as the Flying Highwayman; and it was with rapturous triumph that he found his single-handed feats134 attributed to a band of marauders. But this state of things could not long endure; his secret was blown; the vigilance of the police was aroused; he was tracked to his haunts; and, after a number of hairbreadth 'scapes, which he only effected by miracle, or by the aid of his wonder-working mare, he reluctantly quitted the heathy hills of Bagshot, the Pampas plains of Hounslow--over which like an archetype of the galloping135 Sir Francis Head, he had so often scoured,--the gorsy commons of Highgate, Hampstead, and Finchley, the marshy136 fields of Battersea, almost all of which he had been known to visit in a single night, and leaving these beaten tracks to the occupation of younger and less practised hands, he bequeathed to them, at the same time, his own reversionary interest in the gibbets thereupon erected137, and betook himself to the country.
After a journey of more or less success, our adventurer found himself at Rookwood, whither he had been invited after a grand field-day by its hospitable138 and by no means inquisitive139 owner. Breach140 of faith and good fellowship formed no part of Turpin's character; he had his lights as well as his shades; and as long as Sir Piers lived, his purse and coffers would have been free from molestation141, except, "so far," Dick said, "as a cog or two of dice142 went. My dice, you know, are longs for odd and even, a bale of bar'd cinque deuces," a pattern of which he always carried with him; beyond this, excepting a take-in at a steeple chase, Rookwood church being the mark, a "do" at a leap, or some such trifle, to which the most scrupulous143 could not raise an objection, Dick was all fair and above-board. But when poor Sir Piers had "put on his wooden surtout," to use Dick's own expressive144 metaphor145, his conscientious146 scruples evaporated into thin air. Lady Rookwood was nothing to him; there was excellent booty to be appropriated--
The wise convey it call.
He began to look about for hands; and having accidentally encountered his old comrades, Rust60 and Wilder, they were let into the business, which was imperfectly accomplished147 in the manner heretofore described.
To return from this digression. When Turpin presented himself at the threshold of the door, on his way to inquire after his mare, to his astonishment148 he found it closely invested. A cheering shout from the tawny149 throng150, succeeded by a general clapping of hands, and attended by a buzzing susurration of applause, such as welcomes the entrance of a popular actor upon the stage, greeted the appearance of the highwayman. At the first sight of the crowd he was a little startled, and involuntarily sought for his pistols. But the demonstrations151 of admiration were too unequivocal to be for a moment mistaken; his hand was drawn152 from his pocket to raise his hat from his brow.
Thunders of applause.
Turpin's external man, we have before said, was singularly prepossessing. It was especially so in the eyes of the sex--fair we certainly cannot say upon the present occasion--, amongst whom not a single dissentient voice was to be heard. All concurred153 in thinking him a fine fellow; could plainly read his high courage in his bearing; his good breeding in his debonnaire deportment; and his manly154 beauty in his extravagant155 red whiskers. Dick saw the effect that he produced. He was at home in a moment. Your true highwayman has ever a passion for effect. This does not desert him at the gallows; it rises superior to death itself, and has been known to influence the manner of his dangling156 from the gibbet! To hear some one cry, "There goes a proper handsome man," saith our previously157 quoted authority, Jack Hall, "somewhat ameliorates the terrible thoughts of the meagre tyrant158 death; and to go in a dirty shirt were enough to save the hangman a labor159, and make a man die with grief and shame at being in that deplorable condition." With a gracious smile of condescension161, like a popular orator--with a look of blarney like that of O'Connell, and of assurance like that of Hume--he surveyed the male portion of the spectators, tipped a knowing wink162 at the prettiest brunettes he could select, and finally cut a sort of fling with his well-booted legs, that brought down another appeal of rapturous applause.
"A rank scamp!"[29] cried the upright man; and this exclamation163, however equivocal it may sound, was intended, on his part, to be highly complimentary164.
"I believe ye," returned the ruffler, stroking his chin--"one may see that he's no half swell165 by the care with which he cultivates the best gifts of nature, his whiskers. He's a rank nib166."[30]
[Footnote 29: A famous highwayman.]
[Footnote 30: A real gentleman.]
"Togged out to the ruffian, no doubt," said the palliard, who was incomparably the shabbiest rascal167 in the corps168. "Though a needy169 mizzler mysel, I likes to see a cove2 vot's vel dressed. Jist twig170 his swell kickseys and pipes;[31] if they ain't the thing, I'm done. Lame Harry171 can't dance better nor he--no, nor Jerry Juniper neither."
"I'm dumb founded," roared the dummerar, "if he can't patter romany[32] as vel as the best on us! He looks like a rum 'un."
"And a rum 'un he be, take my word for it," returned the whip-jack, or sham160 sailor. "Look at his rigging--see how he flashes his sticks[33]--those are the tools to rake a three-decker. He's as clever a craft as I've seen this many a day, or I'm no judge."
[Footnote 31: Breeches and boots.]
[Footnote 32: Gipsy flask172.]
[Footnote 33: How he exposes his pistols.]
The women were equally enchanted--equally eloquent173 in the expression of their admiration.
"What ogles174!" cried a mort.
"What pins!" said an autem mort, or married woman.
"Sharp as needles," said a dark-eyed dell, who had encountered one of the free and frolicsome175 glances which our highwayman distributed so liberally among the petticoats.
It was at this crisis Dick took off his hat. Caesar betrayed his baldness.
"A thousand pities!" cried the men, compassionating176 his thinly covered skull177, and twisting their own ringlets, glossy and luxuriant, though unconscious of Macassar. "A thousand pities that so fine a fellow should have a sconce like a cocoanut!"
"But then his red whiskers," rejoined the women, tired of the uniformity of thick black heads of hair; "what a warmth of coloring they impart to his face; and then only look how beautifully bushy they make his cheeks appear!"
La Fosseuse and the court of the Queen of Navarre were not more smitten179 with the Sieur de Croix's jolly pair of whiskers.
The hawk180's eye of Turpin ranged over the whole assemblage. Amidst that throng of dark faces there was not one familiar to him.
Before him stood the upright man, Zoroaster--so was he called--, a sturdy, stalwart rogue181, whose superior strength and stature--as has not unfrequently been the case in the infancy182 of governments that have risen to more importance than is likely to be the case with that of Lesser183 Egypt--had been the means of his elevation184 to his present dignified185 position. Zoroaster literally186 fought his way upwards187, and had at first to maintain his situation by the strong arm; but he now was enabled to repose188 upon his hard-won laurels189, to smoke "the calumet of peace," and quaff190 his tipple191 with impunity192. For one of gipsy blood, he presented an unusually jovial193, liquor-loving countenance194: his eye was mirthful; his lip moist, as if from oft potations; his cheek mellow195 as an Orleans plum, which fruit, in color and texture196, it mightily197 resembled. Strange to say, also, for one of that lithe198 race, his person was heavy and hebetudinous; the consequence, no doubt, of habitual199 intemperance200. Like Cribb, he waxed obese201 upon the championship. There was a kind of mock state in his carriage, as he placed himself before Turpin, and with his left hand twisted up the tail of his dressing-gown, while the right thrust his truncheon into his hip24, which was infinitely202 diverting to the highwayman.
