Chapter VII: July (2)

"They comes back! They comes back, the old plays." And therewith begins to repeat "Here comes Three Dukes a Riding." "Us used to play that--and a right pretty game it was," she explained,--"on the village green, when the leaves were budding, betwixt the hours of school."

And she recited aloud in her dear, funny, old cracked voice--

"'Here comes three dukes a riding
With a ransome, dansome, day.'

"Then the lasses used to answer," she told us, "and cry out--

"'And what is your intent, sirs, intent, sirs?
With a ransome, dansome, day.'

"At this the lads used to shout--

"'My intent is to marry, to marry.'

"And the maids would reply--

"'Will you marry one of my daughters, one of my daughters?'

"Then the lads used to look highty-tighty, for all they had in their bones only the making of ploughmen, ditchers, and shepherds," Nana declared, "and they would say--

"'You be as stiff as pokers, as pokers.'

And turn up their noses and strut back.

"Then the maids would answer, mincing like--

"'We can bend like you, sirs, like you, sirs!'

"Then the lads would scan the lasses up and down, and sing back, as if every one of 'em had been born a lord, or high sheriff of the county at least--

"'You're all too black and too blowsy, too blowsy
For a dilly-dally officer.'

"Then the maids would sing with a bit of spite--

"'We're good enough for you, sirs, good enough for you.'

"Then a lad would leave his fellows, and say with a shrug of his shoulders, and crestfallen like--

"'If I must have one I will have this,
So away with you my pretty miss.'"

And then old Nana told us that the maids would laugh and the lads would jeer, for in turn each lad had to choose a lass, and sometimes the lass he had a mind to wouldn't go.

[Sidenote: A RING OF ROSES]

Then Nana, after a short pause, said, "Then there be another game as us used to play. Ring of Roses, some used to call it, and others Grandfather's Rheum. But I cannot remember but one verse--

"'A ring, a ring of roses,
A pocket full of posies.
One for Jack, and one for Jan
And one for little Moses.
A-tisha, a-tisha, a-tisha.'

and the fun was who could sneeze loudest. I remember Mike Mallard and Mary Wilston was wonderful at it. 'Yer'll die in a sneeze,' folk used to tell them."

"Nana can you think of no more, just one more." For Nana had beckoned to Bess to say good night and go.

"Yes," I said, "just one more."

So old Nana yielded to our united pleadings, asserted it must be only _one_, as it was high time for her lad and lass to be in bed, and ended by reciting aloud a strange old Shropshire rhyme--

"'Walking up the green grass,
A dust, a frust, a dust.
We want a pretty maid
To walk along with us.'

"The lads used to say that in a chorus," Nana explained. "Then the maids would answer--

"'Fiddle faddle--fiddle faddle.'

"Then the boys would say--

"'We'll take a pretty maid,
We'll catch her by the hand,
She shall go to Derby,
For Derby be her land.
She shall have a duck, my dear,
She shall have a lamb,
Hers shall be a nice young man,
A-fighting for her sake.

"'Suppose this young man was to die,
And leave the lass alone,
Our bells would ring, and we should sing
And clap our hands together.'

"And the maids said--

"'Fiddle faddle--fiddle faddle.'"

"I don't like it," said Bess, impulsively. "Why should they all be jolly because the poor gentleman died?"

[Sidenote: "THERE'S THINGS AS GIRLS CAN'T UNDERSTAND"]

But Hals did not take that view. "There's things," he said loftily, "as girls can't understand."

At this Bess turned very red, and in the spirit of the modern woman declared, "What she couldn't understand, Hals couldn't neither." And in deep dudgeon she followed Nana into the house.

As the little party passed out of the garden Hals called back to me, "We've forgotten Stag a Roarning. The best of all the games we've not told you about. One that I played last year with my papa at a school feast."

The twilight turned into night. The servants came out, and I was helped back to the Chapel Hall. After all it had not been a dull afternoon. One can go many miles in one's room, if one knows how to ride on the wings of fancy, and many is the garden that I had visited that day, borne along on the pinions of imagination, for were not the gardens of all time open to me? No dragons or mailed warriors guarded the entrance gates, not even a modern policeman.

