But she the fairest answers not — the tide
Of nobles and of ladies throngs3 the halls,
But she the loveliest must in secret hide.
What eyes were thine, proud Prince, which in the gleam
Of yon gay meteors lost that better sense,
That o’er the glow-worm doth the star esteem4,
And merit’s modest blush o’er courtly insolence5?
The Glass Slipper6.
The unfortunate Countess of Leicester had, from her infancy7 upwards8, been treated by those around her with indulgence as unbounded as injudicious. The natural sweetness of her disposition9 had saved her from becoming insolent10 and ill-humoured; but the caprice which preferred the handsome and insinuating11 Leicester before Tressilian, of whose high honour and unalterable affection she herself entertained so firm an opinion — that fatal error, which ruined the happiness of her life, had its origin in the mistaken kindness; that had spared her childhood the painful but most necessary lesson of submission12 and self-command. From the same indulgence it followed that she had only been accustomed to form and to express her wishes, leaving to others the task of fulfilling them; and thus, at the most momentous13 period of her life, she was alike destitute14 of presence of mind, and of ability to form for herself any reasonable or prudent15 plan of conduct.
These difficulties pressed on the unfortunate lady with overwhelming force on the morning which seemed to be the crisis of her fate. Overlooking every intermediate consideration, she had only desired to be at Kenilworth, and to approach her husband’s presence; and now, when she was in the vicinity of both, a thousand considerations arose at once upon her mind, startling her with accumulated doubts and dangers, some real, some imaginary, and all exalted16 and exaggerated by a situation alike helpless and destitute of aid and counsel.
A sleepless17 night rendered her so weak in the morning that she was altogether unable to attend Wayland’s early summons. The trusty guide became extremely distressed18 on the lady’s account, and somewhat alarmed on his own, and was on the point of going alone to Kenilworth, in the hope of discovering Tressilian, and intimating to him the lady’s approach, when about nine in the morning he was summoned to attend her. He found her dressed, and ready for resuming her journey, but with a paleness of countenance19 which alarmed him for her health. She intimated her desire that the horses might be got instantly ready, and resisted with impatience20 her guide’s request that she would take some refreshment22 before setting forward. “I have had,” she said, “a cup of water — the wretch23 who is dragged to execution needs no stronger cordial, and that may serve me which suffices for him. Do as I command you.” Wayland Smith still hesitated. “What would you have?” said she. “Have I not spoken plainly?”
“Yes, madam,” answered Wayland; “but may I ask what is your further purpose? I only wish to know, that I may guide myself by your wishes. The whole country is afloat, and streaming towards the Castle of Kenilworth. It will be difficult travelling thither26, even if we had the necessary passports for safe-conduct and free admittance; unknown and unfriended, we may come by mishap27. Your ladyship will forgive my speaking my poor mind — were we not better try to find out the maskers, and again join ourselves with them?” The Countess shook her head, and her guide proceeded, “Then I see but one other remedy.”
“Speak out, then,” said the lady, not displeased28, perhaps, that he should thus offer the advice which she was ashamed to ask; “I believe thee faithful — what wouldst thou counsel?”
“That I should warn Master Tressilian,” said Wayland, “that you are in this place. I am right certain he would get to horse with a few of Lord Sussex’s followers29, and ensure your personal safety.”
“And is it to me you advise,” said the Countess, “to put myself under the protection of Sussex, the unworthy rival of the noble Leicester?” Then, seeing the surprise with which Wayland stared upon her, and afraid of having too strongly intimated her interest in Leicester, she added, “And for Tressilian, it must not be — mention not to him, I charge you, my unhappy name; it would but double my misfortunes, and involve him in dangers beyond the power of rescue.” She paused; but when she observed that Wayland continued to look on her with that anxious and uncertain gaze which indicated a doubt whether her brain was settled, she assumed an air of composure, and added, “Do thou but guide me to Kenilworth Castle, good fellow, and thy task is ended, since I will then judge what further is to be done. Thou hast yet been true to me — here is something that will make thee rich amends30.”
