CHAPTER XII
Y-Robed in Russet
"Is naught to do," said Calote. "My life is like an empty house."
And if her father admonished her that she fill it, she answered him: "I am too poor. My richesse is spent."
So the summer waned, and Richard's red vengeance began to pale. The people and the King alike sickened of blood. Here and there a man was pardoned. Those two aldermen that bade the peasants come into London by the Bridge and Ald Gate in June were let go free.
"If thou canst come at the King, he will surely set free Stephen Fitzwarine," urged Will. "'Steadfast' is never Richard's watchword, natheless he doth not willingly harm his friends. He 'll do them kindness in secret, if he may not openly."
"How may I endure to live out the length of my days to my life's end?" sighed Calote. "Is naught to do."
Nevertheless, about this time she began to be seen about the gates of the Palace at Westminster, and craved leave to enter; but the guards made mock of her and drove her away. As oft as thrice in the week they did this, but she came again.
One day, 't was October's end and presently Parliament would be met together at Westminster, Calote stood on London Bridge, on the drawbridge, and saw a barge come down Thames. And when the barge was rowed beneath the drawbridge, Calote looked down, and the King sat therein with madame his mother, and certain lords and ladies of the court. One of these was Godiyeva.
The folk on the bridge peered over, and there was muttering, for the people no longer loved the King.
"Goeth to Tower for a night and a day to discover what prisoners be harboured therein and to consider their case," said one, and spat in the water.
Calote turned about and ran back to London, and so on to the Tower gate. An hour she waited, and then came forth Stephen's gaoler.
"Nay, I will bear no more messages to prisoners," said that man very rough, when she had caught his arm. "The King 's within. There 'll be a lopping of heads, and mine own wags very loose o' my neck."
"To no prisoner, good brother," pleaded Calote, "but to a fair lady; Godiyeva 's her name, madame's waiting-woman."
The gaoler grunted, and stood uncertain.
"Do but say this,--there 's a jongleuse craveth speech of her, a jongleuse that served her once."
He grunted yet more loud and went within.
After a little while he came again and a page with him, who led Calote across the outer and inner ward to the keep, and so by narrow ways and steep stairs to a turret chamber where sat the Lady Godiyeva.
"Lady," said Calote, "hast thou forgot one night in Yorkshire, at thy manor-house?"
"Mine old father is dead," Godiyeva answered, "and Eleyne, my sister, is lady o' the manor,--but I have not forgot."
"Lady,--Madame Godiyeva, I would come at King Richard. Have a boon to crave, a token to deliver."
Godiyeva bent her eyes, thoughtful, stern, upon the maid: "A token to deliver?" quoth she. "In Yorkshire thou didst wear a dagger, I saw 't, that night."
"Dost fear I 'll kill the King?" Calote smiled, very sad. "Nay,--here 's the dagger; keep it!"
"'T is Master Fitzwarine's crest," said Godiyeva.
"Ay, lady, he 's my love!--Lies low in dungeon. Here 's my boon."
"This is a strange matter," mused Godiyeva, "for that Etienne Fitzwarine is esquire and very parfait gentleman, in all the court was none so true of his word, and so courteous to ladies. But this is a common wench, a jongleuse.--Natheless, I heard him how he said, 'This damosel is promised to be my wedded wife.'--Come, I 'll pay my debt!"
Behind the arras of a little door they stood and listened. There was no sound. Then Godiyeva put her eye to the edge of the arras.
"He is alone," she said. "Go in!"
Richard stood in a window. He held a little picture in his hand, and looked on it smiling. Calote, barefoot, stepped noiseless over the floor. Godiyeva, behind the arras, coughed.
"Coeur de joie!" cried Richard, staring. But when he saw who it was that knelt, gold-haired, before him, he went white and covered his eyes.
"I would forget!" he said, "I would forget! 'T is overpast!--Shall a king never think on joyful things? Ah, give me leave to tune my thoughts to love! These six months past I 've hearkened to hatred. Was never king so meek. But now there 's a marriage toward. Wilt thou have me think on murders,--and I take a wife in January?"
"Nay,--not on murders, sire,--on pardon and peace."
His moody face cleared slow,--"Is 't an omen?" he questioned, and, stretching forth his hand with the picture, "See! here 's the lady shall be Queen of England one day,--and queens are merciful. There 's a tale of my grandmother, Philippa, how she saved the burgesses of Calais,--and they were six. Here 's but only one, and he was my childhood's friend.--She hath a wondrous pleading eye,--my lady.--'T is an omen." He went to a table and wrote somewhat on a parchment; then clapped his hands, and to the page that entered, said:--
"Bear this hastily to the warden of the Tower."
"Gramerci! Sire!" whispered Calote, and bowed her head on her knees so that her long hair lay on the ground at the King's feet as 't were a pool of sunshine.
"I ever meant to set him free--when the noblesse had forgot," said Richard huskily. "He must depart in secret, for a little while. And now may I forget murder and turn me to merriment. The Rising 's pricked flat. I will never remember it more."
"And dost thou willingly forget that day the people blessed thee for thy gifts of freedom and grace, sire? Dost thou willingly forget that day thou wast bravest man in England,--and king?"
"Hush!--Hush!" he cried. "Kings may not hearken to truth,--'t is sure confusion."
"Here 's the horn, sire, wherewith I gathered the folk into fellowship." Calote untied the bag that hung from her neck.
"O thou mischief-maker!" said Richard to his hunting-horn. "Thou betrayer unto foolishness! Thou shalt be sold to buy my wedding garment."
But now was the arras pushed aside, and Stephen came in, and his gaoler that grinned very joyous.
Calote heard. And then she had arisen to her feet, and turned her back upon the King. And Stephen kissed her hair, and her two hands that rested on his shoulders; but her face was hid.
"O my love, my lady!" said Stephen. And presently, "'T is a wondrous fair world!"
She lifted her face to speak, but he was waiting for her lips.
The gaoler made a happy clucking noise.
Richard laughed merrily. "Coeur de joie!" quoth he, "but I 'll kiss also!" and he kissed the little picture.
