Dauphin. I will not change my horse with any that treads but on four pasterns. Ca, ha! He bounds from the earth as if his entrails were hairs; le cheval volant, the Pegasus qui a les narines de feu! When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk1: he trots3 the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof4 is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.
---SHAKESPEARE: Henry V., Act III.
Black Bess being undoubtedly5 the heroine of the Fourth Book of this Romance, we may, perhaps, be pardoned for expatiating6 a little in this place upon her birth, parentage, breeding, appearance, and attractions. And first as to her pedigree; for in the horse, unlike the human species, nature has strongly impressed the noble or ignoble7 caste. He is the real aristocrat8, and the pure blood that flows in the veins10 of the gallant11 steed will infallibly be transmitted, if his mate be suitable, throughout all his line. Bess was no cock-tail. She was thorough-bred; she boasted blood in every bright and branching vein9:
If blood can give nobility,
A noble steed was she;
Her sire was blood, and blood her dam,
And all her pedigree.
As to her pedigree. Her sire was a desert Arab, renowned13 in his day, and brought to this country by a wealthy traveller; her dam was an English racer, coal-black as her child. Bess united all the fire and gentleness, the strength and hardihood, the abstinence and endurance of fatigue14 of the one, with the spirit and extraordinary fleetness of the other. How Turpin became possessed15 of her is of little consequence. We never heard that he paid a heavy price for her; though we doubt if any sum would have induced him to part with her. In color, she was perfectly16 black, with a skin smooth on the surface as polished jet; not a single white hair could be detected in her satin coat. In make she was magnificent. Every point was perfect, beautiful, compact; modelled, in little, for strength and speed. Arched was her neck, as that of the swan; clean and fine were her lower limbs, as those of the gazelle; round and sound as a drum was her carcase, and as broad as a cloth-yard shaft17 her width of chest. Hers were the "pulchrae clunes, breve caput, arduaque cervix," of the Roman bard18. There was no redundancy of flesh, 'tis true; her flanks might, to please some tastes, have been rounder, and her shoulders fuller; but look at the nerve and sinew, palpable through the veined limbs! She was built more for strength than beauty, and yet she was beautiful. Look at that elegant little head; those thin, tapering19 ears, closely placed together; that broad, snorting nostril20, which seems to snuff the gale21 with disdain22; that eye, glowing and large as the diamond of Giamschid! Is she not beautiful? Behold23 her paces! how gracefully24 she moves! She is off!--no eagle on the wing could skim the air more swiftly. Is she not superb? As to her temper, the lamb is not more gentle. A child might guide her.
But hark back to Dick Turpin. We left him rattling25 along in superb style, and in the highest possible glee. He could not, in fact, be otherwise than exhilarated; nothing being so wildly intoxicating26 as a mad gallop27. We seem to start out of ourselves--to be endued28, for the time, with new energies. Our thoughts take wings rapid as our steed. We feel as if his fleetness and boundless29 impulses were for the moment our own. We laugh; we exult30; we shout for very joy. We cry out with Mephistopheles, but in anything but a sardonic31 mood, "What I enjoy with spirit, is it the less my own on that account? If I can pay for six horses, are not their powers mine! I drive along, and am a proper man, as if I had four-and-twenty legs!" These were Turpin's sentiments precisely32. Give him four legs and a wide plain, and he needed no Mephistopheles to bid him ride to perdition as fast as his nag33 could carry him. Away, away!--the road is level, the path is clear. Press on, thou gallant steed, no obstacle is in thy way!--and, lo! the moon breaks forth34! Her silvery light is thrown over the woody landscape. Dark shadows are cast athwart the road, and the flying figures of thy rider and thyself are traced, like giant phantoms35, in the dust!
Away, away! our breath is gone in keeping up with this tremendous run. Yet Dick Turpin has not lost his wind, for we hear his cheering cry--hark! he sings. The reader will bear in mind that Oliver means the moon--to "whiddle" is to blab.
OLIVER WHIDDLES!
Oliver whiddles--the tattler old!
Oliver ne'er was a friend of mine;
All glims I hate that so brightly shine.
Give me a night black as hell, and then
See what I'll show to you, my merry men.
Oliver whiddles!--who cares--who cares,
If down upon us he peers and stares?
Mind him who will, with his great white face,
Boldly I'll ride by his glim to the chase;
Give him a Rowland, and loudly as ever
Shout, as I show myself, "Stand and deliver!"
"Egad," soliloquized Dick, as he concluded his song, looking up at the moon. "Old Noll's no bad fellow, either. I wouldn't be without his white face to-night for a trifle. He's as good as a lamp to guide one, and let Bess only hold on as she goes now, and I'll do it with ease. Softly, wench, softly--dost not see it's a hill we're rising. The devil's in the mare37, she cares for nothing." And as they ascended38 the hill, Dick's voice once more awoke the echoes of night.