She offered the artist a ring containing a valuable stone. Wayland looked at it, hesitated a moment, and then returned it. “Not,” he said, “that I am above your kindness, madam, being but a poor fellow, who have been forced, God help me! to live by worse shifts than the bounty31 of such a person as you. But, as my old master the farrier used to say to his customers, ‘No cure, no pay.’ We are not yet in Kenilworth Castle, and it is time enough to discharge your guide, as they say, when you take your boots off. I trust in God your ladyship is as well assured of fitting reception when you arrive, as you may hold yourself certain of my best endeavours to conduct you thither safely. I go to get the horses; meantime, let me pray you once more, as your poor physician as well as guide, to take some sustenance32.”
“I will — I will,” said the lady hastily. “Begone, begone instantly!— It is in vain I assume audacity,” said she, when he left the room; “even this poor groom33 sees through my affectation of courage, and fathoms34 the very ground of my fears.”
She then attempted to follow her guide’s advice by taking some food, but was compelled to desist, as the effort to swallow even a single morsel35 gave her so much uneasiness as amounted well-nigh to suffocation36. A moment afterwards the horses appeared at the latticed window. The lady mounted, and found that relief from the free air and change of place which is frequently experienced in similar circumstances.
It chanced well for the Countess’s purpose that Wayland Smith, whose previous wandering and unsettled life had made him acquainted with almost all England, was intimate with all the by-roads, as well as direct communications, through the beautiful county of Warwick. For such and so great was the throng2 which flocked in all directions towards Kenilworth, to see the entry of Elizabeth into that splendid mansion37 of her prime favourite, that the principal roads were actually blocked up and interrupted, and it was only by circuitous39 by-paths that the travellers could proceed on their journey.
The Queen’s purveyors had been abroad, sweeping41 the farms and villages of those articles usually exacted during a royal Progress, and for which the owners were afterwards to obtain a tardy42 payment from the Board of Green Cloth. The Earl of Leicester’s household officers had been scouring43 the country for the same purpose; and many of his friends and allies, both near and remote, took this opportunity of ingratiating themselves by sending large quantities of provisions and delicacies44 of all kinds, with game in huge numbers, and whole tuns of the best liquors, foreign and domestic. Thus the highroads were filled with droves of bullocks, sheep, calves46, and hogs47, and choked with loaded wains, whose axle-trees cracked under their burdens of wine-casks and hogsheads of ale, and huge hampers48 of grocery goods, and slaughtered49 game, and salted provisions, and sacks of flour. Perpetual stoppages took place as these wains became entangled50; and their rude drivers, swearing and brawling51 till their wild passions were fully52 raised, began to debate precedence with their wagon-whips and quarterstaves, which occasional riots were usually quieted by a purveyor40, deputy-marshal’s man, or some other person in authority, breaking the heads of both parties.
Here were, besides, players and mummers, jugglers and showmen, of every description, traversing in joyous54 bands the paths which led to the Palace of Princely Pleasure; for so the travelling minstrels had termed Kenilworth in the songs which already had come forth55 in anticipation56 of the revels57 which were there expected. In the midst of this motley show, mendicants were exhibiting their real or pretended miseries58, forming a strange though common contrast betwixt the vanities and the sorrows of human existence. All these floated along with the immense tide of population whom mere59 curiosity had drawn60 together; and where the mechanic, in his leathern apron61, elbowed the dink and dainty dame62, his city mistress; where clowns, with hobnailed shoes, were treading on the kibes of substantial burghers and gentlemen of worship; and where Joan of the dairy, with robust63 pace, and red, sturdy arms, rowed her way unward, amongst those prim38 and pretty moppets whose sires were knights64 and squires65.
The throng and confusion was, however, of a gay and cheerful character. All came forth to see and to enjoy, and all laughed at the trifling67 inconveniences which at another time might have chafed68 their temper. Excepting the occasional brawls69 which we have mentioned among that irritable70 race the carmen, the mingled71 sounds which arose from the multitude were those of light-hearted mirth and tiptoe jollity. The musicians preluded72 on their instruments — the minstrels hummed their songs — the licensed73 jester whooped74 betwixt mirth and madness, as he brandished75 his bauble76 — the morrice-dancers jangled their bells — the rustics77 hallooed and whistled-men laughed loud, and maidens78 giggled79 shrill80; while many a broad jest flew like a shuttlecock from one party, to be caught in the air and returned from the opposite side of the road by another, at which it was aimed.