Turpin's attention, however, was chiefly directed towards his neighbor, the ruffler, in whom he recognized a famous impostor of the day, with whose history he was sufficiently well acquainted to be able at once to identify the individual. We have before stated, that a magnificent coal-black beard decorated the chin of this worthy; but this was not all--his costume was in perfect keeping with his beard, and consisted of a very theatrical203-looking tunic204, upon the breast of which was embroidered205, in golden wire, the Maltese cross; while over his shoulders were thrown the folds of an ample cloak of Tyrian hue206. To his side was girt a long and doughty207 sword, which he termed, in his knightly208 phrase, Excalibur; and upon his profuse209 hair rested a hat as broad in the brim as a Spanish sombrero.
Exaggerated as this description may appear, we can assure our readers that it is not overdrawn210; and that a counterpart of the sketch211 we have given of the ruffler certainly "strutted212 his hour" upon the stage of human life, and that the very ancient and discriminating213 city of Canterbury--to which be all honor--was his theatre of action. His history is so far curious, that it exemplifies, more strongly than a thousand discourses214 could do, how prone215 we are to be governed by appearances, and how easily we may be made the dupes of a plausible216 impostor. Be it remembered, however, that we treat of the eighteenth century, before the march of intellect had commenced; we are much too knowing to be similarly practised upon in these enlightened times. But we will let the knight73 of Malta, for such was the title assumed by the ruffler, tell his own story in his own way hereafter; contenting ourselves with the moral precepts217 we have already deduced from it.
Next to the knight of Malta stood the whip-jack, habited in his sailor gear--striped shirt and dirty canvas trousers; and adjoining him was the palliard, a loathsome218 tatterdemalion, his dress one heap of rags, and his discolored skin one mass of artificial leprosy and imposthumes.
As Turpin's eye shifted from one to another of these figures, he chanced upon an individual who had been long endeavoring to arrest his attention. This personage was completely in the background. All that Dick could discern of him was a brown curly head of hair, carelessly arranged in the modern mode; a handsome, impudent219, sun-freckled face, with one eye closed, and the other occupied by a broken bottle-neck, through which, as a substitute for a lorgnette, the individual reconnoitered him. A cocked hat was placed in a very degagee manner under his arm, and he held an ebony cane221 in his hand, very much in the style of a "fassionable," as the French have it, of the present day. This glimpse was sufficient to satisfy Turpin. He recognized in this whimsical personage an acquaintance.
Jerry Juniper was what the classical Captain Grose would designate a "gentleman with three outs," and, although he was not entirely222 without wit, nor, his associates avouched223, without money, nor, certainly, in his own opinion, had that been asked, without manners; yet was he assuredly without shoes, without stockings, without shirt. This latter deficiency was made up by a voluminous cravat224, tied with proportionately large bows. A jaunty225 pair of yellow breeches, somewhat faded; a waistcoat of silver brocade, richly embroidered, somewhat tarnished226 and lack-lustre227; a murrey-colored velvet228 coat, somewhat chafed229, completed the costume of this beggar Brummell, this mendicant230 macaroni!
Jerry Juniper was a character well known at the time, as a constant frequenter of all races, fairs, regattas, ship-launches, bull-baits, and prize-fights, all of which he attended, and to which he transported himself with an expedition little less remarkable231 than that of Turpin. You met him at Epsom, at Ascot, at Newmarket, at Doncaster, at the Roodee of Chester, at the Curragh of Kildare. The most remote as well as the most adjacent meeting attracted him. The cock-pit was his constant haunt, and in more senses than one was he a leg. No opera-dancer could be more agile232, more nimble; scarcely, indeed, more graceful233, than was Jerry, with his shoeless and stockingless feet; and the manner in which he executed a pirouette, or a pas, before a line of carriages, seldom failed to procure234 him "golden opinions from all sorts of dames235." With the ladies, it must be owned, Jerry was rather upon too easy terms; but then, perhaps, the ladies were upon too easy terms with Jerry; and if a bright-eyed fair one condescended236 to jest with him, what marvel237 if he should sometimes slightly transgress238 the laws of decorum. These aberrations239, however, were trifling240; altogether he was so well known, and knew everybody else so well, that he seldom committed himself; and, singular to say, could on occasions even be serious. In addition to his other faculties241, no one cut a sly joke, or trolled a merry ditty, better than Jerry. His peculiarities242, in short, were on the pleasant side, and he was a general favorite in consequence.
No sooner did Jerry perceive that he was recognized, than, after kissing his hand, with the air of a petit-maitre, to the highwayman, he strove to edge his way through the crowd. All his efforts were fruitless; and, tired of a situation in the rear rank, so inconsistent, he conceived, with his own importance, he had recourse to an expedient243 often practised with success in harlequinades, and not unfrequently in real life, where a flying leap is occasionally taken over our heads. He ran back a few yards to give himself an impetus244, returned, and, placing his hands upon the shoulders of a stalwart vagabond near to him, threw a summerset upon the broad cap of a palliard, who was so jammed in the midst that he could not have stirred to avoid the shock; thence, without pausing, he vaulted246 forwards, and dropped lightly upon the ground in front of Zoroaster, and immediately before the highwayman.
Dick laughed immoderately at Jerry's man[oe]uvre. He shook his old chum cordially by the hand, saying, in a whisper, "What the devil brings you here, Jerry?"
"I might retort, and ask you that question, Captain Turpin," replied Jerry, sotto voce. "It is odd to see me here, certainly--quite out of my element--lost amongst this canaille--this Canting Crew--all the fault of a pair of gipsy eyes, bright as a diamond, dark as a sloe. You comprehend--a little affair, ha! Liable to these things. Bring your ear closer, my boy; be upon your guard--keep a sharp look out--there's a devil of a reward upon your head--I won't answer for all those rascals247."
"Thank you for the hint, Jerry," replied Dick, in the same tone. "I calculated my chances pretty nicely when I came here. But if I should perceive any symptoms of foul248 play--any attempt to snitch or nose, amongst this pack of peddlers--I have a friend or two at hand, who won't be silent upon the occasion. Rest assured I shall have my eye upon the gnarling scoundrels. I won't be sold for nothing."
"Trust you for that," returned Juniper, with a wink. "Stay," added he; "a thought strikes me. I have a scheme in petto which may, perhaps, afford you some fun, and will, at all events, insure your safety during your stay."
"What is it?" asked Dick.
"Just amuse yourself with a flirtation250 for a moment or two with that pretty damsel, who has been casting her ogles at you for the last five minutes without success, while I effect a master-stroke."