"'T behooves us give thanks to the King," whispered Calote. Her face was hid anew, and she spake to her love's heart that leaped against his courtepy.
Then they two turned them, hand in hand, and the King cried out, "A-a-ah!--How art thou pale!--Etienne!"
Stephen bent his knee: "Sire," he said, "wa-was nothing hid from thee;--thou knewest all th-things ever I did in that Rising. I was true to King Richard."
"This is thy sword, Etienne," quoth the King. "These many months it hath hung at my side. Take it again!"
Stephen looked on the sword, sombre, slow. "My forefathers, they were men of might," he said. "There were three died in the Holy Land doing battle with the Paynim. The Scots slew my grandfather in fair fight. My father fell in France, in the last Edward's quarrel. Next after England, the King, and my lady, I have loved my sword."
He stretched forth his hands and took it. "Oh, thou bright blade, what hosts of infidels and dastard French, what enemies to Truth and Richard, methought I 'd slay! And thou hast drunk the blood of one man only, a dead man, that gave his life for England's sake and the people. Thou wert maiden, and they dishonoured thee."
And Stephen had snapped his sword in twain across his knee.
"This is the sword that hewed Wat Tyler's head off his body," he said. "I have done with swords. Thy Majesté hath noblesse a plenty to serve thee; 't was proven in June, when Wat Tyler fell. I might not count the sword-thrusts at that time. But of common folk, peasants and labourers, there is a dearth in England. And wherefore this is so, none knoweth better than thou, sire."
Richard stirred, restless: "'T is the old Etienne, was never afeared to find fault with his king," said he, and would have made a jest of this matter, but laughter came not at his bidding.
"Thou hast need of loyal labourers, sire. So will I serve thee. If Saint Francis set his hands to labour, so may Stephen Fitzwarine, and withouten shame."
"By the Rood!" cried Richard. "Thou art lord of a manor;--born into this condition. These things be beyond man to change. They are appointed of High God."
"Natheless, God helping me, these things shall be changed, sire. Presently, o' my manor, mayst thou see a-many free labourers tilling each man his own field. And Stephen Fitzwarine shall be one."
"Thou 'rt mad!" screamed the King. "Dungeon hath darkened thy wits."
"So methought, sire," said the gaoler, "but hath more wits than most,--hath not turned a hair."
"Now, by Saint Thomas of Canterbury!" Richard shouted, "I--I--nay,--I 've signed thy pardon,--I 'll keep faith,--this once."
Then his humour changed and he began to laugh very loud:--
"Go free! Turn peasant an thou wilt! But as concerning thy land, King Richard is God's anointed, shall look to his stewardship. I will keep custom for Christ's sake. Wherefore is thy manor confiscate, and the villeins that dwell thereon, to the King."--He set his lips in a grim smile: "Who saith Richard is not a good provisor, against his wedding day?"
The gaoler pushed Stephen and Calote out of the room and down the stair:--
"Best begone," quoth he, "hath been known to change his mind," and he shut them out by a postern.
They went and sat on the side of Saint Catherine's Hill that looked on Thames. A long while they sat there, holding each other's hand, smiling each into other's eyes, saying little. But Stephen said:--
"Thou 'rt mine!"
And Calote said:--
"Methought this love was not for me!"
Her feet were bare, her kirtle frayed, and all their worldly goods was a penny the gaoler had thrust in Stephen's hand. Stephen laughed, and tossed the penny and caught it on the back of his hand. Then Calote laughed also, and said she, shaking her head and smiling:--
"'T is not true that failure lieth in wait all along life's way?" and a question grew in her eyes, and the smile faded.
He kissed her gray eyes where the shadows hovered:--
"What 's to fail?" quoth he.
"So saith my father," she made answer. "Yet meseems I must ever see the Archbishop's head above London Bridge,--and next day Wat's. Was not this failure?"
"Sweet heart," said Stephen, "I have been in prison a many months, and concerning éternité I have learned a little. W-Wat Tyler failed to be King of England. But thou and I, and those others, we did not arise up to make W-Wat Tyler king. Dost believe there liveth to-day a villein in England ho-ho-holdeth 't is righteous a man shall be bond-servant to another against his own will? Thou mayst scourge a man to silence,--but he 'll think his thought;--yea, and wh-whisper it to 's children.--We did not fail."
Then Stephen took his love's face betwixt his hands, and kissed her brow and eyes and lips:--
"I had a dream that I should dress thee in silk, pearl-broidered, and a veil of silver. But now am I a landless man; must labour with my two hands for daily bread. Natheless, am I tied to no man's manor,--may sell my labour where I will. D-dost sigh for the dream, sweet heart, and to be called Madame? Be advised in time,--a man 's ofttimes endurable if his infirmity 's shrouded in good Flemish broadcloth, but if he be naked as a needle, then must he be a man indeed--to pass."
"Now, prythee, how is 't honour to a maid if her lord lift her up to his estate?" said Calote. "But if he condescend and clothe him in her coat-armour, then is she honoured in vérité."
"In Yorkshire, mayhap I 'll find shepherding with Diggon. Wilt go thither?" Stephen asked her.
And when she had answered him Yea, he laughed soft, and sang:--
"Then I 'll put off my silken coat, And all my garments gay. Lend me thy ragged russet gown, For that 's my best array. Ohé! For that's my best array."
EPILOGUE
"Love is leche of lyf."
_The Vision Concerning Piers Plowman._ B. PASSUS I.
EPILOGUE
In the cloister of Malvern Priory schoolboys hummed and buzzed. The sick man heard them.
"I have had a vision," he said, "I must sing it." And after: "Nay,--I had forgot. 'T was long ago."
He lay on a pallet in the midst of the cloister garth, close by the sun-dial. At dusk of the day past he had knocked at the gate and fallen in the arms of the porter. All night a brother watched beside him, and after Lauds the prior came to the door of the cell.
"'T is not the Black Death, or such-like malady?" he queried.
"Nay, Father, but a bodily weakness only. Hath scaped the dawn, but I doubt not his spirit will flit at sunset."
"A friar?" 'T would seem as the word stank in the nostrils of the good Father.
