The Life And Death Of Richard Yea And Nay Volume 91 - Maurice Hewlett (i wanna iguana read aloud txt) 📗
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'The King Died In Peace, My Lord,' She Said, 'And I Have Peace Because
Of That.'
'Thy Children Shall Call Thee Blessed, My Beloved, As I Call Thee.'
'The Prophecy Of The Leper Was Not Fulfilled, Sir,' Says Jehane.
Ah,' Replied The Old Man Of Musse, All These Things Are In The Hands Of
The Supreme Disposer, Who With His Forefinger Points Us The Determined
Road.'
Then Jehane Went In To Her Children, And Other Duties Which Her Station
Required Of Her.
Epilogue Of The Abbot Milo
'When I Consider,' Writes The Abbot Milo On His Last Page, 'That I Have
Lived To See The Deaths Of Three Kings Of England, Wearers Of The
Broom-Switch, And Of The Manner Of Those Deaths, I Am Led To Admire The
Wonderful Ordering Of Almighty God, Who Accorded To Each Of Them An End
Illustrative Of His Doings In The World, And So Wrote, As It Were, In
Blood For Our Learning. King Henry Produced Strife, King Richard Induced
Strife, And King John Deduced It. King Henry Died Cursing And Accursed;
King Richard Forgiving And Forgiven; King John Blaspheming, And Not Held
Worthy Of Reproof. The First Did Evil, Meaning Evilly; The Second Evil,
Meaning Well; The Third Was Evil. So The First Was Wretched In Death,
The Second Pitiful, The Third Shameful. The First Loved A Few, The
Second Loved One, The Third None. So The Death Of The First Was Gain To
A Few, That Of The Second To One, That Of The Third To None; For He That
Loves Not, Neither Can He Hate: He Is Negligible In The End. But Observe
Now, The Chief Woe Of These Kings Of The House Of Anjou Was That They
Hurt Whom They Loved More Than Whom They Hated.
'King Henry Was A Great Prince, Who Did Evil To Many Both In His Life
And Death. My Dear Master, Lord, And Friend Might Have Been A Greater,
Had Not His Head Gone Counter To His Heart, His Generosity Not Been
Tripped Up By His Pride. So Generous As He Was, All The World Might Have
Loved Him, As One Loved Him; And Yet So Arrogant Of Mind That The Very
Largess He Bestowed Had A Sting Beneath It, As Though He Scorned To Give
Less To Creatures That Lacked So Much. All His Faults And Most Of His
Griefs Sprang From This Rending Apart Of His Nature. His Heart Cried
Yea! To A Noble Motion. Then Came His Haughty Head To Suggest Trickery,
And Bid Him Say Nay! To The Heart's Urgency.
'He Was A Religious Man, A Pious Man, The Hottest Fighter With The
Coolest Judgment Of Any I Have Ever Known; A Great Lover Of One Woman.
He Might Have Been A Happy Man If She Had Been Let Have Her Way. But He
Thwarted Her, He Played With Her Whole-Heart Love, Blew Hot And Cold;
Neither Let Her Alone Nor Clove To Her Through All. So She Had To Pay.
And Of Him, My Friend And King Howsoever, I Say From The Bottom Of My
Soul, If His Death Did Not Benefit Poor Jehane, Then It Is A Happy Thing
For A Woman To Go Bleeding In The Side. But I Know That She Was
Fortunate In His Death, And Believe That He Was Also. For He Had Space
For Reparation, Died With His Lovers About Him, Having Been Saved In
Time From A Great Disgrace. And It Is A Very Wise Man Who Reports: _Illi
Mors Gravis Incubat, Qui Notus Nimis Omnibus, Ignotus Moritur Sibi_. But
King Richard Knew Himself In Those Last Keen Hours, And (As We Believe)
Volume 91 Book 2 (The Book Of Nay) Chapter 17 (The Keening) Pg 201'God Be Good To Him Where He Is! They Say That When He Died, That Same
Day His Soul Was Solved From Purgatorial Fires (By Reason, One May
Suppose, Of His Glorious Captaincy Of The Armies Of The Cross), And He
Drawn Up To Heaven In A Flamy Cloud. I Know Nothing Certainly Of This,
Which Was Not Revealed To Me; But My Prayer Is That He May Be Now With
Hannibal And Judas Maccabæus And Charles The Great Emperor; And By This
Time Of Writing (If There Be No Offence In It) With Jehane To Sit Upon
His Knee.
'Upon Whose Two Souls, Jesu, Have Mercy!'
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