And as Turpin, nothing loth, followed his advice, Jerry addressed himself to Zoroaster. After a little conference, accompanied by that worthy and the knight of Malta, the trio stepped forward from the line, and approached Dick, when Juniper, assuming some such attitude as our admirable Jones, the comedian251, is wont252 to display, delivered himself of the following address. Turpin listened with the gravity of one of the distinguished persons alluded253 to, at the commencement of the present chapter, upon their receiving the freedom of the city at the hands of a mayor and corporation. Thus spoke Jerry:
"Highest of High-Tobymen! rummest of rum Padders, and most scampish of Scampsmen! We, in the name of Barbara, our most tawny queen; in the name of Zoroaster, our Upright Man, Dimber Damber, or Olli Campolli, by all which titles his excellency is distinguished; in our own respective names, as High Pads and Low Pads, Rum Gills and Queer Gills, Patricos, Palliards, Priggers, Whip-Jacks, and Jarkmen, from the Arch Rogue to the Needy Mizzler, fully178 sensible of the honor you have conferred upon us in gracing Stop-Hole Abbey with your presence; and conceiving that we can in no way evince our sense of your condescension so entirely as by offering you the freedom of our crew, together with the privileges of an Upright Man,[34] which you may be aware are considerable, and by creating you an honorary member of the Vagrant Club, which we have recently established; and in so doing, we would fain express the sentiments of gratification and pride which we experience in enrolling256 among our members one who has extended the glory of roguery so widely over the land, and who has kicked up such a dust upon the highways of England, as most effectually to blind the natives--one who is in himself a legion--of highwaymen! Awaiting, with respectful deference257, the acquiescence258 of Captain Richard Turpin, we beg to tender him the freedom of our crew."
[Footnote 34: For an account of these, see Grose. They are much too gross to be set down here.]
"Really, gentlemen," said Turpin, who did not exactly see the drift of this harangue259, "you do me a vast deal of honor. I am quite at a loss to conceive how I can possibly have merited so much attention at your hands; and, indeed, I feel myself so unworthy----" Here Dick received an expressive wink from Juniper, and therefore thought it prudent260 to alter his expression. "Could I suppose myself at all deserving of so much distinction," continued the modest speaker, "I should at once accept your very obliging offer; but----"
"None so worthy," said the upright man.
"Can't hear of a refusal," said the knight of Malta.
"Refusal--impossible!" reiterated261 Juniper.
"No; no refusal," exclaimed a chorus of voices. "Dick Turpin must be one of us. He shall be our dimber damber."
"Well, gentlemen, since you are so pressing," replied Turpin, "even so be it. I will be your dimber damber."
"Bravo! bravo!" cried the mob, not "of gentlemen."
"About it, pals262, at once," said the knight of Malta, flourishing Excalibur. "By St. Thomas a Becket, we'll have as fine a scene as I myself ever furnished to the Canterbury lieges."
"About what?" asked Dick.
"Your matriculation," replied Jerry. "There are certain forms to be gone through, with an oath to be taken, merely a trifle. We'll have a jolly booze when all's over. Come bing avast, my merry pals; to the green, to the green: a Turpin! a Turpin! a new brother!"
"A Turpin! a Turpin! a new brother!" echoed the crew.
"I've brought you through," said Jerry, taking advantage of the uproar264 that ensued to whisper to his chum; "none of them will dare to lift a finger against you now. They are all your friends for life."
"Nevertheless," returned Turpin, "I should be glad to know what has become of Bess."
"If it's your prancer265 you are wanting," chirped266 a fluttering creature, whom Turpin recognized as Luke's groom268, Grasshopper269, "I gave her a fresh loaf and a stoup of stingo, as you bade me, and there she be, under yon tree, as quiet as a lamb."
"I see her," replied Turpin; "just tighten270 her girths, Grasshopper, and bring her after me, and thou shalt have wherewithal to chirp267 over thy cups at supper."
Away bounded the elfin dwarf271 to execute his behest.
A loud shout now rent the skies, and presently afterwards was heard the vile255 scraping of a fiddle272, accompanied by the tattoo273 of a drum. Approaching Turpin, a host of gipsies elevated the highwayman upon their shoulders, and in this way he was carried to the centre of the green, where the long oaken table, which had once served the Franciscans for refection, was now destined274 for the stage of the pageant275.
Upon this table three drums were placed; and Turpin was requested to seat himself on the central one. A solemn prelude276, more unearthly than the incantation in the Freyschuetz, was played by the orchestra of the band, conducted by the Paganini of the place, who elicited the most marvellous notes from his shell. A couple of shawms[35] emitted sepulchral277 sounds, while the hollow rolling of a drum broke ever and anon upon the ear. The effect was prodigiously278 fine. During this overture279 the patrico and the upright man had ascended280 the rostrum, each taking his place; the former on the right hand of Turpin, the latter upon his left. Below them stood the knight of Malta, with Excalibur drawn in his hand, and gleaming in the sunshine. On the whole, Dick was amused with what he saw, and with the novel situation in which he found himself placed. Around the table were congregated281 a compact mass of heads; so compact, indeed, that they looked like one creature--an Argus, with each eye upturned upon the highwayman. The idea struck Turpin that the restless mass of parti-colored shreds282 and patches, of vivid hues283 and varied284 tintings, singularly, though accidentally, disposed to produce such an effect, resembled an immense tiger-moth, or it might be a Turkey carpet spread out upon the grass!
[Footnote 35: "The shalm, or shawm, was a wind instrument, like a pipe, with a swelling285 protuberance in the middle."--Earl of Northumberland's Household Book.]
The scene was a joyous286 one. It was a brilliant sunshiny morning. Freshened and purified by the storm of the preceding night, the air breathed a balm upon the nerves and senses of the robber. The wooded hills were glittering in light; the brook287 was flowing swiftly past the edge of the verdant288 slope, glancing like a wreathed snake in the sunshine--its "quiet song" lost in the rude harmony of the mummers, as were the thousand twitterings of the rejoicing birds; the rocks bared their bosoms to the sun, or were buried in deep-cast gloom; the shadows of the pillars and arches of the old walls of the priory were projected afar, while the rose-like ramifications289 of the magnificent marigold window were traced, as if by a pencil, upon the verdant tablet of the sod.
The overture was finished. With the appearance of the principal figures in this strange picture the reader is already familiar. It remains290 only to give him some idea of the patrico. Imagine, then, an old superannuated291 goat, reared upon its hind292 legs, and clad in a white sheet, disposed in folds like those of a simar about its limbs, and you will have some idea of Balthazar, the patrico. This resemblance to the animal before mentioned was rendered the more striking by his huge, hanging, goat-like under lip, his lengthy white beard, and a sort of cap, covering his head, which was ornamented293 with a pair of horns, such as are to be seen in Michael Angelo's tremendous statue of Moses. Balthazar, besides being the patrico of the tribe, was its principal professor of divination294, and had been the long-tried and faithful minister of Barbara Lovel, from whose secret instructions he was supposed to have derived295 much of his magical skill.