"Nay,--a clerk,--belike a priest secular."
"A Wyclifite preacher?" the prior questioned sharply. "We may not harbour these Worcester Lollards."
"Hath a breviary, with prayers for the dead well thumbed. Likewise a parchment. 'T is here."
The prior unrolled the parchment beneath the window. The sky was a-flush with the coming up of the sun.
"Nay," quoth he presently, "'t is naught harmful. A poem."
The brother was peering over his prior's shoulder:--
"Here 's Holy Writ," said he.
"In Latin, brother, as is meet."
"'T is very bad Latin," the brother made answer.
The sick man spoke: "I will go up on the Hills," said he, "the Malvern Hills," and he made as to rise; but this he might not do.
The brother gave him to drink, and wiped the sweat from his brow.
"Here 's an exhortation to King Richard II.," said the prior at the window. "But Richard 's dead."
"Ay," spake the sick man. "Death and Dishonour ran a race for Richard. Dishonour caught him first, but Death hath finished him. Mine exhortation came too late, wherefore I broke off in the midst. I was ever too late or too early, all my life long."
The prior came to the bed.
"I will go up on the Hills," said the man, and sat upright, but immediately a faintness seized him and he swooned.
"Two-score and ten year, sayst thou?" quoth the prior. "Haply Brother Owyn will know him."
When the sick man was come out of his swoon he said again, "I will go a-wandering on the Malvern Hills. Let me forth,--the Hills. 'T is dark,--let me forth to the sun.--Dost mind how I said, 'The prior of Malvern shall not clap me in cloister'?--I am come home to the Hills."
"Let him be borne into the cloister garth," said the prior. "There may he fresh him in the sun."
At noon, when there was no shadow on the face of the sun-dial, Brother Owyn came hobbling slow over the grass betwixt two young monks that guided his steps. For Brother Owyn was very old and bent and blind. He had a beard like a snowdrift.
"Two-score and ten year," he mumbled, "and a poet, sayst 'ou?"
They sat him down beside the sick man's pallet, and one brought a cushion for his feet, and the other drew his hood over his head, lest the wind harm him,--howbeit 't was June. Then they went away and left him with the stranger.
"Two-score and ten year," said the old man, "and 't is as yesterday.--I go forth a pilgrimage to Truth, said he,--I have had a vision concerning Peter the Ploughman."
The sick man opened his eyes. "The ploughman knoweth the way to Truth," quoth he.
Brother Owyn lifted up his face to the sunlight, as he were listening:--
"Will Langland, art thou there?" he asked.
At the sound of his own name the sick man's wandering wits came back. He was 'ware of the old monk beside him.
"Thou canst not see?" he questioned.
"Nay, I do see very clear," said Brother Owyn, in that high, protesting voice of age. "I see a river, shineth as the sun, and on the farther side my daughter awaiteth me.--Her locks shine as bright pure gold,--loose on her shoulders so softly they lie."
"My daughter hath likewise golden hair," murmured Long Will, "and my granddaughter."
"The Lord, the King of Heaven, hath ta'en my daughter, my pearl, to be his bride," said the old man. He held his head upright, very proud, but then it began to shake and shake, till it dropped again, and his chin was sunk in his breast.
"My daughter is wife to truest man in England; might have been courtier to the King; but he 's a shepherd in Yorkshire,--and his son 's a shepherd. They be free labourers, no villeins," cried Will.
One in the cloister heard him and came running.
"Ay," assented Brother Owyn, his head ever a-nod, "the King's Son of Heaven, he is the Good Shepherd."
The other monk poured wine between the sick man's white lips and smoothed his pillow. Then he drew aside Brother Owyn's cowl and shouted in his ear, "Dost know him, brother, dost remember him?"
"Hath a daughter," the old man answered, "but so have I. Her name 's Margaret,--which is to mean a pearl."
"Calote is my daughter called," the sick man made known very clear.
The young monk shrugged his shoulders and went back to the cloister.
After a little while Brother Owyn spoke:--
"Will Langland had a daughter called Calote. She stood t' other side the brook, and the light o' the sun blinded mine eyen. Methought 't was mine own daughter come to take me home. I mind it as 't were yesterday. 'In the city where the wall is jasper and the gates are twelve pearls,' quoth she, 'will there be any villeins to labour while other men feast?' I mind it as 't were yesterday."
"I am Will Langland," said the sick man.
"Yea, thou art he," returned the old monk. "I had forgot."
A little while they slept in the sun, but betwixt the hours of sext and nones, Will moved his head on his pillow:--
"If any goeth into Yorkshire, I would have him seek out Stephen Fitzwarine, and Calote his wife, and say to them that Will Langland hath gone home to the Hills of Malvern for a little space. They would have had me stay. My daughter wept when she bade good-by, and the babe on her arm held me by my hair.--All 's not failure,--brother."
The old man dozed and did not hear him.
"She stood in her cottage doorway,--my daughter,--and the wolds stretching far like the billows of the sea. But they 're not the Hills of Malvern.
"'We 'll watch for thee, father,' she said, 'bide not long away. Here 's thy corner by the fireside. Here 's home.'--But I was born in the Malvern Hills, my daughter.
"Stephen saw me as I crossed the wold.--He stood in the midst of his flock; and young Will ran and gave me his shepherd's crook,--'Thou hast no staff, gran'ther,' he said, 'I 'll fashion me another.' 'T was early morn,--springtime. But I 've come back to Malvern--for a little"--
"Here is a safe refuge for them that wait," the old man answered.
Long Will moved his head, restless. "But I may not wait long," he said, "I go forth a pilgrimage to Truth, that dwelleth in the Kingdom of Rightwisnesse."
"My daughter dwelleth therein,--I prythee tell her I 'm an old man now. I am fain to cross the river."
"I will," said the sick man.
So they were silent until the setting of the sun. Then said Long Will out aloud:--
"By Christ--I will become a pilgrim, And wander as wide as the world reaches, To seek Piers the Ploughman that Pride might destroy-- ... Now Kynde me avenge, And send me success and salvation till I have Piers Ploughman."
So, after the sun was set, that other brother came forth, and the prior.
