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Updated: May 23, 2025
On the return of her birth-day, February 22, when if she had lived, she would have been seven years old, the following lines were sent to the bereaved mother by Mrs. Sigourney. Thy first born's birth-day, mother! That cold and wintry time, When deep and unimagined joy Swell'd to its highest prime.
But they had early learned that when a minor correction was demanded by their first- born's character, it was almost impossible to effect it. His standard of behavior was high, fortunately, for it was also unalterable. There was no hope of their grafting upon his conscience any new roots.
And all went well, and would have continued to go well, had not Lamai's mother, Lenerengo, just awakened, stepped across her black litter of progeny and raised her voice in shrill protest against her eldest born's introducing of one more mouth and much more nuisance into the household. A squabble of human speech followed, of which Jerry knew no word but of which he sensed the significance.
Never yet did mother stand by her first born's bier and say, "Thank God for Death that bringeth to my beloved eternal Life."
'They greatly admire a sirvente of Bertran de Born's, sire. 'What is the stuff of the sirvente? 'It is a scandalous subject, sire. He calls it the Sirvente of Kings, and speaks much evil of your Order. Richard laughed. 'I will warrant him to do that better than any man alive, and allow him some reason for it. I think I will go to see Bertran.
God willing, Saint Maclou assisting, he might live to call Jehane 'My Lady Queen. He shut his ears to report; there were those who called Richard a rake, and others who called him 'Yea-and-Nay'; that was Bertran de Born's name for him, and all Paris knew it. He shut his eyes to Richard's galling unconcern with himself and his dignity. Dignity of Saint-Pol! He would wait for his dignity.
These circumstances are sufficient to account for the warlike nature of Bertran de Born's poetry. The first sirventes which can be dated with certainty belongs to 1181, and is a call to the allies of Raimon V, Count of Toulouse, to aid their master against the King of Aragon. What Bertran's personal share in the campaign was, we do not know.
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