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Updated: June 9, 2025
'Ten to one they're dead, or removed, or something or other by this time; and it'll serve you right if they are. Mind! no one can be chosen twice to be a bedesman of St Sepulchre's. The warden turned away; and Philip, uneasy at staying, disheartened at leaving, went to make his few preparations for setting out once more on his journey northwards.
'Well! said the warden, thinking he perceived the real state of things, 'what I propose is this. You shall go into old Dobson's house at once, as a kind of probationary bedesman. I'll write to Harry, and get your character from him. Stephen Freeman I think you said your name was?
"I'll climb up the cliff again," said Lovel, "and call for more assistance." "If ye gang, I'll gang too," said the bedesman. "Hark! hark!" said Lovel. "Did I not hear a halloo?" The unmistakable shout of human voices from above was soon augmented, and the gleam of torches appeared. On the verge of the precipice an anxious group had now assembled.
He therefore uttered with a hasty and trembling voice "Your lordship's honour is mistaken I am not of your persuasion, nor a clergyman, but, with all reverence, only puir Edie Ochiltree, the king's bedesman and your honour's."
"Dell be in my feet then," answered the bedesman sturdily; "if ye gang, I'll gang too; for between the twa o' us, we'll hae mair than wark eneugh to get to the tap o' the heugh." "No, no stay you here and attend to Miss Wardour you see Sir Arthur is quite exhausted." "Stay yoursell then, and I'll gae," said the old man; "let death spare the green corn and take the ripe."
The gauger and schoolmaster united their rhetoric, to prove to the constable and his assistant that he had no right to arrest the king's bedesman as a vagrant; and the mute eloquence of the miller and smith, which was vested in their clenched fists, was prepared to give Highland bail for their arbiter; his blue gown, they said, was his warrant for travelling the country.
'tis a mere bedesman; and bending forward to pour a handful of silver into the beggar's cap, he said, 'Pray, Gaffer, pray pray for the dead and living, both. 'So, said James, as both mounted, 'there's a fee for a boding traitor. 'I knew his face, said Bedford, with a shudder; 'he belonged to Archbishop Scrope. 'A traitor, too, said James. 'Nay, there was too much cause for his words.
"I was only coming to ask after your reverence," said the old bedesman, touching his hat; "and to inquire about the news from London," he added after a pause. The warden winced, and put his hand to his forehead and felt bewildered.
Oh, lovely ghost," said the fearless knight, "Can the sword of a warrior set it right? Or prayer of bedesman, praying mild, As a cup of water a feverish child, Sooth thee at last, in dreamless mood To sleep the sleep a dead lady should? Thine eyes they fill me with longing sore, As if I had known thee for evermore. Oh, lovely ghost, I could leave the day To sit with thee in the moon away
They give a penny to the poor man, and keep twenty nobles for themselves. They take field after field, house after house; turn the farmer into the beggar, and the beggar into their bedesman. And, by God! I say that the sooner King Henry gets rid of the crew, the better for you and me!" Ralph snapped out the last words, and stared insolently down on the gaping faces.
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