Bernard Capes

Name: A Jay of Italy — Chapter 1
Author: Bernard Capes

A Jay of Italy — Chapter 1 (1905)

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“A Jay of Italy — Chapter 1”, published in 1905, is a work by Bernard Capes. It explores elements such as Parablist, Lanti and landlord.

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Bernard Capes, A Jay of Italy — Chapter 1 (1905)

“ Set a saint, I say, to catch a saint.'
The other laughed louder.
'The right sort of saint for that, I trow, from Giuseppe's loins.'
'Nay, good my lord, the Lord Abbot himself is no less a saint.'
'What!' roared Lanti, 'saints all around! This is the right hagiolatry, where I need never despair of a niche for myself. I too am the son of my father, dear Messer Ciacco, as this Parablist is, I'll protest, of your Abbot, whose piety is an old story. What! you don't recognise a family likeness?'
The landlord abased himself between deference and roguery. ”

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Bernard Capes, A Jay of Italy — Chapter 1 (1905)

“ The lady laughed, and, stirring a little, watched the page curiously. But the boy had scarcely reached the ground when the landlord appeared bowing at the door. The cavalier fumed.
'Ciacco—hog!' he thundered: 'did you not hear us call?'
'Illustrious, no.'
'Where were your ears? Nailed to the pillory?'
'Nay, Magnificent, but to the utterances of the little Parablist of San Zeno.'
'O hog! now by the Mass, I say, they had been better pricked to thy business. O ciacco, I tell thee thy Parablist was like, in another moment, to have addressed thee out of a burning bush. What! I would drink, swine! ”

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Bernard Capes, A Jay of Italy — Chapter 1 (1905)

“ With an oath Lanti brought down his whip with such fury that the fool rolled in the dust.
'Drunken dog!' he roared, and would have ridden over the writhing body, had not Bembo backed the white palfrey to prevent him.
'Thou strik'st the livery, not the man!' he cried. 'Hast never thyself been drunk, and without the excuse of this poor fool to make a trade of folly?'
Messer Lanti glared, then in a moment laughed. The battered grasshopper took advantage of the diversion to rise and slink to the rear. The next moment the whole cavalcade was in motion. ”

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Bernard Capes, A Jay of Italy — Chapter 1 (1905)

“ The blessed Fathers themselves teach us that the best holiness lacks education.'
Madonna laughed out a little. 'This is a very good fool!' she murmured, and yawned.
'I don't know about that,' said Lanti, answering the landlord, and wagging his sage head. 'I'm not the most pious of men myself. But tell us, sirrah, how travels his innocence?'
'On foot, my lord, like a prophet's.'
''Twill the sooner lie prone.' He turned to my lady. 'Wouldst like to add him to Cicada and thy monkey, and carry him along with us?'
'Nay,' she said pettishly, 'I have enough of monstrosities. ”

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Bernard Capes, A Jay of Italy — Chapter 1 (1905)

“ We walk in joy since the Resurrection, and Limbo is emptied of its gloom. The kingdom of man shall be love, and the government thereof. Preach heresy in rags. 'Twas the Lord Abbot equipped me thus, my own stout heart prevailing. ”

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Bernard Capes, A Jay of Italy — Chapter 1 (1905)

“ He mouths parables as it were prick-songs, and is esteemed among all for a saint.'
'A fair saint, i'faith, to be carousing in a tavern.'
'O my lord! he but lies here an hour from the sun, on his way, this very morning, to Milan, whither he vouches he has had a call. And for his carousing, spring water is it all, and the saints to pay, as I know to my cost.'
'He should have stopped at the rill, methinks.'
'He will stop at nothing,' protested the landlord humbly; 'nay, not even the rebuking by his parables of our most illustrious lord, the Duke Galeazzo himself.'
Lanti guffawed. ”

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Bernard Capes, A Jay of Italy — Chapter 1 (1905)

“ Will you keep me in the sun all day?'
'Well,' said Lanti, gathering his reins, 'it puzzles me only how the Abbot could part thus with his discretion.'
'Nay, Illustrious,' answered the landlord, 'he was in a grievous pet, 'tis stated. But, there! prophecy will no more be denied than love. A' must out or kill. ”

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