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chastelard-第5部分
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Though this your talk might make a blithe man sad。
QUEEN。
O me! I must not let stray sorrows out;
They are ill to fledge; and if they feel blithe air
They wail and chirp untunefully。 Would God
I had been a man! when I was born; men say;
My father turned his face and wept to think
I was no man。
CHASTELARD。
Will you weep too?
QUEEN。
In sooth;
If I were a man I should be no base man;
I could have fought; yea; I could fight now too
If men would show me; I would I were the king!
I should be all ways better than I am。
CHASTELARD。
Nay; would you have more honor; having this…
Men's hearts and loves and the sweet spoil of souls
Given you like simple gold to bind your hair?
Say you were king of thews; not queen of souls;
An iron headpiece hammered to a head;
You might fall too。
QUEEN。
No; then I would not fall;
Or God should make me woman back again。
To be King James…you hear men say King James;
The word sounds like a piece of gold thrown down;
Rings with a round and royal note in it…
A name to write good record of; this king
Fought here and there; was beaten such a day;
And came at last to a good end; his life
Being all lived out; and for the main part well
And like a king's life; then to have men say
(As now they say of Flodden; here they broke
And there they held up to the end) years back
They saw you…yea; I saw the king's face helmed
Red in the hot lit foreground of some fight
Hold the whole war as it were by the bit; a horse
Fit for his knees' grip…the great rearing war
That frothed with lips flung up; and shook men's lives
Off either flank of it like snow; I saw
(You could not hear as his sword rang); saw him
Shout; laugh; smite straight; and flaw the riven ranks;
Move as the wind moves; and his horse's feet
Stripe their long flags with dust。 Why; if one died;
To die so in the heart and heat of war
Were a much goodlier thing than living soft
And speaking sweet for fear of men。 Woe's me;
Is there no way to pluck this body off?
Then I should never fear a man again;
Even in my dreams I should not; no; by heaven。
CHASTELARD。
I never thought you did fear anything。
QUEEN。
God knows I do; I could be sick with wrath
To think what grievous fear I have 'twixt whiles
Of mine own self and of base men: last night
If certain lords were glancing where I was
Under the eyelid; with sharp lip and brow;
I tell you; for pure shame and fear of them;
I could have gone and slain them。
CHASTELARD。
Verily;
You are changed since those good days that fell in France;
But yet I think you are not so changed at heart
As to fear man。
QUEEN。
I would I had no need。
Lend me your sword a little; a fair sword;
I see the fingers that I hold it with
Clear in the blade; bright pink; the shell…color;
Brighter than flesh is really; curved all round。
Now men would mock if I should wear it here;
Bound under bosom with a girdle; here;
And yet I have heart enough to wear it well。
Speak to me like a woman; let me see
If I can play at man。
CHASTELARD。
God save King James!
QUEEN。
Would you could change now! Fie; this will not do;
Unclasp your sword; nay; the hilt hurts my side;
It sticks fast here。 Unbind this knot for me:
Stoop; and you'll see it closer; thank you: there。
Now I can breathe; sir。 Ah! it hurts me; though:
This was fool's play。
CHASTELARD。
Yea; you are better so;
Without the sword; your eyes are stronger things;
Whether to save or slay。
QUEEN。
Alas; my side!
It hurts right sorely。 Is it not pitiful
Our souls should be so bound about with flesh
Even when they leap and smite with wings and feet;
The least pain plucks them back; puts out their eyes;
Turns them to tears and words? Ah my sweet knight;
You have the better of us that weave and weep
While the blithe battle blows upon your eyes
Like rain and wind; yet I remember too
When this last year the fight at Corrichie
Reddened the rushes with stained fen…water;
I rode with my good men and took delight;
Feeling the sweet clear wind upon my eyes
And rainy soft smells blown upon my face
In riding: then the great fight jarred and joined;
And the sound stung me right through heart and all;
For I was here; see; gazing off the hills;
In the wet air; our housings were all wet;
And not a plume stood stiffly past the ear
But flapped between the bridle and the neck;
And under us we saw the battle go
Like running water; I could see by fits
Some helm the rain fell shining off; some flag
Snap from the staff; shorn through or broken short
In the man's falling: yea; one seemed to catch
The very grasp of tumbled men at men;
Teeth clenched in throats; hands riveted in hair;
Tearing the life out with no help of swords。
And all the clamor seemed to shine; the light
Seemed to shout as a man doth; twice I laughed
I tell you; twice my heart swelled out with thirst
To be into the battle; see; fair lord;
I swear it seemed I might have made a knight;
And yet the simple bracing of a belt
Makes me cry out; this is too pitiful;
This dusty half of us made up with fears。
Have you been ever quite so glad to fight
As I have thought men must? pray you; speak truth。
CHASTELARD。
Yea; when the time came; there caught hold of me
Such pleasure in the head and hands and blood
As may be kindled under loving lips:
Crossing the ferry once to the Clerks' Field;
I mind how the plashing noise of Seine
Put fire into my face for joy; and how
My blood kept measure with the swinging boat
Till we touched land; all for the sake of that
Which should be soon。
QUEEN。
Her name; for God's love; sir;
You slew your friend for love's sake? nay; the name。
CHASTELARD。
Faith; I forget。
QUEEN。
Now by the faith I have
You have no faith to swear by。
CHASTELARD。
A good sword:
We left him quiet after a thrust or twain。
QUEEN。
I would I had been at hand and marked them off
As the maids did when we played singing games:
You outwent me at rhyming; but for faith;
We fight best there。 I would I had seen you fight。
CHASTELARD。
I would you had; his play was worth an eye;
He made some gallant way before that pass
Which made me way through him。
QUEEN。
Would I saw that
How did you slay him?
