RICHARD YEA-AND-NAY ***
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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
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BOOK II--THE BOOK OF NAY
CHAPTER I
