[Illustration: Ornate lettering/text The MM Co.] THE LIFE AND DEATH OF RICHARD YEA-AND-NAY BY MAURICE HEWLETT AUTHOR OF "THE FOREST LOVERS," "LITTLE NOVELS OF ITALY," ETC. 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. 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 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 CHAPTER IV Concerning the Tower of Flies, Saint-Pol, and the Marquess of Montferrat 248 CHAPTER V The Chapter of Forbidding: how De Gurdun looked, and King Richard hid his Face 262 CHAPTER VI