CHASTELARD。
A clean passthis way;
Right in the side here; where the blood has root。
His wrist went round in pushing; see you; thus;
Or he had pierced me。
QUEEN。
Yea; I see; sweet knight。
I have a mind to love you for his sake;
Would I had seen。
CHASTELARD。
Hugues de Marsillac
I have the name now; 't was a goodly one
Before he changed it for a dusty name。
QUEEN。
Talk not of death; I would hear living talk
Of good live swords and good strokes struck withal;
Brave battles and the mirth of mingling men;
Not of cold names you greet a dead man with。
You are yet young for fighting; but in fight
Have you never caught a wound?
CHASTELARD。
Yea; twice or so:
The first time in a little outlying field
(My first field) at the sleepy gray of dawn;
They found us drowsy; fumbling at our girths;
And rode us down by heaps; I took a hurt
Here in the shoulder。
QUEEN。
Ah; I mind well now;
Did you not ride a day's space afterward;
Having two wounds? yea; Dandelot it was;
That Dandelot took word of it。 I know;
Sitting at meat when the news came to us
I had nigh swooned but for those Florence eyes
Slanting my way with sleek lids drawn up close
Yea; and she said; the Italian brokeress;
She said such men were good for great queens' love。
I would you might die; when you come to die;
Like a knight slain。 Pray God we make good ends。
For love too; love dies hard or easily;
But some way dies on some day; ere we die。
CHASTELARD。
You made a song once of old flowers and loves;
Will you not sing that rather? 't is long gone
Since you sang last。
QUEEN。
I had rather sigh than sing
And sleep than sigh; 't is long since verily;
But I will once more sing; ay; thus it was。
'Sings。'
1。
J'ai vu faner bien des choses;
Mainte feuille aller au vent。
En songeant aux vieilles roses;
J'ai pleure souvent。
2。
Vois…tu dans les roses mortes
Amour qui sourit cache?
O mon amant; a nos portes
L'as…tu vu couche?
3。
As…tu vu jamais au monde
Venus chasser et courir?
Fille de l'onde; avec l'onde
Doit…elle mourir?
4。
Aux jours de neige et de givre
L'amour s'effeuille et s'endort;
Avec mai doit…il revivre;
Ou bien est…il mort?
5。
Qui sait ou s'en vont les roses?
Qui sai ou s'en va le vent?
En songeant a telles choses;
J'ai pleure souvent。
I never heard yet but love made good knights;
But for pure faith; by Mary's holiness;
I think she lies about men's lips asleep;
And if one kiss or pluck her by the hand
To wake her; why God help your woman's wit;
Faith is but dead; dig her grave deep at heart;
And hide her face with cerecloths; farewell faith。
Would I could tell why I talk idly。 Look;
Here come my riddle…readers。 Welcome all;
'Enter MURRAY; DARNLEY; RANDOLPH; LINDSAY;
MORTON; and other LORDS。'
Sirs; be right welcome。 Stand you by my side;
Fair cousin; I must lean on love or fall;
You are a goodly staff; sir; tall enough;
And fair enough to serve。 My gentle lords;
I am full glad of God that in great grace
He hath given me such a lordly stay as this;
There is no better friended queen alive。
For the repealing of those banished men
That stand in peril yet of last year's fault;
It is our will; you have our seal to that。
Brother; we hear harsh bruits of bad report
Blown up and down about our almoner;
See you to this: let him be sought into:
They say lewd folk make ballads of their spleen;
Strew miry ways of words wi
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