An hour after dinner I found myself in bed. The window of my chamber was wide open, an old lancet window of Norman days, one out of which Roger de Montgomery may have gazed, and, later, many of the Henry's of England in succession. All was very still outside. In the little bit of dark sapphire-blue sky that met my eye as I lay in bed, I saw a mist of silver stars, and the scent of the creepers entered with entrancing sweetness. I was no longer in pain, but not sleepy, so I stretched out my hand and took hold of a book. My hand closed upon a volume of Milton, well worn, and much used; for John Milton has a solemn, sacred power, and touches you with the solemnity of some grand chords heard upon a cathedral organ, and the melody of his verse is often welcome in this holy place. But it was not to his "Paradise Lost" or "Regained" that I turned, nor to his exquisite sonnets. I was in a lighter mood; I turned to the most beautiful masque that ever was written; whilst I thought of the most beautiful of all ruins, Ludlow Castle, the early home of Sir Philip Sidney, England's ideal knight, and the mirror of her chivalry.

The plot of the masque arose from a simple little mishap which happened in the life of the actors. John Milton was then tutor to the Earl of Bridgewater's sons, Lord Brackley and Thomas Egerton. On their way to Ludlow, the young party went through Haywood Forest in Herefordshire. Travelling with her brothers was the Lady Alice Egerton. Somehow, in the depth of the wilderness, the young lady was lost for a short time.

Out of this slender plot Milton constructed his masque of "Comus." His friend, Henry Lawes, set his songs to music, and the fair Alice and her two brothers all appeared in the play on Michaelmas night and acted at Ludlow Castle before their parents and assembled guests. As I lay in bed the grace and the charm of the masque returned to me. I thought in the tranquillity of the summer evening I heard the lady calling--

"Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that lives unseen
Within thy airy shell,
By slow meander's margent green,
And in the violet-embroidered vale
Where the love-lorn nightingale
Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well:
Canst thou not tell me of a gentle pair
That likest thy narcissus are?
O, if thou have
Hid them in some flowery cave
Tell me where?
Sweet queen of parley, daughter of the sphere,
So mayest thou be translated to the skies
And give resounding grace to all heaven's harmonies."

[Sidenote: THE MASQUE OF "COMUS"]

How prettily the lines must have sounded, not through wood and glade, but through the stately presence chamber of Ludlow Castle to the graceful tinkling music Lawes had written for them. The earl and countess sat, I have read, in all the state of the Marches Court in the front row, and were surrounded by neighbours and dependents. There is the grace of great things in "Comus," and a grace and finished purity of soul that have seldom belonged to youth.

The elder brother's speech is worthy of Shakespeare--

"He that has light within his own clear breast,
May sit in the centre and enjoy bright day.
But he, that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts,
Benighted walks under the mid-day sun;
Himself is his own dungeon."

What happened to fair Alice, I have often asked myself, in the time of trouble that was soon to come? I have never been able to find out much, save that she married Lord Carberry, and lived with him at his seat of Golden Grove.

In the unbroken calm, the old world seemed very near me. Ghosts, once dear to Ludlow, seemed to breathe around me. The little princes, with their fair curls, smiled upon me from the threshold of life; Prince Arthur, Sir Philip Sidney, Alice and her brothers, and Milton in the dawn of his poet's career; ill-fated Charles; and brilliant, but broken-hearted, Butler. I thought of all of them, whilst the wind stirred faintly the summer leaves. At last I sank into repose. Sweet dreams are those suggested by old-world ghosts, and when the spirit is lulled by the graces of another age. I lay half-dreaming, half-awake, and thought of John Milton, young and beautiful, with the fire of inspiration in his deep grey-blue eyes. A man of wonderful learning and grace. A master swordsman, inasmuch as it was true of him "that he was not afraid of resenting an affront from any man." Of deep erudition, for Hebrew, Chaldee, and Syriac were all known to him, besides being well versed in Italian, French, and Spanish. He could repeat aloud, I have heard, many portions of Homer. I thought of him later giving himself up to the delights of music, of which he was a master, as was his father; playing, it is said, both on the organ and on other instruments. He was also a composer, like his friend Henry Lawes, though none of his compositions have reached us. Certainly, as Bishop Newton wrote of him, "he was a man of great parts, for his was a quick apprehension, a sublime imagination, a strong memory, a piercing judgment, and a wit always ready."

