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THE LIFE AND DEATH OF RICHARD YEA-AND-NAY
BY MAURICE HEWLETT
AUTHOR OF "THE FOREST LOVERS," "LITTLE NOVELS OF ITALY," ETC.
Sì che a bene sperar mi era cagione Di quella fera alla gaietta pelle. _Inf._ i. 41.
NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON; MACMILLAN & CO., LTD. 1901
Set up and electrotyped October, 1900. Reprinted November, December, twice, 1900; January, February, twice, 1901
Norwood Press J.B. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith Norwood Mass. U.S.A.
TO HIS FRIEND EDMUND GOSSE (ALWAYS BENEVOLENT TO HIS INVENTION)
THIS CHRONICLE OF ANJOU AND A NOBLE LADY IS DEDICATED BY M.H.

CONTENTS
BOOK I--THE BOOK OF YEA
EXORDIUM PAGE
The Abbot Milo urbi el orbi, concerning the Nature of the Leopard 3
CHAPTER I
Of Count Richard, and the Fires by Night 5
CHAPTER II
How the Fair Jehane bestowed herself 18
CHAPTER III
In what Harbour they found the Old Lion 29
CHAPTER IV
How Jehane stroked what Alois had made Fierce 41
CHAPTER V
How Bertran de Born and Count Richard strove in a Tenzon 56
CHAPTER VI
Fruits of the Tenzon: the Back of Saint-Pol, and the Front of Montferrat 69
CHAPTER VII
Of the Crackling of Thorns under Pots 84
CHAPTER VIII
How they held Richard off from his Father's Throat 93
CHAPTER IX
Wild Work in the Church of Gisors 102
CHAPTER X
Night-work by the Dark Tower 111
CHAPTER XI
Of Prophecy; and Jehane in the Perilous Bed 123
CHAPTER XII
How they bayed the Old Lion 134
CHAPTER XIII
How they met at Fontevrault 145
CHAPTER XIV
Of what King Richard said to the Bowing Rood; and what Jehane to King Richard 156
CHAPTER XV
Last Tenzon of Bertran de Born 168
CHAPTER XVI
Conversation in England of Jehane the Fair 179
CHAPTER XVII
Frozen Heart and Red Heart: Cahors 193
* * * * *
BOOK II--THE BOOK OF NAY
CHAPTER I
The Chapter called Mate-Grifon 209
CHAPTER II
Of what Jehane looked for, and what Berengère had 220
CHAPTER III
Who Fought at Acre 235
CHAPTER IV
Concerning the Tower of Flies, Saint-Pol, and the Marquess of Montferrat 248
CHAPTER V
The Chapter of Forbidding: how De Gurdun looked, and King Richard hid his Face 262
CHAPTER VI
The Chapter called Clytemnestra 282
CHAPTER VII
The Chapter of the Sacrifice on Lebanon; also called Cassandra 293
CHAPTER VIII
Of the Going-up and Going-down of the Marquess 302
CHAPTER IX
How King Richard reaped what Jehane had sowed, and the Soldan was Gleaner 311
CHAPTER X
The Chapter called Bonds 327
CHAPTER XI
The Chapter called A Latere 338
CHAPTER XII
The Chapter of Strife in the Dark 350
CHAPTER XIII
Of the Love of Women 362
CHAPTER XIV
How the Leopard was loosed 369
CHAPTER XV
Oeconomic Reflections of the Old Man of Musse 380
CHAPTER XVI
The Chapter called Chaluz 386
CHAPTER XVII
The Keening 396
EPILOGUE OF THE ABBOT MILO 408

BOOK I
THE BOOK OF YEA

EXORDIUM
THE ABBOT MILO URBI ET ORBI, CONCERNING THE NATURE OF THE LEOPARD
I like this good man's account of leopards, and find it more pertinent to my matter than you might think. Milo was a Carthusian monk, abbot of the cloister of Saint Mary-of-the-Pine by Poictiers; it was his distinction to be the life-long friend of a man whose friendships were few: certainly it may be said of him that he knew as much of leopards as any one of his time and nation, and that his knowledge was better grounded.
'Your leopard,' he writes, 'is alleged in the books to be offspring of the Lioness and the Pard; and his name, if the Realists have any truth on their side, establishes the fact. But I think he should be called Leolupé, which is to say, got by lion out of bitch-wolf, since two essences burn in him as well as two sorts. This is the nature of the leopard: it is a spotted beast, having two souls, a bright soul and a dark soul. It is black and golden, slim and strong, cat and dog. Hunger drives a dog to hunt, so the leopard; passion the cat, so the leopard. A cat is sufficient unto himself, and a leopard is so; but a dog hangs on a man's nod, and a leopard can so be beguiled. A leopard is sleek as a cat and pleased by stroking; like a cat he will scratch his friend on occasion. Yet again, he has a dog's intrepidity, knows no fear, is single-purposed, not to be called off, longanimous. But the cat in him makes him wary, tempts him