"Said I not so, that he would be gone about now?" quoth the brother.
"Yea," smiled Brother Owyn. "Hath gone on pilgrimage. This long-legged lad 's more than he seems. Prythee let him go, prior. He 's a poet,--will one day bring honour to Malvern Priory."
MADE AT THE TEMPLE PRESS LETCHWORTH IN GREAT BRITAIN
EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY
A LIST OF THE 896 VOLUMES ARRANGED UNDER AUTHORS
_Anonymous works are given under titles. Anthologies, Dictionaries, etc. are arranged at the end of the list._
Abbott's Rollo at Work, etc., 275
Addison's Spectator, 164-7
Æschylus's Lyrical Dramas, 62
Æsop's and Other Fables, 657
Aimard's The Indian Scout, 428
Ainsworth's Tower of London, 400 " Old St. Paul's, 522 " Windsor Castle, 709 " The Admirable Crichton, 894 " Rookwood, 870
A Kempis's Imitation of Christ, 484
Alcott's Little Women, and Good Wives, 248 " Little Men, 512
Alpine Club: Peaks, Passes and Glaciers, 778
Andersen's Fairy Tales, 4 " More Fairy Tales, 822
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 624
Anson's Voyages, 510
Aristophanes' Acharnians, etc., 344 " Frogs, etc., 516
Aristotle's Nicomachaen Ethics, 547 " Politics, 605
Armour's Fall of the Nibelungs, 312 " Gudrun, 880
Arnold's (Matthew) Essays, 115 " Poems, 334 " Study of Celtic Literature, etc., 458
Aucassin and Nicolette, 497
Augustine's (Saint) Confessions, 200
Aurelius's (Marcus) Meditations, 9
Austen's (Jane) Sense and Sensibility, 21 " Pride and Prejudice, 22 " Mansfield Park, 23 " Emma, 24 " Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion, 25
Bacon's Essays, 10 " Advancement of Learning, 719
Bagehot's Literary Studies, 520, 521
Baker's (Sir S. W.) Cast up by the Sea, 539
Ballantyne's Coral Island, 245 " Martin Rattier, 246 " Ungava, 276
Balzac's Wild Ass's Skin, 26 " Eugénie Grandet, 169 " Old Goriot, 170 " Atheist's Mass, etc., 229 " Christ in Flanders, etc., 284 " The Chouans, 285 " Quest of the Absolute, 286 " Cat and Rachet, etc., 349 " Catherine de Medici, 419 " Cousin Pons, 463 " The Country Doctor, 530 " Rise and Fall of César Birotteau, 596 " Lost Illusions, 656 " The Country Parson, 686 " Ursule Mirouet, 733
Barbusse's Under Fire, 798
Barca's (Mme C. de la) Life in Mexico, 664
Baxter's (Richard) Autobiography, 868
Bates's Naturalist on the Amazon, 446
Beaumont and Fletcher's Selected Plays, 506
Beaumont's (Mary) Joan Seaton, 597
Bede's Ecclesiastical History, 479
Belt's Naturalist in Nicaragua, 561
Berkeley's (Bishop) Principles of Human Knowledge, New Theory of Vision, etc., 483
Berlioz (Hector), Life of, 602
Binns's Life of Abraham Lincoln, 783
Björnson's Plays, 625, 696
Blackmore's Lorna Doone, 304 " Springhaven, 350
Blackwell's Pioneer Work for Women, 667
Blake's Poems and Prophecies, 792
Boccaccio's Decameron, 845, 846
Boehme's The Signature of All Things, etc., 569
Bonaventura's The Little Flowers, The Life of St. Francis, etc., 485
Borrow's Wild Wales, 49 " Lavengro, 119 " Romany Rye, 120 " Bible in Spain, 151 " Gypsies in Spain, 697
Boswell's Life of Johnson, 1, 2 " Tour to the Hebrides, 387
Boult's Asgard and Norse Heroes, 689
Boyle's The Sceptical Chymist, 559
Bright's (John) Speeches, 252
Brontë's (A.) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and Agnes Grey, 685
Brontë's (C.) Jane Eyre, 287 " Shirley, 288 " Villette, 351 " The Professor, 417
Brontë's (E.) Wuthering Heights, 243
Brown's (Dr. John) Rab and His Friends, etc., 116
Browne's (Frances) Grannie's Wonderful Chair, 112
Browne's (Sir Thos.) Religio Medici, etc., 92
Browning's Poems, 1833-44, 41 " 1844-64, 42 " The Ring and the Book, 502
Buchanan's Life and Adventures of Audubon, 601
Bulfinch's The Age of Fable, 472 " Legends of Charlemagne, 556
Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, 204 " Grace Abounding, and Mr. Badman, 815
Burke's American Speeches and Letters, 340 " Reflections on the French Revolution, etc., 460
Burnet's History of His Own Times, 85
Burney's Evelina, 352
Burns's Poems and Songs, 94
Burton's East Africa, 500
Burton's (Robert) Anatomy of Melancholy, 886-888
Butler's Analogy of Religion, 90
Butler's (Samuel) Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited, 881
Butler's The Way of All Flesh, 895
Buxton's Memoirs, 773
Byron's Complete Poetical and Dramatic Works, 486-8
Cæsar's Gallic War, etc., 702
Calderon's Plays, 819
Canton's Child's Book of Saints, 61
Canton's Invisible Playmate, etc., 566
Carlyle's French Revolution, 31, 32 " Letters, etc., of Cromwell, 266-8 " Sartor Resartus, 278 " Past and Present, 608 " Essays, 703, 704 " Reminiscences, 875
Carroll's (Lewis) Alice in Wonderland, etc., 836
Castiglione's The Courtier, 807
Cellini's Autobiography, 51
Cervantes' Don Quixote, 385, 386
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, 307
Chesterfield's Letters to his Son, 823
Chrétien de Troyes's Arthurian Romances, 698
Cibber's Apology for his Life, 668
Cicero's Select Letters and Orations, 345
Clarke's Tales from Chaucer, 537 " Shakespeare's Heroines, 109-11
Cobbett's Rural Rides, 638, 639
Coleridge's Biographia, 11 " Golden Book of Poetry, 43 " Lectures on Shakspeare, 162
Collins's Woman in White, 464
Collodi's Pinocchio, 538
Converse's Long Will, 328
Cook's (Captain) Voyages, 99
Cooper's The Deerslayer, 77 " The Pathfinder, 78 " Last of the Mohicans, 79 " The Pioneer, 171 " The Prairie, 172
Cowper's Letters. 774 " Poems, 872
Cox's Tales of Ancient Greece, 721
Craik's Manual of English Literature, 346
Craik (Mrs.). _See_ Mulock.