No infliction81 can be so distressing82 to a mind absorbed in melancholy83, as being plunged84 into a scene of mirth and revelry, forming an accompaniment so dissonant85 from its own feelings. Yet, in the case of the Countess of Leicester, the noise and tumult86 of this giddy scene distracted her thoughts, and rendered her this sad service, that it became impossible for her to brood on her own misery87, or to form terrible anticipations88 of her approaching fate. She travelled on like one in a dream, following implicitly89 the guidance of Wayland, who, with great address, now threaded his way through the general throng of passengers, now stood still until a favourable90 opportunity occurred of again moving forward, and frequently turning altogether out of the direct road, followed some circuitous by-path, which brought them into the highway again, after having given them the opportunity of traversing a considerable way with greater ease and rapidity.
It was thus he avoided Warwick, within whose Castle (that fairest monument of ancient and chivalrous91 splendour which yet remains92 uninjured by time) Elizabeth had passed the previous night, and where she was to tarry until past noon, at that time the general hour of dinner throughout England, after which repast she was to proceed to Kenilworth, In the meanwhile, each passing group had something to say in the Sovereign’s praise, though not absolutely without the usual mixture of satire93 which qualifies more or less our estimate of our neighbours, especially if they chance to be also our betters.
“Heard you,” said. one, “how graciously she spoke25 to Master Bailiff and the Recorder, and to good Master Griffin the preacher, as they kneeled down at her coach-window?”
“Ay, and how she said to little Aglionby, ‘Master Recorder, men would have persuaded me that you were afraid of me, but truly I think, so well did you reckon up to me the virtues94 of a sovereign, that I have more reason to be afraid of you.’ and then with what grace she took the fair-wrought purse with the twenty gold sovereigns, seeming as though she would not willingly handle it, and yet taking it withal.”
“Ay, ay,” said another, “her fingers closed on it pretty willingly methought, when all was done; and methought, too, she weighed them for a second in her hand, as she would say, I hope they be avoirdupois.”
“She needed not, neighbour,” said a third; “it is only when the corporation pay the accounts of a poor handicraft like me, that they put him off with clipped coin. Well, there is a God above all — little Master Recorder, since that is the word, will be greater now than ever.”
“Come, good neighbour,” said the first speaker “be not envious95. She is a good Queen, and a generous; she gave the purse to the Earl of Leicester.”
“I envious?— beshrew thy heart for the word!” replied the handicraft. “But she will give all to the Earl of Leicester anon, methinks.”
“You are turning ill, lady,” said Wayland Smith to the Countess of Leicester, and proposed that she should draw off from the road, and halt till she recovered. But, subduing96 her feelings at this and different speeches to the same purpose, which caught her ear as they passed on, she insisted that her guide should proceed to Kenilworth with all the haste which the numerous impediments of their journey permitted. Meanwhile, Wayland’s anxiety at her repeated fits of indisposition, and her obvious distraction97 of mind, was hourly increasing, and he became extremely desirous that, according to her reiterated98 requests, she should be safely introduced into the Castle, where, he doubted not, she was secure of a kind reception, though she seemed unwilling99 to reveal on whom she reposed100 her hopes.
“An I were once rid of this peril101,” thought he, “and if any man shall find me playing squire66 of the body to a damosel-errant, he shall have leave to beat my brains out with my own sledge-hammer!”
At length the princely Castle appeared, upon improving which, and the domains102 around, the Earl of Leicester had, it is said, expended104 sixty thousand pounds sterling105, a sum equal to half a million of our present money.
