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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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