Creasy's Fifteen Decisive Battles, 300
Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer, 640
Curtis's Prue and I, and Lotus, 418
Dana's Two Years Before the Mast, 588
Dante's Divine Comedy, 308
Darwin's Origin of Species, 811 " Voyage of the Beagle, 104
Dasent's Story of Burnt Njal, 558
Daudet's Tartarin of Tarascon, 423
Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, 59 " Captain Singleton, 74 " Memoirs of a Cavalier, 283 " Journal of Plague, 289 " Tour through England and Wales, 820, 821 " Moll Flanders, 837
De Joinville's Memoirs of the Crusades, 333
Demosthenes' Select Orations, 546
Dennis's Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria, 183. 184
De Quincey's Lake Poets, 163 " Opium-Eater, 223 " English Mail Coach, etc., 609
De Retz (Cardinal), Memoirs of, 735, 736
Descartes' Discourse on Method, 570
Dickens's Barnaby Rudge, 76 " Tale of Two Cities, 102 " Old Curiosity Shop, 173 " Oliver Twist, 233 " Great Expectations, 234 " Pickwick Papers, 235 " Bleak House, 236 " Sketches by Boz, 237 " Nicholas Nickleby, 238 " Christmas Books, 239 " Dombey and Son, 240 " Martin Chuzzlewit, 241 " David Copperfield, 242 " American Notes, 290 " Child's History of England, 291 " Hard Times, 292 " Little Dorrit, 293 " Our Mutual Friend, 294 " Christmas Stories, 414 " Uncommercial Traveller, 536 " Edwin Drood, 725 " Reprinted Pieces, 744
Disraeli's Coningsby, 535
Dodge's Hans Brinker, 620
Donne's Poems, 867
Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, 501 " The House of the Dead, 533 " Letters from the Underworld, etc., 654 " The Idiot, 682 " Poor Folk, and the Gambler, 711 " The Possessed, 861, 862 " The Brothers Karamazov, 802, 803
Dowden's Life of R. Browning, 701
Dryden's Dramatic Essays. 568
Dufferin's Letters from High Latitudes, 499
Dumas' The Three Musketeers, 81 " The Black Tulip, 174 " Twenty Years After, 175 " Marguerite de Valois, 326 " The Count of Monte Cristo, 393 394 " The Forty-Five, 420 " Chicot the Jester, 421 " Vicomte de Bragelonne, 593-5 " Le Chevalier de Maison Rouge, 614
Du Maurier's Trilby, 863
Duruy's Heroes of England, 471 " History of France, 737, 738
Edgar's Cressy and Poictiers, 17 " Runnymede and Lincoln Fair, 320
Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent, etc., 410
Eighteenth-Century Plays, 818
Eliot's Adam Bede, 27 " Silas Marner, 121 " Romola, 231 " Mill on the Floss, 325 " Felix Holt, 353 " Scenes of Clerical Life, 468 " Middlemarch, 2 vols., 854-5
Elyot's Gouernour, 227
Emerson's Essays, 12 " Representative Men, 279 " Nature, Conduct of Life, etc., 322 " Society and Solitude, etc., 567 " Poems, 715
Epictetus's Moral Discourses, 404
Erckmann-Chatrian's The Conscript and Waterloo, 354 " Story of a Peasant, 706, 707
Euclid's Elements, 891
Euripides' Plays, 63, 271
Evans's Holy Graal, 445
Evelyn's Diary, 220, 221
Everyman and other Interludes, 381
Ewing's (Mrs.) Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances, etc., 730 " Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot, and The Story of a Short Life, 731
Faraday's Experimental Researches in Electricity, 576
Ferrier's (Susan) Marriage, 816
Fielding's Amelia, 2 vols., 852-3 " Tom Jones, 355, 356 " Joseph Andrews, 467 " Jonathan Wild and the Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, 877
Finlay's Byzantine Empire, 33 " Greece under the Romans, 185
Flaubert's Madame Bovary, 808 " Salammbo, 869
Fletcher's (Beaumont and) Selected Plays, 506
Ford's Gatherings from Spain, 152
Forster's Life of Dickens, 781, 782
Fox's (George) Journal, 754
Fox's (Charles James) Selected Speeches, 759
Francis's (Saint), The Little Flowers, etc., 485
Franklin's Journey to the Polar Sea, 447
Freeman's Old English History for Children, 540
French Mediaeval Romances, 557
Froissart's Chronicles, 57
Froude's Short Studies, 13, 705 " Henry VIII., 372-4
Froude's Edward VI, 375 " Mary Tudor, 477 " History of Queen Elizabeth's Reign, 583-7 " Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Beaconsfield, 666
Galt's Annals of the Parish, 427
Galton's Inquiries into Human Faculty, 263
Gaskell's Cranford, 83 " Life of Charlotte Brontë, 318 " Sylvia's Lovers, 524 " Mary Barton, 598 " Cousin Phillis, etc., 615 " North and South, 680
Gatty's Parables from Nature, 158
Geoffrey of Monmouth's Histories of the Kings of Britain, 577
George's Progress and Poverty, 560
Gibbon's Roman Empire, 434-6, 474-6 " Autobiography, 511
Gilfillan's Literary Portraits, 348
Giraldus Cambrensis, Wales, 272
Gleig's Life of Wellington, 341 " The Subaltern, 708
Goethe's Conversations with Eckermann, 851 " Faust, 335 " Wilhelm Meister, 599, 600
Gogol's Dead Souls, 726 " Taras Bulba, 740
Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, 295 " Poems and Plays, 415
Goncharov's Oblomov, 878
Gorki's Through Russia, 741
Gotthelf's Ulric the Farm Servant, 228
Gray's Poems and Letters, 628
Green's Short History of the English People, 727, 728. The cloth edition is in 2 vols. All other editions are in 1 vol.