The outer wall of this splendid and gigantic structure enclosed seven acres, a part of which was occupied by extensive stables, and by a pleasure garden, with its trim arbours and parterres, and the rest formed the large base-court or outer yard of the noble Castle. The lordly structure itself, which rose near the centre of this spacious106 enclosure, was composed of a huge pile of magnificent castellated buildings, apparently107 of different ages, surrounding an inner court, and bearing in the names attached to each portion of the magnificent mass, and in the armorial bearings which were there blazoned108, the emblems109 of mighty110 chiefs who had long passed away, and whose history, could Ambition have lent ear to it, might have read a lesson to the haughty111 favourite who had now acquired and was augmenting112 the fair domain103. A large and massive Keep, which formed the citadel113 of the Castle, was of uncertain though great antiquity114. It bore the name of Caesar, perhaps from its resemblance to that in the Tower of London so called. Some antiquaries ascribe its foundation to the time of Kenelph, from whom the Castle had its name, a Saxon King of Mercia, and others to an early era after the Norman Conquest. On the exterior115 walls frowned the scutcheon of the Clintons, by whom they were founded in the reign45 of Henry I.; and of the yet more redoubted Simon de Montfort, by whom, during the Barons’ wars, Kenilworth was long held out against Henry III. Here Mortimer, Earl of March, famous alike for his rise and his fall, had once gaily116 revelled117 in Kenilworth, while his dethroned sovereign, Edward II., languished118 in its dungeons119. Old John of Gaunt, “time-honoured Lancaster,” had widely extended the Castle, erecting120 that noble and massive pile which yet bears the name of Lancaster’s Buildings; and Leicester himself had outdone the former possessors, princely and powerful as they were, by erecting another immense structure, which now lies crushed under its own ruins, the monument of its owner’s ambition. The external wall of this royal Castle was, on the south and west sides, adorned121 and defended by a lake partly artificial, across which Leicester had constructed a stately bridge, that Elizabeth might enter the Castle by a path hitherto untrodden, instead of the usual entrance to the northward122, over which he had erected123 a gatehouse or barbican, which still exists, and is equal in extent, and superior in architecture, to the baronial castle of many a northern chief.
Beyond the lake lay an extensive chase, full of red deer, fallow deer, roes124, and every species of game, and abounding125 with lofty trees, from amongst which the extended front and massive towers of the Castle were seen to rise in majesty126 and beauty. We cannot but add, that of this lordly palace, where princes feasted and heroes fought, now in the bloody127 earnest of storm and siege, and now in the games of chivalry128, where beauty dealt the prize which valour won, all is now desolate129. The bed of the lake is but a rushy swamp; and the massive ruins of the Castle only serve to show what their splendour once was, and to impress on the musing130 visitor the transitory value of human possessions, and the happiness of those who enjoy a humble131 lot in virtuous132 contentment.
It was with far different feelings that the unfortunate Countess of Leicester viewed those grey and massive towers, when she first beheld133 them rise above the embowering and richly-shaded woods, over which they seemed to preside. She, the undoubted wife of the great Earl, of Elizabeth’s minion134, and England’s mighty favourite, was approaching the presence of her husband, and that husband’s sovereign, under the protection, rather than the guidance, of a poor juggler53; and though unquestioned Mistress of that proud Castle, whose lightest word ought to have had force sufficient to make its gates leap from their massive hinges to receive her, yet she could not conceal135 from herself the difficulty and peril which she must experience in gaining admission into her own halls.
The risk and difficulty, indeed, seemed to increase every moment, and at length threatened altogether to put a stop to her further progress at the great gate leading to a broad and fair road, which, traversing the breadth of the chase for the space of two miles, and commanding several most beautiful views of the Castle and lake, terminated at the newly constructed bridge, to which it was an appendage136, and which was destined137 to form the Queen’s approach to the Castle on that memorable138 occasion.
Here the Countess and Wayland found the gate at the end of this avenue, which opened on the Warwick road, guarded by a body of the Queen’s mounted yeomen of the guard, armed in corselets richly carved and gilded139, and wearing morions instead of bonnets140, having their carabines resting with the butt-end on their thighs141. These guards, distinguished142 for strength and stature143, who did duty wherever the Queen went in person, were here stationed under the direction of a pursuivant, graced with the Bear and Ragged24 Staff on his arm, as belonging to the Earl of Leicester, and peremptorily144 refused all admittance, excepting to such as were guests invited to the festival, or persons who were to perform some part in the mirthful exhibitions which were proposed.