The next day I sat out after breakfast. It was delicious weather. Soft rain had fallen during the night towards dawn, and refreshed the earth. I had begun to answer letters on a little bed-table, when my solitude was interrupted by the appearance of Auguste. He approached my couch with a profound bow. Under his arm was a book bound in vellum, and bearing on the side an inscription in manuscript. He advanced, placed both heels together, and then bowed profoundly.

"Madame se porte mieux?" he inquired.

I replied in the affirmative, and thanked him for his kind enquiries.

[Sidenote: L'OEUVRE DE GRAND-PAPA]

There was a pause; then Auguste bowed again, and after a long string of courteous words, in which our cook trusted that "le bon Dieu ferait vite son métier," and in which he assured me that he prayed that I should be soon restored to health, he put beside me "le cahier blanc" that he had been holding. "C'est l'oeuvre de mon grand-père," he explained with pride. "Il était cuisinier dans la famille d'un maréchal de l'Empire," and added, "madame peut copier ce dont elle a besoin."

I felt overwhelmed at this proposal, for I realized that poor Auguste was giving me what he prized most in the world. Perhaps the great Napoleon had supped off grandpapa's _entrées_, or Josephine had tasted an ice or some _brioche_ made by grandpapa's hands. These recipes have for Auguste the mysticism of the lore of Merlin. They are, in his words, _magnifiques_, _superbes_, and the last words of culinary art. "Mes secrets," he generally calls them. Grand'maman bound them in white vellum, and the book has been handed down as a priceless heirloom in Auguste's family.

I felt I could hardly thank my cook sufficiently for his kind thought. There Auguste stood in irreproachable white linen cap and coat. No prince could have believed that he could offer a more splendid gift, as he repeated, with a theatrical wave of his hand, "Madame peut tout copier." And then added, with an indulgent smile, "Madame est malade, cela lui fera un plaisir énorme."

I rose to the occasion and said, as "bonne ménagère." I found it difficult to express my gratitude.

At this Auguste retired a step, and then, with a courtly bow, exclaimed grandly, his eye upon my embroidery which lay near on a chair, "Il faut que les artistes se consolent dans les jours de tristesse," and so saying, vanished to reign over his own kingdom.

A little later Burbidge came in to see me. In his hand he held a bunch of roses, neatly tied with green matting, a new fad of mine. Amongst the roses that he had brought me, I found a lovely Caroline Testout, of great size and beauty, of a delicate pink with a glow of richer colour in the centre. Then there was an open bud of charming Thérèse Levet, and a full blown splendour of Archiduchesse Marie Immaculata, with its curious red-brick tints; and two or three blossoms of the dear old-fashioned Prince Camille de Rohan of a deep, brownish crimson hue.

"Here's a few on 'em, just a sprinklin'," said Burbidge. "But oh, 'tis a pity as yer can't see 'em growin'! The sop of rain has brought 'em out, like the sunshine brings out chickens from under a hen's wing. They be popping and peering in the garden, as if they had the Lord Almighty to look at 'em Hisself."

"Perhaps He is," I said with a smile.

To this Burbidge didn't give direct assent, but like a true Shropshire man, he declared that it was his belief, if the Lord was on earth, it might pleasure Him to see the place, for the whole of the red-walled garden was a garland of flowers. "There be irises, and roses, and peonies; and it be hard to tell the colours. There be all sorts and all shades, most like a glass window in the Abbey Church at Shrewsbury." And Burbidge added, with that true sense of poetry that belongs to the peasant, that "the Wrekin doves they be cooing and fluttering round the firs, same as in a real poem."