Placing a pair of spectacles upon his "prognosticating nose," and unrolling a vellum skin, upon which strange characters were written, Balthazar, turning to Turpin, thus commenced in a solemn voice:
Thou who wouldst our brother be,
Say how we shall enter thee?
Name the name that thou wilt296 bear
Ere our livery thou wear?
"I see no reason why I should alter my designation," replied the noviciate; "but as popes change their titles on their creation, there can be no objection to a scampsman following so excellent an example. Let me be known as the Night Hawk."
"The Night Hawk--good," returned the hierophant, proceeding297 to register the name upon the parchment. "Kneel down," continued he.
After some hesitation298, Turpin complied.
"You must repeat the 'salamon,' or oath of our creed299, after my dictation," said the patrico; and Turpin, signifying his assent300 by a nod, Balthazar propounded301 the following abjuration302:
OATH OF THE CANTING CREW
I, Crank-Cuffin, swear to be
True to this fraternity;
That I will in all obey
Rule and order of the lay.
Never blow the gab245, or squeak303;
Never snitch to bum304 or beak305;
But religiously maintain
Authority of those who reign306
Over Stop-Hole Abbey Green,
Be they tawny king, or queen.
In their cause alone will fight;
Think what they think, wrong or right;
Serve them truly, and no other,
And be faithful to my brother;
Suffer none, from far or near,
With their rights to interfere307;
No strange Abram, ruffler crack,
Hooker of another pack,
Rogue or rascal, frater, maunderer,
Irish toyle, or other wanderer;
No dimber damber, angler, dancer,
Prig of cackler, prig of prancer;
No swigman, swaddler, clapperdudgeon;
Cadge-gloak, curtal, or curmudgeon308;
No whip-jack, palliard, patrico;
No jarkman, be he high or low;
No dummerar, or romany;
No member of "the Family;"
No ballad-basket, bouncing buffer309,
Nor any other, will I suffer;
But stall-off now and for ever,
All outliers whatsoever310:
And as I keep to the foregone,
So may help me Salamon![36]
[Footnote 36: Perhaps the most whimsical laws that were ever prescribed to a gang of thieves were those framed by William Holliday, one of the prigging community, who was hanged in 1695:
Art. I. directs--That none of his company should presume to wear shirts, upon pain of being cashiered.
II.--That none should lie in any other places than stables, empty houses, or other bulks.
III.--That they should eat nothing but what they begged, and that they should give away all the money they got by cleaning boots among one another, for the good of the fraternity.
IV.--That they should neither learn to read nor write, that he may have them the better under command.
V.--That they should appear every morning by nine, on the parade, to receive necessary orders.
VI.--That none should presume to follow the scent311 but such as he ordered on that party.
VII.--That if any one gave them shoes or stockings, they should convert them into money to play.
VIII.--That they should steal nothing they could not come at, for fear of bringing a scandal upon the company.
IX.--That they should cant36 better than the Newgate birds, pick pockets without bungling312, outlie a Quaker, outswear a lord at a gaming-table, and brazen313 out all their villainies beyond an Irishman.]
"So help me Salamon!" repeated Turpin, with emphasis.
"Zoroaster," said the patrico to the upright man, "do thy part of this ceremonial."
Zoroaster obeyed; and, taking Excalibur from the knight of Malta, bestowed314 a hearty315 thwack with the blade upon the shoulders of the kneeling highwayman, assisting him afterwards to arise.
The inauguration316 was complete.
"Well," exclaimed Dick, "I'm glad it's all over. My leg feels a little stiffish. I'm not much given to kneeling. I must dance it off;" saying which, he began to shuffle317 upon the boards. "I tell you what," continued he, "most reverend patrico, that same 'salmon318' of yours has a cursed long tail. I could scarce swallow it all, and it's strange if it don't give me an indigestion. As to you, sage319 Zory, from the dexterity320 with which you flourish your sword, I should say you had practised at court. His majesty321 could scarce do the thing better, when, slapping some fat alderman upon the shoulder, he bids him arise Sir Richard. And now, pals," added he, glancing round, "as I am one of you, let's have a booze together ere I depart, for I don't think my stay will be long in the land of Egypt."
This suggestion of Turpin was so entirely consonant322 to the wishes of the assemblage, that it met with universal approbation323; and upon a sign from Zoroaster, some of his followers324 departed in search of supplies for the carousal325. Zoroaster leaped from the table, and his example was followed by Turpin, and more leisurely326 by the patrico.
It was rather early in the day for a drinking bout68. But the Canting Crew were not remarkably327 particular. The chairs were removed, and the jingling328 of glasses announced the arrival of the preliminaries of the matutine symposion. Poles, canvas, and cords were next brought; and in almost as short a space of time as one scene is substituted for another in a theatrical representation, a tent was erected. Benches, stools, and chairs appeared with equal celerity, and the interior soon presented an appearance like that of a booth at a fair. A keg of brandy was broached329, and the health of the new brother quaffed330 in brimmers.
Our highwayman returned thanks. Zoroaster was in the chair, the knight of Malta acting331 as croupier. A second toast was proposed--the tawny queen. This was drunk with a like enthusiasm, and with a like allowance of the potent332 spirit; but as bumpers334 of brandy are not to be repeated with impunity, it became evident to the president of the board that he must not repeat his toasts quite so expeditiously335. To create a temporary diversion, therefore, he called for a song.
The dulcet336 notes of the fiddle now broke through the clamor; and, in answer to the call, Jerry Juniper volunteered the following:
JERRY JUNIPER'S CHANT
In a box[37] of the stone jug337[38] I was born,
Of a hempen338 widow[39] the kid forlorn.
Fake away,
And my father, as I've heard say,
Fake away.
Was a merchant of capers[40] gay,
Who cut his last fling with great applause,
Nix my doll pals, fake away.[41]
Who cut his last fling with great applause,[42]
To the tune5 of a "hearty choke with caper339 sauce."
Fake away.
The knucks in quod[43] did my schoolmen play,
Fake away,
And put me up to the time of day;
Until at last there was none so knowing,
Nix my doll pals, fake away.
Until at last there was none so knowing,
No such sneaksman[44] or buzgloak[45] going.
Fake away.
Fogles[46] and fawnies[47] soon went their way,
Fake away,
To the spout[48] with the sneezers[49] in grand array.
No dummy340 hunter[50] had forks[51] so fly;
Nix my doll pals, fake away.
No dummy hunter had forks so fly,
No knuckler[52] so deftly341 could fake a cly,[53]
Fake away.
No slour'd hoxter[54] my snipes[55] could stay,
Fake away.
None knap a reader[56] like me in the lay.
Soon then I mounted in swell-street high.
Nix my doll pals, fake away.
Soon then I mounted in swell-street high,
And sported my flashiest toggery[57],
Fake away.
Firmly resolved I would make my hay,
Fake away,
While Mercury's star shed a single ray;
And ne'er was there seen such a dashing prig,[58]
Nix my doll pals, fake away.
