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So saying the knight and his esquire rode down the forest glade till they were lost to view. "O what is the matter?" then said the Bishop, "Or for whom do you make this a-do? Or why do you kill the King's venison, When your company is so few?" "We are shepherds," quoth bold Robin Hood, "And we keep sheep all the year, And we are disposed to be merrie this day, And to kill of the King's fat deer."
Everything seems to breathe out the spirit of departed ages. It is one vast relic of "Merrie England's" bygone splendour. It was the old original "Palace of the Peak," nor was it unworthy of the name.
This tremendous funeral long lived in men's memory, and there is a far prettier verse about it than the old distich of John "A' the bells o' merrie Lincoln Without men's hands were rung, And a' the books o' merrie Lincoln Were read without man's tongue; And ne'er was such a burial Sin' Adam's days begun."
In all directions these red houses were springing up, quaintly gabled, much verandahed, pointed, fantastic, brilliant. They made the whole neighbourhood of the Heath look like the Merrie England of a comic opera. Yet they were pretty in their way; many were designed by able architects, and pleased with a balanced sense of proportion and an impression of beauty and fitness.
The roads, too, are sometimes laid out straight and trim, suggestive of an attempt to imitate the roads of France; then, again, one traverses for miles the counterpart of the green lanes of Merrie England narrow, winding, and romantic. The Japanese roads are mainly about ten or twelve feet wide, giving ample room for two jinrikishas to pass, these being the only wheeled vehicles on the roads.
The grand violinist Durandarte: forcibly detained on his way to America. Mr. Radnor sent him a blank cheque: no! so Mr. Radnor besought him in person: he is irresistible; a great musician himself; it is becoming quite the modern style. We have now English noblemen who play the horn, the fife the drum, some say! We may yet be Merrie England again, with our nobles taking the lead.
He had come home to win his bride, and to carry her away to brighter scenes until this soured and gloomy England should be merrie England once more.
After a rough journey, the three arrived at Plymouth and delivered the letters, which were most carefully considered by the men of that colony. Realizing the serious danger such a center as Merrie Mount could be to all the settlements, it was decided to send a note of warning to Morton. He, however, treated it with scorn and in the same spirit rejected a second appeal.
I turned from the group of trees and the "merrie companie" in its shade. Midnight was long past; the concert was over, the crowds were thinning. I followed the ebb. Dim I should not say, for the beauty of moonlight forgotten in the park here once more flowed in upon perception. High she rode, and calm and stainlessly she shone.
It might be some fifteen years after these distressing events had agitated the little village of Craythorpe, that an elderly woman, of mild and cheerful aspect, sat calmly reading a large volume she supported against the railing of a noble vessel, that was steering its course from the shores of "merrie England" to some land far over the sea.
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