[Sidenote: A POSY OF ROSES]

Burbidge laid the bunch of roses close beside me, for they had slipped off the sofa whilst he was talking. Before going, he vouchsafed the information that there be a Reine d'Angleterre three parts in blow. He pronounced the French words strangely, but I understood from many talks what was meant in Gallic, and that he would bring it to me. "And 'tis a great deal, I think, the sight of a new rose--leastways, 'tis to me; for it allus pleases, and it never can be uncivil like many Christians," he said. After which profound dictum, my good old gardener hobbled off. These kind gifts and little attentions touched me. I appreciated much Auguste's thoughtful kindness, and Burbidge's pity for my misfortune, for it was his invariable rule that a "first blow," must show itself first in a garden. "Don't 'e interfere with the Lord's system," he once said to me, when I wanted to gather a new tree peony. "Let it pleasure itself first time in the garden, and arter yer may please yerself."

I smelt my bunch of roses, the fragrance was delicious, soft and sweet, and only to be fully appreciated by dipping one's nose well into the centre of the sweetest.

Certainly a rose is a lovely flower, and it is wonderful what gardeners have done to tend, improve, and develop it, and it was hard to imagine that any of the great double complex blossoms that I held in my hand, were first cousin, and lineally descended from the wild rose of the hedges. Yet delicious as roses are, and beloved by most men, and women, there have been, and may be, for aught I know, some who still cordially hate them, as cordially as Lord Roberts is said to dislike the presence of a cat, or a certain Duchess that I have been told of, the approach of horses.

Marguerite of Navarre, the wife of Henry IV. of France, is said to have found the perfume of roses so repellent, that she fainted if one was brought her; and I remember in Evelyn's Diary of 1670, an account of a dinner-party at Goring House, in which he tells us that, "Lord Stafford rose from table in some disorder, because there were roses stuck about the fruit at dessert."

Sir Kenelm Digby also told a story of the same kind of Lady Selenger (St. Leger). Her antipathy to this flower he declared to have been so great, that some one laying a rose beside her cheek when asleep, thereby caused a blister to rise. Whether the story was true it is too long ago to tell; but by all accounts Sir Kenelm "was a teller of strange things."

Whilst I was thinking over these old-world stories, I was suddenly interrupted by the entrance of my little girl.

"Oh, mamma," cried Bess, with tears in her eyes, "only to think he--Hals--has to go, to go in two days."

"Do not cry, little one," I replied. "Papa and I have settled that I am to go off for a week to the seaside, and you shall come too; and even Mouse shall have her ticket."

At this Bess was comforted, for the prospect of the sea, the sands, and a spade of her very own, were very consolatory. But the day that little Hals left us, she came to me just before going off to bed.

"Mum," she said, "I've been thinking."

"Yes, dear," I replied.

"I've been thinking," pursued Bess, "that somehow there ought to be--a way to keep a boy. Grown-up girls have husbands, I know," she said. Then, after a momentary pause, "You have a great, great book of Harrod's. Surely, somewhere, mamsie, they have a boy stall."

I laughed and kissed my little girl. "We are poor creatures," I said, "we girls and women. We have all for centuries wanted to buy some boy, and haven't yet found out where or how to do it."

[Sidenote: "GOOD-BYE! GOOD-BYE!"]

A few days later, Bess and I found ourselves on the Wenlock station platform. Masses of boxes surrounded us, and Mouse, with a label tied to her collar, sat watching us intently.

"Why aren't you glad to go--glad as I am, mamsie?" cried Bess, impetuously. "You know the doctor said that it would make you quite better, and we can bathe together in the sea. Besides," added my little maid, with wisdom beyond her years, "if you only go, you are always much gladder to come back."

We jumped into a carriage, and Mouse looked out of the window. Burbidge took my last injunctions. Then the train moved off, and the ruins and old town of Wenlock faded before my eyes. "Good-bye, dear old place!" I murmured. And as we dashed on, faintly sounding on the breeze, I caught the last notes of the distant chimes--"Good-bye! Good-bye!"