Grettir Saga, 699
Grimm's Fairy Tales, 56
Grote's History of Greece, 186-197
Guest's (Lady) Mabinogion, 97
Hahnemann's The Organon of the Rational Art of Healing, 663
Hakluyt's Voyages, 264, 265, 313, 314, 338, 339, 388, 389
Hallam's Constitutional History, 621-3
Hamilton's The Federalist, 519
Harte's Luck of Roaring Camp, 681
Harvey's Circulation of Blood, 262
Hawthorne's Wonder Book, 5 " The Scarlet Letter, 122
Hawthorne's House of Seven Gables, 176 " The Marble Faun, 424 " Twice Told Tales, 531 " Blithedale Romance, 592
Hazlitt's Characters of Shakespeare's Plays, 65 " Table Talk, 321 " Lectures, 411 " Spirit of the Age and Lectures on English Poets, 459 " Plain Speaker, 814
Hebbel's Plays, 694
Heimskringla: the Olaf Sagas, 717 " Sagas of the Norse Kings, 847
Helps' (Sir Arthur) Life of Columbus, 332
Herbert's Temple, 309
Herodotus, 405, 406
Herrick's Hesperides, 310
Hobbes's Leviathan, 691
Holinshed's Chronicle, 800
Holmes's Life of Mozart, 564
Holmes's (O. W.) Autocrat, 66 " Professor, 67 " Poet, 68
Homer's Iliad, 453 " Odyssey, 454
Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity, 201, 202
Horace's Complete Poetical Works, 515
Houghton's Life and Letters of Keats, 801
Howard's (E.), Rattlin the Reefer, 857
Howard's (John) State of the Prisons, 835
Hughes's Tom Brown's Schooldays, 58
Hugo's (Victor) Les Misérables, 363, 364 " Notre Dame, 422 " Toilers of the Sea, 509
Hume's Treatise of Human Nature, etc., 548, 549
Hunt's (Leigh) Selected Essays, 829
Hutchinson's (Col.) Memoirs, 317
Huxley's Man's Place in Nature, 47 " Select Lectures and Lay Sermons, 498
Ibsen's The Doll's House, etc., 494 " Ghosts, etc., 552 " Pretender, Pillars of Society Rosmersholm, 659 " Brand, 716 " Lady Inger, etc., 729 " Peer Gynt, 747
Ingelow's Mopsa the Fairy, 619
Irving's Sketch Book, 117 " Conquest of Granada, 478; " Life of Mahomet, 513
Italian Short Stories, 876
James's (G. P. R.) Richelieu, 357
James (Wm.), Selections from, 739
Jefferies' (Richard) Bevis, 850
Johnson's (Dr.) Lives of the Poets, 770-1
Jonson's (Ben) Plays. 489, 490
Josephus's Wars of the Jews, 712
Kalidasa's Shakuntala, 629
Keats's Poems, 101
Keble's Christian Year, 690
King's Life of Mazzini, 562
Kinglake's Eothen, 337
Kingsley's (Chas.) Westward Ho!, 20 " Heroes, 113 " Hypatia, 230 " Water Babies, and Glaueus, 277 " Hereward the Wake, 206 " Alton Locke, 462 " Yeast, 611 " Madam How and Lady Why, 777 " Poems, 793
Kingsley's (Henry) Ravenshoe, 28 " Geoffrey Hamlyn, 416
Kingston's Peter the Whaler, 6 " Three Midshipmen, 7
Kirby's Kalevala, 259-60
Koran, 380
Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare, 8 " Essays of Elia, 14 " Letters, 342, 343
Landor's Imaginary Conversations and Poems, 890
Lane's Modern Egyptians, 315
Langland's Piers Plowman, 571
Latimer's Sermons, 40
Law's Serious Call, 91
Layamon's (Wace and) Arthurian Chronicles, 578
Lear (Edward). _See under_ Anthologies
Le Sage's Gil Blas, 437, 438
Leslie's Memoirs of John Constable, 563
Lessing's Laocoön, etc., 843
Lever's Harry Lorrequer, 177
Lewes' Life of Goethe, 269
Lincoln's Speeches, etc., 206
Livy's History of Rome, 603, 609 670, 749, 755, 756
Locke's Civil Government, 751
Lockhart's Life of Napoleon, 3 " Life of Scott, 55 " Life of Burns, 156
Longfellow's Poems, 382
Lönnrott's Kalevala, 259, 260
Lover's Handy Andy, 178
Lowell's Among My Books, 607
Lucretius's Of the Nature of Things, 750
Lützow's History of Bohemia, 432
Lyell's Antiquity of Man, 700
Lytton's Harold, 15 " Last of the Barons, 18 " Last Days of Pompeii, 80 " Pilgrims of the Rhine, 390 " Rienzi, 532
Macaulay's England, 34-6 " Essays, 225, 226 " Speeches on Politics, etc., 399 " Miscellaneous Essays, 439
MacDonald's Sir Gibbie, 678 " Phantastes, 732
Machiavelli's Prince, 280 " Florence, 376
Maine's Ancient Law, 734
Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur. 45, 46
Malthus on the Principles of Population, 692, 693
Mandeville's Travels, 812
Manning's Sir Thomas More, 19 " Mary Powell, and Deborah's Diary, 324
Marlowe's Plays and Poems, 383
Marryat's Mr. Midshipman Easy, 82 " Little Savage, 159 " Masterman Ready, 160 " Peter Simple, 232 " Children of New Forest, 247 " Percival Keene, 358 " Settlers in Canada, 370 " King's Own, 580 " Jacob Faithful, 618
Martinean's Feats on the Fjords, 429
Martinengo-Cesaresco's Folk-Lore and other Essays, 673
Marx's Capital, 848, 849
Maurice's Kingdom of Christ, 146-7
Mazzinl's Duties of Man, etc., 224
Melville's Moby Dick, 179 " Typee, 180 " Omoo, 297
Mérimée's Carmen, etc., 834
Merivale's History of Rome, 433
Mickiewicz's Pan Tadeusz, 842
Mignet's French Revolution, 713
Mill's Utilitarianism, Liberty, Representative Government, 482 " Rights of Woman, 825
Miller's Old Red Sandstone, 103
Milman's History of the Jews, 377, 378
Milton's Areopagitica and other Prose Works, 795 " Poems, 384
Molière's Comedies, 830-1