And ne'er was there seen such a dashing prig,
With my strummel faked in the newest twig.[59]
Fake away.
With my fawnied famms,[60] and my onions gay,[61]
Fake away;
My thimble of ridge[62], and my driz kemesa[63];
All my togs were so niblike[64] and splash,
Nix my doll pals, fake away.
All my togs were so niblike and splash,
Readily the queer screens I then could smash;[65]
Fake away.
But my nuttiest blowen,[66] one fine day,
Fake away,
To the beaks[67] did her fancy man betray,
And thus was I bowled out at last[68]
Nix my doll pals, fake away.
And thus was I bowled out at last,
And into the jug for a lag was cast;[69]
Fake away.
But I slipped my darbies[70] one morn in May,
Fake away,
And gave to the dubsman[71] a holiday.
And here I am, pals, merry and free,
A regular rollicking romany.[72]
Nix my doll pals, fake away.
FOOTNOTES:
[37] Cell.
[38] Newgate.
[39] A woman whose husband has been hanged.
[40] A dancing-master.
[41] "Nothing, comrades; on, on," supposed to be addressed by a thief to his confederates.
[42] Thus Victor Hugo, in "Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamne," makes an imprisoned342 felon343 sing:
"J'le ferai danser une danse
Ou il n'y a pas de plancher."
[43] Thieves in prison.
[44] Shoplifter.
[45] Pickpocket344.
[46] Handkerchiefs.
[47] Rings.
[48] To the pawnbroker345.
[49] Snuff-boxes.
[50] Pickpocket.
[51] The two forefingers346 used in picking a pocket.
[52] Pickpocket.
[53] Pick a pocket.
[54] No inside coat-pocket; buttoned up.
[55] Scissors.
[56] Steal a pocket-book.
[57] Best-made clothes.
[58] Thief.
[59] With my hair dressed in the first fashion.
[60] With several rings on my hands.
[61] Seals.
[62] Gold watch.
[63] Laced shirt.
[64] Gentlemanlike.
[65] Easily than forged notes could I pass.
[66] Favorite mistress.
[67] Police.
[68] Taken at length.
[69] Cast for transportation.
[70] Fetters347.
[71] Turnkey.
[72] Gipsy.
Much laughter and applause rewarded Jerry's attempt to please; and though the meaning of his chant, even with the aid of the numerous notes appended to it, may not be quite obvious to our readers, we can assure them that it was perfectly intelligible348 to the Canting Crew. Jerry was now entitled to a call; and happening, at the moment, to meet the fine dark eyes of a sentimental349 gipsy, one of that better class of mendicants who wandered about the country with a guitar at his back, his election fell upon him. The youth, without prelude, struck up a
GIPSY SERENADE
Merry maid, merry maid, wilt thou wander with me?
We will roam through the forest, the meadow, and lea;
We will haunt the sunny bowers350, and when day begins to flee,
Our couch shall be the ferny brake, our canopy351 the tree.
Merry maid, merry maid, come and wander with me!
No life like the gipsy's, so joyous and free!
Merry maid, merry maid, though a roving life be ours,
We will laugh away the laughing and quickly fleeting352 hours;
Our hearts are free, as is the free and open sky above,
And we know what tamer souls know not, how lovers ought to love.
Merry maid, merry maid, come and wander with me!
No life like the gipsy's so joyous and free!
Zoroaster now removed the pipe from his upright lips to intimate his intention of proposing a toast.
A universal knocking of knuckles353 by the knucklers[73] was followed by profound silence. The sage spoke:
[Footnote 73: Pickpockets354.]
"The city of Canterbury, pals," said he; "and may it never want a knight of Malta."
The toast was pledged with much laughter, and in many bumpers.
The knight, upon whom all eyes were turned, rose, "with stately bearing and majestic355 motion," to return thanks.
"I return you an infinitude of thanks, brother pals," said he, glancing round the assemblage; and bowing to the president, "and to you, most upright Zory, for the honor you have done me in associating my name with that city. Believe me, I sincerely appreciate the compliment, and echo the sentiment from the bottom of my soul. I trust it never will want a knight of Malta. In return for your consideration, but a poor one you will say, you shall have a ditty, which I composed upon the occasion of my pilgrimage to that city, and which I have thought proper to name after myself."
THE KNIGHT OF MALTA
A Canterbury Tale[74]
Come list to me, and you shall have, without a hem23 or haw, sirs,
A Canterbury pilgrimage, much better than old Chaucer's.
'Tis of a hoax356 I once played off upon that city clever,
The memory of which, I hope, will stick to it for ever.
With my coal-black beard, and purple cloak,
jack-boots, and broad-brimmed castor,
Hey-ho! for the knight of Malta!
To execute my purpose, in the first place, you must know, sirs,
My locks I let hang down my neck--my beard and whiskers grow, sirs;
A purple cloak I next clapped on, a sword lagged to my side, sirs,
And mounted on a charger black, I to the town did ride, sirs.
With my coal-black beard, &c.
Two pages were there by my side, upon two little ponies357,
Decked out in scarlet358 uniform, as spruce as macaronies;
Caparisoned my charger was, as grandly as his master,
And o'er my long and curly locks, I wore a broad-brimmed castor.
With my coal-black beard, &c.
The people all flocked forth, amazed to see a man so hairy,
Oh I such a sight had ne'er before been seen in Canterbury!
My flowing robe, my flowing beard, my horse with flowing mane, sirs!
They stared--the days of chivalry, they thought, were come again, sirs!
With my coal-black beard, &c.
I told them a long rigmarole romance, that did not halt a
Jot359, that they beheld360 in me a real knight of Malta!
Tom a Becket had I sworn I was, that saint and martyr361 hallowed,
I doubt not just as readily the bait they would have swallowed.
With my coal-black beard, &c.
I rode about, and speechified, and everybody gullied,
The tavern-keepers diddled, and the magistracy bullied362;
Like puppets were the townsfolk led in that show they call a raree;
The Gotham sages363 were a joke to those of Canterbury.
With my coal-black beard, &c.
The theatre I next engaged, where I addressed the crowd, sirs,
And on retrenchment364 and reform I spouted365 long and loud, sirs;
On tithes366 and on taxation367 I enlarged with skill and zeal368, sirs,
Who so able as a Malta knight, the malt tax to repeal369, sirs.
With my coal-black beard, &c.
As a candidate I then stepped forth to represent their city,
And my non-election to that place was certainly a pity;
For surely I the fittest was, and very proper, very,
To represent the wisdom and the wit of Canterbury.
With my coal-black beard, &c.
At the trial of some smugglers next, one thing I rather queer did,
And the justices upon the bench I literally bearded;
For I swore that I some casks did see, though proved as clear as day, sirs,
That I happened at the time to be some fifty miles away, sirs.
With my coal-black beard, &c.
This last assertion, I must own, was somewhat of a blunder,
And for perjury370 indicted371 they compelled me to knock under;
To my prosperous career this slight error put a stop, sirs,
And thus crossed, the knight of Malta was at length obliged to hop80, sirs.