INDEX

A

Abbey Farmery, 233, 279

Ales-hoof, 262

All Fools' Day, 132

Almonds, 131

Amiel, 2

Anemones, 16, 228
varieties, 289

Annuals, 283

Anstice, Squire, 168

Apple Howlers, 242

Arabis, 98

Ashfield Hall, 53

Austrian briar, 137

Ayrshire briars, 283

B

Bachelors' Buttons, 173

Bacon, Lord, 300

Bacon's garden, 293

Baily Clerke, Sir John, _alias_ John Cressage, 153

Banister or Banaistre, 83

Banister's Coppice, 83

Beans, Mont d'Or, 50

Bee charms, 140, 141

Bee hives, 139

Bees, 137, 138

Berners, Dame Juliana, 100

Birds' country names, 179

Blackbird, 94

Blackcap, 16, 220

Black ouzel (blackbird), 184

Blore Heath, 155

Bog myrtle, 176

Borde, Andrew, 300

Boscobel, 227

Botelar, Sir Thomas, 151, 152, 153

Botryoides hyacinths, 136

Bouncing Bess (Valerian), 173

Bridle, the scold's, 247

Browne, Sir Thomas, 156

Buckingham, Duke of, 83

Bull-baiting, 166

Bull-ring, 163, 250

C

Caer Caradoc, 273

Camden, 211

Canaries, 36

Cap St. Martin, 11

Carrion crow, 104, 105

Chaffinch, 8, 65, 185

Chapter House, 209

Charité, La, 95

Charles I., 53

Charles II., 227

Chartres, 42

Chaucer, 171

Chaucer's garden, 298

Chimes, 12, 321

Chionodoxa, 64, 136

_Choisya ternata_, 233

Clee Hill, 79

Clematis Flammula, 40

Clematis Jackmanni, 40

Clematis Montana, 40

Cloisters, 173

Clugniac monks, 161

Clun, 77, 109

Cobbett, 213

Cock-fighting, 199, 200, 201

Columbines, 251

Comus, 314

Convolvulus, 51

Corncrake, 226

Corsica, 12

Corvehill, Sir William, 153

Craven Arms, 81

Cressage, John, _alias_ Sir John Baily Clerke, 153

Crimson Rambler, 40

Crocuses, 96, 97, 135

Cromwell, Oliver, 5

Cromwell, Thomas, 211

Crown Imperials, 136

Cuckoo, 148, 149, 185, 285

Cuckoo's Cup, 196

D

Daffodils, garden varieties, 174

Dahlias, 109

Daphne, 9, 17

Darwin Tulips, 136

Delphiniums, 281

Devil, Timothy Theobald's views on the, 242

Digby, Sir Kenelm, 320

Dog-rose, 226

E

Ecall (woodpecker), 260

Eckford's sweet peas, 51

Edge Wood, 181, 182

Elizabeth of York's bower, 295

Ellesmere, 166

Escargots, 95, 96, 238

Evelyn, John, 295

Exeter book, 148

F

Fanshawe, Sir Richard, 302

Farley Dingle, 83, 226

Favourite flowers, 120

Forester, Squire, 206, 207

_Fraxinella Dictamnus_ (Burning Bush), 173, 256, 257

G

Games in Shropshire, 304-12

Gardens, 290
at La Mortola, 11

Geraniums, sweet-scented, 234, 235

"Gerard's Herbal," 43, 74, 301

Ghosts of Ludlow Castle, 315

Gladioli, varieties, 116

Godwin, Bishop, 211

Grass, bulbs in, 163

Grass of Parnassus, 124

Greenfinch, 122

H

Hampton Court, 295

Hanbury, Sir Thomas
his garden at La Mortola, 11

Hedgehog, 236, 237

Heliotrope, 234

Hellebores, 97

Henricus Stephanus, 254

Henry VIII., 212

Herbert, George, 302

Herbs, 258

Hesperides, 297

Highclere, 290

High Ercall, 302

Hill, Thomas, 300

Homer, 144

Honeysuckle, 226

Hotel Bellevue, 11

I

Irises, Spanish, 136

J

Jackdaws, 9, 173

Jack squealer, 215

Jay, 182

Johnnie's watch, 197

Judy Cookson, 247

K

Kenilworth, 299

King, Collins, 224