WILL DAVIES AND DICK TURPIN
Hodie mihi, cras tibi.--SAINT AUGUSTIN.
One night, when mounted on my mare,
To Bagshot Heath I did repair,
And saw Will Davies hanging there,
With a rustified, fustified, mustified air!
Within his chains bold Will looked blue,
Gone were his sword and snappers too,
Which served their master well and true;
Says I, "Will Davies, how are you?
With your rustified, fustified, mustified air!"
Says he, "Dick Turpin, here I be,
Upon the gibbet, as you see;
I take the matter easily;
You'll have your turn as well as me,
With your whistle-me, pistol-me, cut-my-throat air!"
Says I, "That's very true, my lad;
Meantime, with pistol and with prad,
With its rustified, fustified, mustified air!"
"Poor Will Davies!" sighed Dick; "Bagshot ought never to forget him."[110]
For never more shall Bagshot see
A highwayman of such degree,
Appearance, and gentility,
As Will, who hangs upon the tree,
With his rustified, fustified, mustified air!
[Footnote 110: This, we regret to say, is not the case. The memory of bold Will Davies, the "Golden Farmer"--so named from the circumstances of his always paying his rent in gold,--is fast declining upon his peculiar42 domain43, Bagshot. The inn, which once bore his name, still remains44 to point out to the traveller the dangers his forefathers45 had to encounter in crossing this extensive heath. Just beyond this house the common spreads out for miles on all aides in a most gallop-inviting style; and the passenger, as he gazes from the box of some flying coach, as we have done, upon the gorse-covered waste, may, without much stretch of fancy, imagine he beholds46 Will Davies careering like the wind over its wild and undulating expanse. We are sorry to add that the "Golden Farmer" has altered its designation to the "Jolly Farmer." This should be amended47; and when next we pass that way, we hope to see the original sign restored. We cannot afford to lose our golden farmers.]
"Well," mused48 Turpin, "I suppose one day it will be with me like all the rest of 'em, and that I shall dance a long lavolta to the music of the four whistling winds, as my betters have done before me; but I trust, whenever the chanter-culls and last-speech scribblers get hold of me, they'll at least put no cursed nonsense into my mouth, but make me speak, as I have ever felt, like a man who never either feared death, or turned his back upon his friend. In the mean time I'll give them something to talk about. This ride of mine shall ring in their ears long after I'm done for--put to bed with a mattock, and tucked up with a spade.
And when I am gone, boys, each huntsman shall say,
None rode like Dick Turpin, so far in a day.
And thou, too, brave Bess!--thy name shall be linked with mine, and we'll go down to posterity49 together; and what," added he, despondingly, "if it should be too much for thee? what if----but no matter! Better die now, while I am with thee, than fall into the knacker's hands. Better die with all thy honors upon thy head, than drag out thy old age at the sand-cart. Hark forward, lass--hark forward!"
By what peculiar instinct is it that this noble animal, the horse, will at once perceive the slightest change in his rider's physical temperament50, and allow himself so to be influenced by it, that, according as his master's spirits fluctuate, will his own energies rise and fall, wavering
How is it, we ask of those more intimately acquainted with the metaphysics of the Houyhnhnm than we pretend to be? Do the saddle or the rein51 convey, like metallic52 tractors, vibrations53 of the spirit betwixt the two? We know not, but this much is certain, that no servant partakes so much of the character of his master as the horse. The steed we are wont54 to ride becomes a portion of ourselves. He thinks and feels with us. As we are lively, he is sprightly55; as we are depressed56, his courage droops57. In proof of this, let the reader see what horses some men make--make, we say, because in such hands their character is wholly altered. Partaking, in a measure, of the courage and the firmness of the hand that guides them, and of the resolution of the frame that sways them--what their rider wills, they do, or strive to do. When that governing power is relaxed, their energies are relaxed likewise; and their fine sensibilities supply them with an instant knowledge of the disposition58 and capacity of the rider. A gift of the gods is the gallant steed, which, like any other faculty59 we possess, to use or to abuse--to command or to neglect--rests with ourselves; he is the best general test of our own self-government.
