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Title: The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay

Author: Maurice Hewlett

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THE LIFE AND DEATH
OF
RICHARD YEA-AND-NAY

BY
MAURICE HEWLETT

AUTHOR OF "THE FOREST LOVERS," "LITTLE NOVELS
OF ITALY," ETC.

Si 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.

CONTENTS

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