With his coal-black beard, and purple cloak,
jack-boots, and broad-brimmed castor,
Good-by to the knight of Malta.
[Footnote 74: This song describes pretty accurately372 the career of an extraordinary individual, who, in the lucid373 intervals374 of a half-crazed understanding, imposed himself upon the credulous375 inhabitants of Canterbury, in the year 1832, as a certain "SIR WILLIAM PERCY HONEYWOOD COURTENAY, KNIGHT OF MALTA;" and contrived--for there was considerable "method in his madness"--to support the deception376 during a long period. The anachronism of his character in a tale--the data of which is nearly a century back--will, perhaps, be overlooked, when it is considered of how much value, in the illustration of "wise saws," are "modern instances." Imposture377 and credulity are of all ages; and the Courtenays of the nineteenth are rivalled by the Tofts and Andres of the eighteenth century. The subjoined account of the soi-disant SIR WILLIAM COURTENAY is extracted from "An Essay on his Character, and Reflections on his Trial," published at the theatre of his exploits: "About Michaelmas last it was rumored that an extraordinary man was staying at the Rose Inn of this city--Canterbury--who passed under the name of Count Rothschild, but had been recently known in London by the name of Thompson! This would have been sufficient to excite attention, had no other incidents materially added to the excitement. His costume and countenance denoted foreign extraction, while his language and conversation showed that he was well acquainted with almost every part of this kingdom. He was said to live with singular frugality378, notwithstanding abundant samples of wealth, and professions of an almost unlimited379 command of money. He appeared to study retirement380, if not concealment381, although subsequent events have proved that society of every grade, beneath the middle class, is the element in which he most freely breathes. He often decked his person with a fine suit of Italian clothing, and sometimes with the more gay and imposing382 costume of the Eastern nations; yet these foreign habits were for months scarcely visible beyond the limits of the inn of his abode383, and the chapel384 not far from it, in which he was accustomed to offer his Sabbath devotions. This place was the first to which he made a public and frequent resort; and though he did not always attempt to advance towards the uppermost seat in the synagogue, he attracted attention from the mere263 singularity of his appearance.
"Such was the eccentric, incongruous individual who surprised our city by proposing himself as a third candidate for its representation, and who created an entertaining contest for the honor, long after the sitting candidates had composed themselves to the delightful385 vision of an inexpensive and unopposed return. The notion of representing the city originated beyond all doubt in the fertile brain of the man himself. It would seem to have been almost as sudden a thought in his mind, as it was a sudden and surprising movement in the view of the city; nor have we been able to ascertain whether his sojourn386 at the Rose was the cause or the effect of his offering to advocate our interests in Parliament--whether he came to the city with that high-minded purpose, or subsequently formed the notion, when he saw, or thought he saw, an opening for a stranger of enterprise like himself.
* * * * *
"As the county election drew on, we believe between the nomination387 on Barham Downs and the voting in the cattle market of the city, the draught388 of a certain handbill was sent to a printer of this city, with a request that he would publish it without delay. Our readers will not be surprised that he instantly declined the task; but as we have obtained possession of the copy, and its publication can now do no injury to any one, we entertain them with a sight of this delectable389 sample of Courtenay prudence390 and politeness.
"'O yes! O yes! O yes! I, Lord Viscount William Courtenay, of Powderham Castle, Devon, do hereby proclaim Sir Thomas Tylden, Sir Brook Brydges, Sir Edward Knatchbull, and Sir William Cosway, four cowards, unfit to represent, or to assist in returning members of Parliament to serve the brave men of Kent.
"'Percy Honeywood Courtenay, of Hales and Evington Place, Kent, and Knight of Malta.
"'Any gentleman desiring to know the reasons why Lord Courtenay so publicly exposes backbiters, any man of honor shall have satisfaction at his hands, and in a public way, according to the laws of our land--trial by combat; when the Almighty391 God, the Lord of Hosts is his name, can decide the "truth," whether it is a libel or not. I worship truth as my God, and will die for it--and upon this we will see who is strongest, God or man.'
"It is a coincidence too curious to be overlooked, that this doughty champion of truth should so soon have removed himself from public life by an act of deliberate and wanton perjury. We never read any of his rhapsodies, periodical or occasional, till the publication of this essay imposed the self-denying task upon us; but now we find that they abound392 in strong and solemn appeals to the truth; in bold proclamations that truth is his palladium; in evidences that he writes and raves98, that he draws his sword and clenches393 his fist, that he expends394 his property and the property of others committed to his hands, in no cause but that of truth! His famous periodical contains much vehement395 declamation396 in defence of certain doctrines397 of religion, which he terms the truth of the sublime398 system of Christianity, and for which alone he is content to live, and also willing to die. All who deviate399 from his standard of truth, whether theological or moral, philosophical400 or political, he appears to consider as neither fit for life nor death. Now it is a little strange, his warmest followers being witness, that such an advocate of truth should have become the willing victim of falsehood, the ready and eager martyr of the worst form of falsehood--perjury.
"The decline of his influence between the city and county elections has been partly attributed, and not without reason, to the sudden change in his appearance from comparative youth to advancing, if not extreme age. On the hustings401 of the city he shone forth in all the dazzling lustre of an Oriental chief; and such was the effect of gay clothing on the meridian402 of life, that his admirers, especially of the weaker sex, would insist upon it that he had not passed the beautiful spring-time of May. There were, indeed, some suspicious appearances of a near approach to forty, if not two or three years beyond it; but these were fondly ascribed to his foreign travels in distant and insalubrious climes; he had acquired his duskiness of complexion403, and his strength of feature and violence of gesture, and his profusion404 of beard, in Egypt and Syria, in exploring the catacombs of the one country, and bowing at the shrines406 of the other. On the other hand, the brilliancy of his eye, the melody of his voice, and the elasticity407 of his muscles and limbs, were sufficient arguments in favor of his having scarcely passed the limit that separates manhood from youth.
"All doubts on these points were removed, when the crowd of his fair admirers visited him at the retirement of his inn, and the intervals of his polling. These sub-Rosa interviews--we allude254 to the name of the inn, and not to anything like privacy there, which the very place and number of the visitors altogether precluded--convinced them that he was even a younger and lovelier man than his rather boisterous408 behavior in the hall would allow them to hope. In fact, he was now installed by acclamation Knight of Canterbury as well as Malta, and King of Kent as well as Jerusalem! It became dangerous then to whisper a syllable409 of suspicion against his wealth or rank, his wisdom or beauty; and all who would not bow down before this golden image were deemed worthy of no better fate than Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego--to be cast into a burning fiery410 furnace."
As a sequel to the above story, it may be added that the knight of Malta became the inmate of a lunatic asylum411; and on his liberation was shot at the head of a band of Kentish hinds412, whom he had persuaded that he was the Messiah!]
The knight sat down amidst the general plaudits of the company.
