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第35章 Ballad: Hongree And Mahry.

A Recollection Of A Surrey

Melodrama

The sun was setting in its wonted west,

When HONGREE, Sub-Lieutenant of Chassoores,Met MAHRY DAUBIGNY, the Village Rose,

Under the Wizard's Oak - old trysting-placeOf those who loved in rosy Aquitaine.

They thought themselves unwatched, but they were not;For HONGREE, Sub-Lieutenant of Chassoores,Found in LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JOOLES DUBOSCA rival, envious and unscrupulous,

Who thought it not foul scorn to dodge his steps,And listen, unperceived, to all that passedBetween the simple little Village Rose

And HONGREE, Sub-Lieutenant of Chassoores.

A clumsy barrack-bully was DUBOSC,

Quite unfamiliar with the well-bred tact

That animates a proper gentleman

In dealing with a girl of humble rank.

You'll understand his coarseness when I sayHe would have married MAHRY DAUBIGNY,

And dragged the unsophisticated girl

Into the whirl of fashionable life,

For which her singularly rustic ways,

Her breeding (moral, but extremely rude),Her language (chaste, but ungrammatical),Would absolutely have unfitted her.

How different to this unreflecting boor

Was HONGREE, Sub-Lieutenant of Chassoores.

Contemporary with the incident

Related in our opening paragraph,

Was that sad war 'twixt Gallia and ourselvesThat followed on the treaty signed at Troyes;And so LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JOOLES DUBOSC

(Brave soldier, he, with all his faults of style)And HONGREE, Sub-Lieutenant of Chassoores,Were sent by CHARLES of France against the linesOf our Sixth HENRY (Fourteen twenty-nine),To drive his legions out of Aquitaine.

When HONGREE, Sub-Lieutenant of Chassoores,Returned, suspecting nothing, to his camp,After his meeting with the Village Rose,

He found inside his barrack letter-box

A note from the commanding officer,

Requiring his attendance at head-quarters.

He went, and found LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JOOLES.

"Young HONGREE, Sub-Lieutenant of Chassoores,This night we shall attack the English camp:

Be the 'forlorn hope' yours - you'll lead it, sir,And lead it too with credit, I've no doubt.

As every man must certainly be killed

(For you are twenty 'gainst two thousand men),It is not likely that you will return.

But what of that? you'll have the benefitOf knowing that you die a soldier's death."Obedience was young HONGREE'S strongest point,But he imagined that he only owed

Allegiance to his MAHRY and his King.

"If MAHRY bade me lead these fated men,

I'd lead them -but I do not think she would.

If CHARLES, my King, said, 'Go, my son, and die,'

I'd go, of course - my duty would be clear.

But MAHRY is in bed asleep, I hope,

And CHARLES, my King, a hundred leagues from this.

As for LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JOOLES DUBOSC,

How know I that our monarch would approveThe order he has given me to-night?

My King I've sworn in all things to obey -I'll only take my orders from my King!"

Thus HONGREE, Sub-Lieutenant of Chassoores,Interpreted the terms of his commission.

And HONGREE, who was wise as he was good,Disguised himself that night in ample cloak,Round flapping hat, and vizor mask of black,And made, unnoticed, for the English camp.

He passed the unsuspecting sentinels

(Who little thought a man in this disguiseCould be a proper object of suspicion),

And ere the curfew bell had boomed "lights out,"He found in audience Bedford's haughty Duke.

"Your Grace," he said, "start not - be not alarmed,Although a Frenchman stands before your eyes.

I'm HONGREE, Sub-Lieutenant of Chassoores.

My Colonel will attack your camp to-night,And orders me to lead the hope forlorn.

Now I am sure our excellent KING CHARLES

Would not approve of this; but he's away

A hundred leagues, and rather more than that.

So, utterly devoted to my King,

Blinded by my attachment to the throne,

And having but its interest at heart,

I feel it is my duty to disclose

All schemes that emanate from COLONEL JOOLES,If I believe that they are not the kind

Of schemes that our good monarch would approve.""But how," said Bedford's Duke, "do you proposeThat we should overthrow your Colonel's scheme?"And HONGREE, Sub-Lieutenant of Chassoores,Replied at once with never-failing tact:

"Oh, sir, I know this cursed country well.

Entrust yourself and all your host to me;I'll lead you safely by a secret path

Into the heart of COLONEL JOOLES' array,

And you can then attack them unprepared,

And slay my fellow-countrymen unarmed."

The

thing was done.

The DUKE of BEDFORD gave

The order, and two thousand fighting men

Crept silently into the Gallic camp,

And slew the Frenchmen as they lay asleep;And Bedford's haughty Duke slew COLONEL JOOLES,And gave fair MAHRY, pride of Aquitaine,

To HONGREE, Sub-Lieutenant of Chassoores.

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