Black Bess's action amply verified what we have just asserted; for during Turpin's momentary60 despondency, her pace was perceptibly diminished and her force retarded61; but as he revived, she rallied instantly, and, seized apparently62 with a kindred enthusiasm, snorted joyously63 as she recovered her speed. Now was it that the child of the desert showed herself the undoubted offspring of the hardy64 loins from whence she sprung. Full fifty miles had she sped, yet she showed no symptoms of distress65. If possible, she appeared fresher than when she started. She had breathed; her limbs were suppler66; her action was freer, easier, lighter67. Her sire, who, upon his trackless wilds, could have outstripped68 the pestilent simoom; and with throat unslaked, and hunger unappeased, could thrice have seen the scorching69 sun go down, had not greater powers of endurance. His vigor70 was her heritage. Her dam, who upon the velvet71 sod was of almost unapproachable swiftness, and who had often brought her owner golden assurances of her worth, could scarce have kept pace with her, and would have sunk under a third of her fatigue. But Bess was a paragon72. We ne'er shall look upon her like again, unless we can prevail upon some Bedouin chief to present us with a brood mare, and then the racing73 world shall see what a breed we will introduce into this country. Eclipse, Childers, or Hambletonian, shall be nothing to our colts, and even the railroad slow travelling, compared with the speed of our new nags74!
But to return to Bess, or rather to go along with her, for there is no halting now; we are going at the rate of twenty knots an hour--sailing before the wind; and the reader must either keep pace with us, or drop astern. Bess is now in her speed, and Dick happy. Happy! he is enraptured--maddened--furious--intoxicated as with wine. Pshaw! wine could never throw him into such a burning delirium75. Its choicest juices have no inspiration like this. Its fumes76 are slow and heady. This is ethereal, transporting. His blood spins through his veins; winds round his heart; mounts to his brain. Away! away! He is wild with joy. Hall, cot, tree, tower, glade77, mead78, waste, or woodland, are seen, passed, left behind, and vanish as in a dream. Motion is scarcely perceptible--it is impetus79! volition80! The horse and her rider are driven forward, as it were, by self-accelerated speed. A hamlet is visible in the moonlight. It is scarcely discovered ere the flints sparkle beneath the mare's hoofs81. A moment's clatter82 upon the stones, and it is left behind. Again it is the silent, smiling country. Now they are buried in the darkness of woods; now sweeping83 along on the wide plain; now clearing the unopened toll-bar; now trampling84 over the hollow-sounding bridge, their shadows momently reflected in the placid85 mirror of the stream; now scaling the hill-side a thought more slowly; now plunging86, as the horses of Ph[oe]bus into the ocean, down its precipitous sides.
The limits of two shires are already past. They are within the confines of a third. They have entered the merry county of Huntingdon; they have surmounted87 the gentle hill that slips into Godmanchester. They are by the banks of the rapid Ouse. The bridge is past; and as Turpin rode through the deserted88 streets of Huntingdon, he heard the eleventh hour given from the iron tongue of St. Mary's spire89. In four hours--it was about seven when he started--Dick had accomplished90 full sixty miles!
A few reeling topers in the streets saw the horseman flit past, and one or two windows were thrown open; but Peeping Tom of Coventry would have had small chance of beholding91 the unveiled beauties of Queen Godiva had she ridden at the rate of Dick Turpin. He was gone, like a meteor, almost as soon as he appeared.
Huntingdon is left behind, and he is once more surrounded by dew-gemmed hedges and silent slumbering92 trees. Broad meadows, or pasture land, with drowsy93 cattle, or low bleating94 sheep, lie on either side. But what to Turpin, at that moment, is nature, animate95 or inanimate? He thinks only of his mare--his future fame. None are by to see him ride; no stimulating96 plaudits ring in his ears; no thousand hands are clapping; no thousand voices huzzaing; no handkerchiefs are waved; no necks strained; no bright eyes rain influence upon him; no eagle orbs98 watch his motions; no bells are rung; no cup awaits his achievement; no sweepstakes--no plate. But his will be renown12--everlasting renown; his will be fame which will not die with him--which will keep his reputation, albeit99 a tarnished100 one, still in the mouths of men. He wants all these adventitious101 excitements, but he has that within which is a greater excitement than all these. He is conscious that he is doing a deed to live by. If not riding for life, he is riding for immortality102; and as the hero may perchance feel--for even a highwayman may feel like a hero,--when he willingly throws away his existence in the hope of earning a glorious name, Turpin cared not what might befall himself, so he could proudly signalize himself as the first of his land,
And witch the world with noble horsemanship!
What need had he of spectators? The eye of posterity was upon him; he felt the influence of that Argus glance which has made many a poor wight spur on his Pegasus with not half so good a chance of reaching the goal as Dick Turpin. Multitudes, yet unborn, he knew would hear and laud97 his deeds. He trembled with excitement, and Bess trembled under him. But the emotion was transient. On, on they fly! The torrent103 leaping from the crag--the bolt from the bow--the air-cleaving eagle--thoughts themselves are scarce more winged in their flight!
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