The party, meanwhile, had been increased by the arrival of Luke and the sexton. The former, who was in no mood for revelry, refused to comply with his grandsire's solicitation413 to enter, and remained sullenly414 at the door, with his arms folded, and his eyes fixed415 upon Turpin, whose movements he commanded through the canvas aperture416. The sexton walked up to Dick, who was seated at the post of honor, and, clapping him upon the shoulder, congratulated him upon the comfortable position in which he found him.
"Ha, ha! Are you there, my old death's-head on a mop-stick?" said Turpin, with a laugh. "Ain't we merry mumpers, eh? Keeping it up in style. Sit down, old Noah--make yourself comfortable, Methusalem."
"What say you to a drop of as fine Nantz as you ever tasted in your life, old cove?" said Zoroaster.
"I have no sort of objection to it," returned Peter, "provided you will all pledge my toast."
"That I will, were it old Ruffin himself," shouted Turpin.
"Here's to the three-legged mare," cried Peter. "To the tree that bears fruit all the year round, and yet has neither bark nor branch. You won't refuse that toast, Captain Turpin?"
"Not I," answered Dick; "I owe the gallows no grudge417. If, as Jerry's song says, I must have a 'hearty choke and caper sauce' for my breakfast one of these fine mornings, it shall never be said that I fell to my meal without appetite, or neglected saying grace before it. Gentlemen, here's Peter Bradley's toast: 'The scragging post--the three-legged mare,' with three times three."
Appropriate as this sentiment was, it did not appear to be so inviting418 to the party as might have been anticipated, and the shouts soon died away.
"They like not the thoughts of the gallows," said Turpin to Peter. "More fools they. A mere bugbear to frighten children, believe me; and never yet alarmed a brave man. The gallows, pshaw! One can but die once, and what signifies it how, so that it be over quickly. I think no more of the last leap into eternity419 than clearing a five-barred gate. A rope's end for it! So let us be merry, and make the most of our time, and that's true philosophy. I know you can throw off a rum chant," added he, turning to Peter. "I heard you sing last night at the hall. Troll us a stave, my antediluvian420 file, and, in the meantime, tip me a gage220 of fogus,[75] Jerry; and if that's a bowl of huckle-my-butt[76] you are brewing421, Sir William," added he, addressing the knight of Malta, "you may send me a jorum at your convenience."
[Footnote 75: A pipe of tobacco.
[Footnote 76: A drink composed of beer, eggs, and brandy.
Jerry handed the highwayman a pipe, together with a tumbler of the beverage422 which the knight had prepared, which he pronounced excellent; and while the huge bowl was passed round to the company, a prelude of shawms announced that Peter was ready to break into song.
Accordingly, after the symphony was ended, accompanied at intervals by a single instrument, Peter began his melody, in a key so high, that the utmost exertions423 of the shawm-blower failed to approach its altitudes. The burden of his minstrelsy was
THE MANDRAKE[77]
{Moly de min kaleousi theoi, chalnpon de t' oryssein
Andrasi ge thnetoisi theoi, de te panta dynantai.}
HOMERUS.
The mandrake grows 'neath the gallows-tree,
And rank and green are its leaves to see;
Green and rank, as the grass that waves
Over the unctuous424 earth of graves;
And though all around it lie bleak425 and bare,
Freely the mandrake flourisheth there.
Maranatha--Anathema!
Dread426 is the curse of mandragora!
Euthanasy!
At the foot of the gibbet the mandrake springs;
Just where the creaking carcase swings;
Some have thought it engendered427
From the fat that drops from the bones of the dead;
Some have thought it a human thing;
But this is a vain imagining.
Maranatha--Anathema!
Dread is the curse of mandragora!
Euthanasy!
A charnel leaf doth the mandrake wear,
A charnel fruit doth the mandrake bear;
Yet none like the mandrake hath such great power,
Such virtue428 resides not in herb or flower;
Aconite, hemlock429, or moonshade, I ween,
None hath a poison so subtle and keen.
Maranatha--Anathema!
Dread is the curse of mandragora!
Euthanasy!
And whether the mandrake be create
Flesh with the power incorporate,
I know not; yet, if from the earth 'tis rent,
Shrieks430 and groans431 from the root are sent;
Shrieks and groans, and a sweat like gore432
Oozes433 and drops from the clammy core.
Maranatha--Anathema!
Dread is the curse of mandragora!
Euthanasy!
Whoso gathereth the mandrake shall surely die;
Blood for blood is his destiny.
Some who have plucked it have died with groans,
Like to the mandrake's expiring moans;
Some have died raving434, and some beside--
With penitent435 prayers--but all have died.
Jesu! save us by night and day!
From the terrible death of mandragora!
Euthanasy!
[Footnote 77: The supposed malignant436 influence of this plant is frequently alluded to by our elder dramatists; and with one of the greatest of them, Webster--as might be expected from a muse249 revelling437 like a ghoul in graves and sepulchres--it is an especial favorite. But none have plunged438 so deeply into the subject as Sir Thomas Browne. He tears up the fable439 root and branch. Concerning the danger ensuing from eradication440 of the mandrake, the learned physician thus writes: "The last assertion is, that there follows a hazard of life to them that pull it up, that some evil fate pursues them, and that they live not very long hereafter. Therefore the attempt hereof among the ancients was not in ordinary way; but, as Pliny informeth, when they intended to take up the root of this plant, they took the wind thereof, and with a sword describing three circles about it, they digged it up, looking toward the west. A conceit441 not only injurious unto truth and confutable by daily experience, but somewhat derogatory unto the providence442 of God; that is, not only to impose so destructive a quality on any plant, but to conceive a vegetable whose parts are so useful unto many, should, in the only taking up, prove mortal unto any. This were to introduce a second forbidden fruit, and enhance the first malediction443, making it not only mortal for Adam to taste the one, but capital for his posterity444 to eradicate445 or dig up the other."--Vulgar Errors, book ii. c. vi.]
"A queer chant that," said Zoroaster, coughing loudly, in token of disapprobation.
"Not much to my taste," quoth the knight of Malta. "We like something more sprightly446 in Canterbury."
"Nor to mine," added Jerry; "don't think it's likely to have an encore. 'Pon my soul, Dick, you must give us something yourself, or we shall never cry Euthanasy at the Triple Tree."
"With all my heart," replied Turpin. "You shall have--but what do I see, my friend Sir Luke? Devil take my tongue, Luke Bradley, I mean. What, ho! Luke--nay, nay, man, no shrinking--stand forward; I've a word or two to say to you. We must have a hob-a-nob glass together for old acquaintance sake. Nay, no airs, man; damme you're not a lord yet, nor a baronet either, though I do hold your title in my pocket; never look glum447 at me. It won't pay. I'm one of the Canting Crew now; no man shall sneer448 at me with impunity, eh, Zory? Ha, ha! here's a glass of Nantz; we'll have a bottle of black strap when you are master of your own. Make ready there, you gut-scrapers, you shawm-shavers; I'll put your lungs in play for you presently. In the meantime--charge, pals, charge--a toast, a toast! Health and prosperity to Sir Luke Rookwood! I see you are surprised--this, gemmen, is Sir Luke Rookwood, somewhile Luke Bradley, heir to the house of that name, not ten miles distant from this. Say, shall we not drink a bumper333 to his health?"