Mommsen's History of Rome, 542-5
Montagu's (Lady) Letters, 69
Montaigne's Essays, 440-2
More's Utopia, and Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation, 461
Morier's Hajji Baba, 679
Morris's (Wm.) Early Romances, 261 " Life and Death of Jason, 575
Morte D'Arthur Romances, 634
Motley's Dutch Republic, 86-8
Mulock's John Halifax, 123
Neale's Fall of Constantinople, 655
Newcastle's (Margaret, Duchess of) Life of the First Duke of Newcastle, etc., 722
Newman's Apologia Pro Vita Sua, 636 " On the Scope and Nature of University Education, and a Paper on Christianity and Scientific Investigation, 723
Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra, 892
Oliphant's Salem Chapel, 244
Omar Khayyam, 819
Osborne (Dorothy), Letters of, 674
Owen's (Robert) A New View of Society, etc., 799
Paine's Rights of Man, 718
Palgrave's Golden Treasury, 96
Paltock's Peter Wilkins, 673
Park's (Mungo) Travels, 205
Parkman's Conspiracy of Pontiac, 302, 303
Pascall's Pensees, 874
Paston Letters, 752, 753
Peacock's Headlong Hall, 327
Penn's The Peace of Europe, Some Fruits of Solitude, etc., 724
Pepys's Diary, 53, 54
Percy's Reliques, 148, 149
Pitt's Orations, 145
Plato's Republic, 64 " Dialogues, 456, 457
Plutarch's Lives, 407-409 " Moralia, 565
Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination, 336 " Poems and Essays. 791
Polo's (Marco) Travels, 306
Pope's Complete Poetical Works, 760
Prescott's Conquest of Peru, 301 " Conquest of Mexico, 397, 398
Prévost's Manon Lescaut, etc., 834
Procter's Legends and Lyrics, 150
Quiller-Couch's Hetty Wesley, 864
Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel, 26, 827
Radcliffe's (Mrs. Ann) The Mysteries of Udolpho, 865, 866
Ramayana and Mahabharata, 403
Reade's The Cloister and the Hearth, 29 " Peg Woffington, 299
Reid's (Mayne) Boy Hunters of the Mississippi, 582 " The Boy Slaves, 797
Renan's Life of Jesus, 805
Reynold's Discourses, 118
Ricardo's Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, 590
Richardson's Pamela, 683, 684 " Clarissa, 882-5
Roberts' (Morley) Western Avernus, 762
Robertson's Religion and Life, 37 " Christian Doctrine, 38 " Bible Subjects, 39
Robinson's (Wade) Sermons, 637
Roget's Thesaurus, 630, 631
Rossetti's (D. G.) Poems, 627
Rousseau's Confessions, 859, 860 " Emile, 518 " Social Contract and other Essays, 660
Ruskin's Seven Lamps of Architecture, 207 " Modern Painters, 208-212 " Stones of Venice, 213-215 " Unto this Last, etc., 216 " Elements of Drawing, etc., 217 " Pre-Raphaelitism, etc., 218 " Sesame and Lilies, 219 " Ethics of the Dust, 282 " Crown of Wild Olive, and Cestus of Aglaia, 323 " Time and Tide, etc., 450 " The Two Boyhoods, 683
Russell's Life of Gladstone, 661
Sand's (George) The Devil's Pool, and François the Waif, 534
Scheffel's Ekkehard, 529
Scott's (M.) Tom Cringle's Log, 710
Scott's (Sir W.) Ivanhoe, 16 " Fortunes of Nigel, 71 " Woodstock, 72 " Waverley, 75 " The Abbot, 124 " Anne of Geierstein, 125 " The Antiquary, 126 " Highland Widow, and Betrothed, 127 " Black Dwarf, Legend of Montrose, 128 " Bride of Lammermoor, 129 " Castle Dangerous, Surgeon's Daughter, 130 " Robert of Paris, 131 " Fair Maid of Perth, 132 " Guy Mannering, 133 " Heart of Midlothian, 134 " Kenilworth, 135 " The Monastery, 136 " Old Mortality, 137 " Peveril of the Peak, 138 " The Pirate, 139 " Quentin Durward, 140 " Redgauntlet, 141 " Rob Roy, 142 " St. Ronan's Well, 143 " The Talisman, 144 " Lives of the Novelists, 331 " Poems and Plays, 550, 551
Seebohm's Oxford Reformers, 665
Seeley's Ecce Homo, 305
Sienkiewiez's Tales, 871
Sewell's (Anna) Black Beauty, 748
Shakespeare's Comedies, 153 " Histories, etc., 154 " Tragedies, 155
Shelley's Poetical Works, 257, 258
Shelley's (Mrs.) Frankenstein, 616 " Rights of Women, 825
Sheppard's Charles Auchester, 505
Sheridan's Plays, 95
Sismondi's Italian Republics, 250
Smeaton's Life of Shakespeare, 514
Smith's Wealth of Nations, 412, 413
Smith's (George) Life of Wm. Carey, 395
Smollett's Roderick Random, 790 " Peregrine Pickle, 838, 839
Sophocles' Dramas, 114
Southey's Life of Nelson, 52
Spectator, 164-7
Speke's Source of the Nile, 50
Spencer's (Herbert) Essays on Education, 503
Spenser's Faerie Queene, 443, 444 " The Shepherd's Calendar, 879
Spinoza's Ethics, etc., 481
Spyri's Heidi, 431
Stanley's Memorials of Canterbury, 89 " Eastern Church, 251
Steele's The Spectator, 164-7
Sterne's Tristram Shandy, 617 " Sentimental Journey and Journal to Eliza, 796
Stevenson's Treasure Island and Kidnapped, 763 " Master of Ballantrae and the Black Arrow, 764 " Virginibus Puerisque and Familiar Studies of Men and Books, 765 " An Inland Voyage, Travels with a Donkey, and Silverado Squatters, 766 " Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Merry Men, etc., 767 " Poems, 768 " In the South Seas and Island Nights' Entertainments, 769
St. Francis, The Little Flowers of, etc., 485
