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Chastity Essential to the Dignity of Love The Eighteenth Century Revolt Against the Ideal of Chastity Unnatural Forms of Chastity The Psychological Basis of Asceticism Asceticism and Chastity as Savage Virtues The Significance of Tahiti Chastity Among Barbarous Peoples Chastity Among the Early Christians Struggles of the Saints with the Flesh The Romance of Christian Chastity Its Decay in Mediæval Times Aucassin et Nicolette and the new Romance of Chaste Love The Unchastity of the Northern Barbarians The Penitentials Influence of the Renaissance and the Reformation The Revolt Against Virginity as a Virtue The Modern Conception of Chastity as a Virtue The Influences That Favor the Virtue of Chastity Chastity as a Discipline The Value of Chastity for the Artist Potency and Impotence in Popular Estimation The Correct Definitions of Asceticism and Chastity.
So Nicolette was imprisoned high in a painted chamber. But the enemy were storming the town, and, for the promise of "one word or two with Nicolette, and one kiss," Aucassin armed himself and led out his men. But he was all adream about Nicolette, and his horse bore him into the press of foes ere he knew it. Then he heard them contriving his death, and woke out of his dream.
For, although Aucassin and Nicolette are often separated, and always disconsolate she in her wonderfully frescoed vaulted room, he in his town prison there is always surrounding them a sort of fairy land of trees and flowers, a constant song of birds; although they wander through the woods and tear their delicate skin, and catch their hair in brambles and briars, we have always the sense of the daisies bending beneath their tread, of the green leaves rustling aside from their heads covered with hair "blond et menu crespelé."
Several of them have been introduced upon the stage, and others formed the originals of Parnell's "Hermit," of the "Zaire" of Voltaire, and of the "Renard," which Goethe has converted into a long poem. But perhaps the most interesting and celebrated of all the fabliaux is that of "Aucassin and Nicolette," which has furnished the subject for a well-known opera.
"She came to the garden-gate and opened it, and walked through the streets of Beaucaire, keeping on the dark side of the way to avoid the light of the moon, which shone quietly in the sky. She walked as fast as she could, until she came to the tower where Aucassin was. The tower was set about with pillars, here and there.
But Aucassin learns at least that Nicolette is in the wood, and he rides at adventure after her, till the thorns have ruined his silken surcoat, and the blood, dripping from his torn body, makes a visible track in the grass. So, as he wept, he met a monstrous man of the wood, that asked him why he lamented. And he said he was sorrowing for a lily-white hound that he had lost.
But at first they took Nicolette for a fee, such a beauty shone so brightly from her, and lit up all the forest. Aucassin they banter; and indeed the free talk of the peasants to their lord's son in that feudal age sounds curiously, and may well make us reconsider our notions of early feudalism.
Yes, while they sing Provençals, minnesingers, Sicilians, sing of their earthly lady and of their paramour in heaven the hideous peasant, whose naked granny is starving on the straw, looks on with dull and tearless eyes; crying out to posterity, as the serf cries to Aucassin: "Woe to those who shall sorrow at the tears of such as these."
Of late years, however, works by August Enna, a young Danish composer, have been performed in various German towns. 'Die Hexe' and 'Cleopatra' won a good deal of success, but the composer's more recent operas, 'Aucassin und Nicolette' and 'Das Streichholzmädel, have met with little favour.
The Zeta Alpha Masque of 1913, a charming dramatization in verse of an old Hindu legend by Elizabeth McClellan of the class of 1913, was one of the notable events of Commencement time, a pageant of poetic beauty and oriental dignity; and in 1915 Florence Wilkinson Evans's adaptation of the lovely old poem "Aucassin and Nicolette", was given for the second time.
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