Astonishment prevailed amongst the crew. Luke himself had been taken by surprise. When Turpin discovered him at the door of the tent, and summoned him to appear, he reluctantly complied with the request; but when, in a half-bantering vein449, Dick began to rally him upon his pretensions450, he would most gladly have retreated, had it been in his power. It was then too late. He felt he must stand the ordeal451. Every eye was fixed upon him with a look of inquiry.
Zoroaster took his everlasting452 pipe from his mouth.
"This ain't true, surely?" asked the perplexed453 Magus.
"He has said it," replied Luke; "I may not deny it."
This was sufficient. There was a wild hubbub454 of delight amongst the crew, for Luke was a favorite with all.
"Sir Luke Rookwood!" cried Jerry Juniper, who liked a title as much as Tommy Moore is said to dote upon a lord. "Upon my soul I sincerely congratulate you; devilish fortunate fellow. Always cursed unlucky myself. I could never find out my own father, unless it were one Monsieur des Capriolles, a French dancing-master, and he never left anything behind him that I could hear of, except a broken kit455 and a hempen widow. Sir Luke Rookwood, we shall do ourselves the pleasure of drinking your health and prosperity."
Fresh bumpers and immense cheering.
Silence being in a measure restored, Zoroaster claimed Turpin's promise of a song.
"True, true," replied Dick; "I have not forgotten it. Stand to your bows, my hearties456."
THE GAME OF HIGH TOBY
Now Oliver[78] puts his black nightcap on,
And every star its glim[79] is hiding,
And forth to the heath is the scampsman[80] gone,
His matchless cherry-black[81] prancer riding;
Merrily over the common he flies,
Fast and free as the rush of rocket,
His crape-covered vizard drawn over his eyes,
His tol[82] by his side, and his pops[83] in his pocket.
CHORUS
Then who can name
So merry a game,
As the game of all games--high toby? [84]
The traveller hears him, away! away!
Over the wide wide heath he scurries457;
He heeds458 not the thunderbolt summons to stay,
But ever the faster and faster he hurries.
But what daisy-cutter can match that black tit?
He is caught--he must "stand and deliver;"
Then out with the dummy[85], and off with the bit,[86]
Oh! the game of high toby for ever!
CHORUS
Then who can name
So merry a game,
As the game of all games--high toby?
Believe me, there is not a game, my brave boys,
To compare with the game of high toby;
No rapture459 can equal the tobyman's joys,
To blue devils, blue plumbs[87] give the go-by;
And what if, at length, boys, he come to the crap![88]
Even rack punch has some bitter in it,
For the mare-with-three-legs[89], boys, I care not a rap,
'Twill be over in less than a minute.
GRAND CHORUS
Then hip, hurrah460!
Fling care away!
Hurrah for the game of high toby!
[Footnote 78: The moon.]
[Footnote 79: Light.]
[Footnote 80] Highwayman.]
[Footnote 81: "Cherry-colored--black; there being black cherries as well as red."--GROSE.]
[Footnote 82: Sword.
[Footnote 83: Pistols.
[Footnote 84: Highway robbery.
[Footnote 85: Pocket-book.
[Footnote 86: Money.]
[Footnote 87: Bullets.]
[Footnote 88] The gallows.]
[Footnote 89: Ditto.]
"And now, pals," said Dick, who began to feel the influence of these morning cups, "I vote that we adjourn461. Believe me I shall always bear in mind that I am a brother of your band. Sir Luke and I must have a little chat together ere I take my leave. Adieu!"
And taking Luke by the arm, he walked out of the tent. Peter Bradley rose, and followed them.
At the door they found the dwarfish462 Grasshopper with Black Bess. Rewarding the urchin44 for his trouble, and slipping the bridle463 of his mare over his hand, Turpin continued his walk over the green. For a few minutes he seemed to be lost in rumination464.
"I tell you what, Sir Luke," said he; "I should like to do a generous thing, and make you a present of this bit of paper. But one ought not to throw away one's luck, you know--there is a tide in the affairs of thieves, as the player coves465 say, which must be taken at the flood, or else----no matter! Your old dad, Sir Piers--God help him!--had the gingerbread, that I know; he was, as we say, a regular rhino-cerical cull466. You won't feel a few thousands, especially at starting; and besides, there are two others, Rust and Wilder, who row in the same boat with me, and must therefore come in for their share of the reg'lars. All this considered, you can't complain, I think if I ask five thousand for it. That old harridan467, Lady Rookwood, offered me nearly as much."
"I will not talk to you of fairness," said Luke; "I will not say that document belongs of right to me. It fell by accident into your hands. Having possessed yourself of it, I blame you not that you dispose of it to the best advantage. I must, perforce, agree to your terms."
"Oh, no," replied Dick, "it's quite optional; Lady Rookwood will give as much, and make no mouths about it. Soho, lass! What makes Bess prick468 her ears in that fashion?--Ha! carriage-wheels in the distance! that jade469 knows the sound as well as I do. I'll just see what it's like!--you will have ten minutes for reflection. Who knows if I may not have come in for a good thing here?"
At that instant the carriage passed the angle of a rock some three hundred yards distant, and was seen slowly ascending470 the hill-side. Eager as a hawk after his quarry471, Turpin dashed after it.
In vain the sexton, whom he nearly overthrew472 in his career, called after him to halt. He sped like a bolt from the bow.
"May the devil break his neck!" cried Peter, as he saw him dash through the brook; "could he not let them alone?"
"This must not be," said Luke; "know you whose carriage it is?"
"It is a shrine405 that holds the jewel that should be dearest in your eyes," returned Peter; "haste, and arrest the spoiler's hand."
"Whom do you mean?" asked Luke.
"Eleanor Mowbray," replied Peter. "She is there. To the rescue--away."
"Eleanor Mowbray!" echoed Luke--"and Sybil?----"
At this instant a pistol-shot was heard.
"Will you let murder be done, and upon your cousin?" cried Peter, with a bitter look. "You are not what I took you for."
Luke answered not, but, swift as the hound freed from the leash473, darted474 in the direction of the carriage.
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deception
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imposture
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frugality
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retirement
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concealment
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delightful
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sojourn
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nomination
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draught
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delectable
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prudence
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almighty
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doctrines
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sublime
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philosophical
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meridian
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elasticity
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boisterous
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syllable
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fiery
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solicitation
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aperture
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grudge
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inviting
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eternity
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antediluvian
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brewing
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exertions
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conceit
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providence
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malediction
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posterity
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eradicate
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sprightly
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sneer
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hubbub
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kit
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bridle
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quarry
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