The press was of consequence great around the entrance, and persons of all kinds presented every sort of plea for admittance; to which the guards turned an inexorable ear, pleading, in return to fair words, and even to fair offers, the strictness of their orders, founded on the Queen’s well-known dislike to the rude pressing of a multitude. With those whom such reasons did not serve,they dealt more rudely, repelling145 them without ceremony by the pressure of their powerful, barbed horses, and good round blows from the stock of their carabines. These last manoeuvres produced undulations amongst the crowd, which rendered Wayland much afraid that he might perforce be separated from his charge in the throng. Neither did he know what excuse to make in order to obtain admittance, and he was debating the matter in his head with great uncertainty146, when the Earl’s pursuivant, having cast an eye upon him, exclaimed, to his no small surprise, “Yeomen, make room for the fellow in the orange-tawny cloak.— Come forward, Sir Coxcomb147, and make haste. What, in the fiend’s name, has kept you waiting? Come forward with your bale of woman’s gear.”
While the pursuivant gave Wayland this pressing yet uncourteous invitation, which, for a minute or two, he could not imagine was applied148 to him, the yeomen speedily made a free passage for him, while, only cautioning his companion to keep the muffler close around her face, he entered the gate leading her palfrey, but with such a drooping149 crest150, and such a look of conscious fear and anxiety, that the crowd, not greatly pleased at any rate with the preference bestowed151 upon them, accompanied their admission with hooting152 and a loud laugh of derision.
Admitted thus within the chase, though with no very flattering notice or distinction, Wayland and his charge rode forward, musing what difficulties it would be next their lot to encounter, through the broad avenue, which was sentinelled on either side by a long line of retainers, armed with swords, and partisans153 richly dressed in the Earl of Leicester’s liveries, and bearing his cognizance of the Bear and Ragged Staff, each placed within three paces of each other, so as to line the whole road from the entrance into the park to the bridge. And, indeed, when the lady obtained the first commanding view of the Castle, with its stately towers rising from within a long, sweeping line of outward walls, ornamented154 with battlements and turrets155 and platforms at every point of defence, with many a banner streaming from its walls, and such a bustle156 of gay crests157 and waving plumes158 disposed on the terraces and battlements, and all the gay and gorgeous scene, her heart, unaccustomed to such splendour, sank as if it died within her, and for a moment she asked herself what she had offered up to Leicester to deserve to become the partner of this princely splendour. But her pride and generous spirit resisted the whisper which bade her despair.
“I have given him,” she said, “all that woman has to give. Name and fame, heart and hand, have I given the lord of all this magnificence at the altar, and England’s Queen could give him no more. He is my husband — I am his wife — whom God hath joined, man cannot sunder159. I will be bold in claiming my right; even the bolder, that I come thus unexpected, and thus forlorn. I know my noble Dudley well! He will be something impatient at my disobeying him, but Amy will weep, and Dudley will forgive her.”
These meditations160 were interrupted by a cry of surprise from her guide Wayland, who suddenly felt himself grasped firmly round the body by a pair of long, thin black arms, belonging to some one who had dropped himself out of an oak tree upon the croup of his horse, amidst the shouts of laughter which burst from the sentinels.
“This must be the devil, or Flibbertigibbet again!” said Wayland, after a vain struggle to disengage himself, and unhorse the urchin161 who clung to him; “do Kenilworth oaks bear such acorns162?”
“In sooth do they, Master Wayland,” said his unexpected adjunct, “and many others, too hard for you to crack, for as old as you are, without my teaching you. How would you have passed the pursuivant at the upper gate yonder, had not I warned him our principal juggler was to follow us? And here have I waited for you, having clambered up into the tree from the top of the wain; and I suppose they are all mad for want of me by this time,”
“Nay, then, thou art a limb of the devil in good earnest,” said Wayland. “I give thee way, good imp21, and will walk by thy counsel; only, as thou art powerful be merciful.”
As he spoke, they approached a strong tower, at the south extremity163 of the long bridge we have mentioned, which served to protect the outer gateway164 of the Castle of Kenilworth.
Under such disastrous165 circumstances, and in such singular company, did the unfortunate Countess of Leicester approach, for the first time, the magnificent abode166 of her almost princely husband.
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urchin
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acorns
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extremity
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disastrous
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abode
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