King-cups, 121

Kiss-in-the-ring, 199

Kitty wren, 145

Kynaston, Humphrey, 110

L

Langley, 292

Laon, 256

Latimer, 213

Lawson, 301

Leper's chamber, 173

Leveret, the, and "Mouse," 273

_Lilium Auratum_, 173

_Lilium Martagon_, 173

Longleat, 254

Longmynd, 273

Loppington, 167

Love in the Mist, 51

Lucky flower, marsh marigold, 191

Ludlow Castle, 314, 315

M

Macaws' colours, 14

Madeley manor, 153

Madeley wakes, 167

Magpie, 182

Malope, 51

Malory, 2

Manetti, stock for roses, 136

Markham, 300

Marsh marigold, a lucky flower, 191

Martagon lilies, 173

Mary proclaimed queen, 154

Masque of flowers, 303

May Day, 166, 171, 172

Mediterranean, 12

Mentone, 11

"Mezeron tree," 62

Milburgha, Saint, 30, 32, 59, 60

Milton, John, 6, 313

Mistress Tuggy's bower, 299

Montaigne, 3, 115

Moody, Tom, 202, 203, 204

Moor-hen, 134

Moor Park (Herefordshire), 296

Moor Park (Surrey), 296, 297

More, Sir Thomas, 84

Morris dancers, 195

Mortola (La), gardens at, 11, 12

Moss roses, 281

Mouse-ear, 259

Mytton, Sheriff, 83

N

Nanny Morgan, 89, 90

Napoleon, 12

Narcissus, Stella and Cynosure, 162

Nest, a forsaken, 240

Nonsuch, 294, 301

O

Oak-apples, 226, 227

Oaken gates, 168

Old Soul, 203, 204

Oreilles d'Ours, 176

Osborne, Dorothy, 297

Ounts, 101

P

Palm Sunday, 150

Parson Mortimer, 168

Patrick's (Saint) shamrock, 123

Peacock, 9

Pear varieties, 108

Penance, 250

Penzance briars, 283

Peonies, 251, 259

Peonies (tree), 282

Periwinkles, 121

Piers Ploughman, 149

Pigeons, 9

Pinks, 258

Pittosporum, 11

Poke-puddings (tomtits), 8, 239

Poppies, Oriental, 251

Poppies, Shirley, 52

Posenhall, 155

Primroses, 121, 159

_Primula_, _Cashmeriana_ and _Japonica_, 176

Punishments, ancient, 246

Q

Quice (wood-pigeons), 94, 184

R

Ranunculi, 108, 109, 228

Raven's bowl, the, 196

Redstart, 217, 218

Ribes, 135

Ring-ouzel, 219

Robin, 29, 99

Roger de Montgomery, 33, 161, 313

Rooks, 9, 101, 102, 103, 159

Rose haters, 319, 320

Rose, Japanese, 137

Roses, hybrid tea, 135

Roses, old, 43

Roses, red, 299

Roses, tea, 40

Roses, varieties, 108, 282, 318

Rosemary, 255

Royal oak, 227

Rue, 292

Rupert, Prince, 53

S

Scilla Sibirica, 162

Servant hiring, 244

Severn, 147

Sheinton Street, 56

Sherlot Forest, 121

Shinewood, 83, 84

Shipton, 84, 291

Shropshire games, 304-12

Silverton, 79

"Sister Helen," 66, 71

Skylark, 122, 123

Spital Street, 154

Stafford, Lord, 320

Starlings, 8, 63

Stocks, 246

Stonhill coppice, 168

Storm-cock, 94, 233

Swans, 134, 135

T

Temple Garden, 292

Temple, Sir William, 297

Theobalds, 299

Thomas à Kempis, 48

Thrush, 95, 239, 253

Tiberius, the Emperor, 269

Tomtits, 8, 239

Tong Church, 299

Tradescant, John, 301

V

Violas, 235

Violets, 94
garden varieties, 174
white, 120

W

Wagtail, yellow, 240

Wake Sunday, 196

Watch-tower, 9

Well, St. Milburgha's, 61

Wenlock station, 321

Wife, sale of a, 247

Wormwood, 261

Wrekin, 147, 197

Wrekin doves, 249

Wrens, 8, 98

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