Stow's Survey of London, 589
Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, 371
Strickland's Queen Elizabeth, 100
Surtees' Jorrocks' Jaunts, 817
Swedenborg's Heaven and Hell, 379 " Divine Love and Wisdom, 635 " Divine Providence, 658 " The True Christian Religion, 893
Swift's Gulliver's Travels, 60 " Journal to Stella, 757 " Tale of a Tub, etc., 347
Swiss Family Robinson, 430
Tacitus's Annals, 273 " Agricola and Germania, 274
Taylor's Words and Places, 517
Tennyson's Poems, 44, 626
Thackeray's Esmond, 73 " Vanity Fair, 298 " Christmas Books, 359 " Pendennis, 425, 426 " Newcomes, 465, 466 " The Virginians, 507, 508 " English Humorists, and The Four Georges, 610 " Roundabout Papers, 687
Thierry's Norman Conquest, 198, 199
Thoreau's Walden, 281
Thucydides' Peloponnesian War, 455
Tolstoy's Master and Man, and Other Parables and Tales, 469 " War and Peace, 525-7 " Childhood, Boyhood and Youth, 591 " Anna Karenina, 612, 613
Trench's On the Study of Words and English Past and Present, 788
Trollope's Barchester Towers, 30 " Dr. Thorne, 360 " Framley Parsonage, 181 " Golden Lion of Granpere, 761 " Last Chronicles of Barset, 391, 392 " Phineas Finn, 832-3 " Small House at Allington, 361 " The Warden, 182
Trotter's The Bayard of India, 396 " Hodson of Hodson's Horse, 401 " Warren Hastings, 452
Turgenev's Virgin Soil, 528 " Liza, 677 " Fathers and Sons, 742
Tyndall's Glaciers of the Alps, 98
Tytler's Principles of Translation, 168
Vasari's Lives of the Painters, 784-7
Verne's (Jules) Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, 319 " Dropped from the Clouds, 367 " Abandoned, 368 " The Secret of the Island, 369 " Five Weeks in a Balloon, and Around the World in Eighty Days, 779
Virgil's Æneid, 161 " Eclogues and Georgics, 222
Voltaire's Life of Charles XII, 270 " Age of Louis XIV, 780
Wace and Layamon's Arthurian Chronicles, 578
Wakefield's Letter from Sydney, etc., 828
Walpole's Letters, 775
Walton's Compleat Angler, 70
Waterton's Wanderings in South America, 772
Wesley's Journal, 105-108
White's Selborne, 48
Whitman's Leaves or Grass, and Democratic Vistas, etc., 573
Whyte-Melville's Gladiators, 523
Wilde's Plays, Prose Writings and Poems, 858
Wood's (Mrs. Henry) The Channings, 84
Woolman's Journal, etc., 402
Wordsworth's Shorter Poems, 203 " Longer Poems, 311
Xenophon's Cyropædia, 67
Yellow Book, 503
Yonge's The Dove in the Eagle's Nest, 329 " The Book of Golden Deeds, 330 " The Heir of Redclyffe, 362
Yonge's The Little Duke, 470 " The Lances of Lynwood, 570
Young's (Arthur) Travels in France and Italy, 720
_Anthologies, Dictionaries, etc._:
A Book of English Ballads, 572
A Book of Heroic Verse, 574
A Book of Nonsense, by Edward Lear, and Others, 806
A Century of Essays, An Anthology, 653
American Short Stories of the Nineteenth Century, 840
A New Book of Sense and Nonsense, 813
An Anthology of English Prose: From Bede to Stevenson, 675
An Encyclopædia of Gardening, by Walter P. Wright, 555
Ancient Hebrew Literature, 4 vols., 253-6
Anglo-Saxon Poetry, 794
Annals of Fairyland, 365, 366, 541
Anthology of British Historical Speeches and Orations, 714
Atlas of Classical Geography, 451
Atlases, Literary and Historical: Europe, 496; America, 553; Asia, 633; Africa and Australasia, 662
Dictionary, Biographical, of English Literature, 449 " of Dates, 554 " Everyman's English, 776 " of Non-Classical Mythology, 632 " Smaller Classical, 495 " of Quotations and Proverbs, 809-10
English Short Stories. An Anthology, 743
Fairy Gold, 157
Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights, 249
French Short Stories, 896
Golden Treasury of Longer Poems, 746
Minor Elizabethan Drama, 491, 492
Minor Poets of the Eighteenth Century, 844
Minor Poets of the 17th Century, 873
Mother Goose, 473
Muses' Pageant, The, 581, 606, 671
New Golden Treasury, 695
New Testament, The, 93
A Poetry Book for Boys and Girls, 894
Political Liberty, a Symposium, 745
Prayer Books of King Edward VI. 1st and 2nd, 448
Prelude to Poetry, 789
Reader's Guide to Everyman's Library, by R. Farquharson Sharp and E. Rhys, 889
Restoration Plays, 604
Russian Short Stories, 758
Shorter Novels: Elizabethan, 824 " Jacobean and Restoration, 841 " Eighteenth Century, 856
Theology in the English Poets, 493
Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, Roget's, 630, 631
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Transcriber's Notes:
Punctuation, use of hyphens, and accent marks were standardized. Spaces were retained in contractions of verbs. Obsolete and alternative spellings were not changed.
The following were corrected:
'jolyf' to 'joly' ... I would I were that joly gentil one, ... 'wherefor' to 'wherefore' ... the gold wherefore the people ... 'Thorough' to Through' ... Through parliament doth the King ... duplicate 'the' removed ... Ballantrae and the Black Arrow ...