RICHARD YEA-AND-NAY

Sì che a bene sperar mi era cagione
Di quella fera alla gaietta pelle.
Inf. i. 41.

NEW YORK
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON; MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.
1901

Set up and electrotyped October, 1900. Reprinted November,
December, twice, 1900; January, February, twice, 1901


Norwood Press
J.B. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith
Norwood Mass. U.S.A.

TO
HIS FRIEND
EDMUND GOSSE
(ALWAYS BENEVOLENT TO HIS INVENTION)


THIS CHRONICLE OF
ANJOU AND A NOBLE LADY
IS DEDICATED
BY
M.H.

BOOK I—THE BOOK OF YEA
EXORDIUM	PAGE
The Abbot Milo urbi el orbi, concerning the Nature of the Leopard	3
CHAPTER I
Of Count Richard, and the Fires by Night	5
CHAPTER II
How the Fair Jehane bestowed herself	18
CHAPTER III
In what Harbour they found the Old Lion	29
CHAPTER IV
How Jehane stroked what Alois had made Fierce	41
CHAPTER V
How Bertran de Born and Count Richard strove in a Tenzon	56
CHAPTER VI
Fruits of the Tenzon: the Back of Saint-Pol, and the Front of Montferrat	69
CHAPTER VII
Of the Crackling of Thorns under Pots	84
CHAPTER VIII
How they held Richard off from his Father's Throat	93
CHAPTER IX
Wild Work in the Church of Gisors	102
CHAPTER X
Night-work by the Dark Tower	111
CHAPTER XI
Of Prophecy; and Jehane in the Perilous Bed	123
CHAPTER XII
How they bayed the Old Lion	134
CHAPTER XIII
How they met at Fontevrault	145
CHAPTER XIV
Of what King Richard said to the Bowing Rood; and what Jehane to King Richard	156
CHAPTER XV
Last Tenzon of Bertran de Born	168
CHAPTER XVI
Conversation in England of Jehane the Fair	179
CHAPTER XVII
Frozen Heart and Red Heart: Cahors	193
BOOK II—THE BOOK OF NAY
CHAPTER I
The Chapter called Mate-Grifon	209
CHAPTER II
Of what Jehane looked for, and what Berengère had	220
CHAPTER III
Who Fought at Acre	235