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Updated: May 22, 2025
Guilty wretches with a load of crime upon their consciences desperate as far as this world was concerned, and ready for any act of wickedness should the occasion arrive shuddered lest they should go down to burning flame for ever now that there was none to shrive them or to give the viaticum to any late penitent in his agony.
Each man forth-right take shrift of all his sins, each man shrive other, as if it were his brother, and every good knight take on him much shrift, and God we shall promise to amend our sins. And at the midnight prepare us to fight, these heathen hounds account us all here bound.
Will it never shrive itself and understand itself, and turn fiercely and energetically toward the building of a bigger and cleaner race of men?" "It won't unless you help," came the answer from some hidden part of him.
How could I answer but with laughter? "You are a leopard, and a lamb, and a bantam cock all in one," I jeered at him. "No wonder that I feel you need a priest to shrive you;" and I laughed again, and would not notice the hurt shining of his eyes as I went away. I had not vaunted idly when I told the prisoner that our plans were ready.
But when the old priest heard that Don John of Austria was suddenly dying in his room and that there was no one to shrive him, for that was the tale Adonis told, he trembled from head to foot like a paralytic, and the buttons of his cassock became as drops of quicksilver and slipped from his weak fingers everywhere except into the buttonholes, so that the dwarf had to fasten them for him in a furious hurry, and find his stole, and set his hat upon his head, and polish away the tears of excitement from his cheeks with his own silk handkerchief.
"Aye, I said to Pat it was ye as ye went down, priest or not. I've heard of ye, and the mon that could shrive Yankee Sam is a good enough priest for any mon. Now, me boy Tim is dying, the only son of his mother, and she in her grave. And Tim and me, we live alone in the hut back of Finnigan's saloon. Tim's a frail lad.
"Now," quoth he, "I would that I had a priest here to shrive you; but, as none is nigh, you must e'en travel your road with all your sins packed upon your backs, and trust to Saint Peter to let you in through the gates of Paradise like three peddlers into the town." In the meantime, while all this had been going forward, an old man had drawn near and stood leaning on his staff, looking on.
"I do not; but I assume he died without absolution, for there is no priest who, knowing his name, would dare to shrive him, and if one should do it in ignorance of his name and excommunication, why then it is not done at all.
"'Conclamatum est, poculatum est'," said Prior Aymer; "we have drunk and we have shouted, it were time we left our wine flagons." "The monk hath some fair penitent to shrive to-night, that he is in such a hurry to depart," said De Bracy. "Not so, Sir Knight," replied the Abbot; "but I must move several miles forward this evening upon my homeward journey."
You can, therefore, be trusted with our secret, a secret which will never go beyond those present. You are here to shrive a man about to die."
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