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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: A Masque of Days + From the Last Essays of Elia: Newly Dressed & Decorated + +Author: Walter Crane + +Release Date: December 24, 2007 [EBook #24015] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A MASQUE OF DAYS *** + + + + +Produced by Anne Storer and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + +Transcriber's Note: Each paragraph is contained +within a full-page illustration, so the +illustration tags within the text have +been removed to avoid congestion. + + + * * * * * + + + A MASQUE OF DAYS + + [Illustration] + + + + + A + MASQUE + OF + DAYS + + CASSELL & COMPANY + LIMITED: LONDON: + + [Illustration] + + + + + FROM THE + LAST ESSAYS + OF ELIA: + + NEWLY DRESSED + & DECORATED + + BY + WALTER CRANE + + PARIS, NEW YORK + & MELBOURNE. 1901. + + [Illustration] + + + * * * * * + + +THE OLD YEAR being dead, and the NEW YEAR coming of age, wh: he does by +Calendar Law, as soon as the breath is out of the old gentleman's body, +nothing would serve the young spark but he must give a dinner upon the +occasion, to wh: all the Days in the year were invited. The Festivals, +whom he deputed as his stewards, were mightily taken with the notion. +They had been engaged time out of mind, they said, in providing mirth and +good cheer for mortals below; and it was time they should have a taste of +their own bounty. It was stiffly debated among them whether the Fasts +should be admitted. Some said, that the appearance of such lean, starved +guests, with their mortified faces, would pervert the ends of the meeting. +But the objection was overruled by Christmas Day who had a design upon Ash +Wednesday (as you shall hear), and a mighty desire to see how the old +Domine would behave himself in his cups. + +Only the VIGILS were requested to come with their lanterns to light the +gentlefolks home at night. + +All the Days came to their day. Covers were provided for three hundred and +sixty-five guests at the principal table; with an occasional knife and +fork at the side-board for the Twenty-Ninth of February. + +I should have told you that cards of invitation had been issued. The +carriers were THE HOURS twelve little, merry whirligig foot-pages as +you should desire to see, that went all round, and found out the persons +invited well enough, with the exception of Easter Day, Shrove Tuesday, and +a few such Moveables, who had lately shifted their quarters. + +Well, they all met at last, foul Days, fine Days, all sorts of Days, +and a rare din they made of it. There was nothing but, Hail! fellow +Day,--well met--brother Day--sister Day--only LADY DAY kept a little aloof +and seemed somewhat scornful. Yet some said, TWELFTH DAY cut her out and +out, for she came in a tiffany suit, white and gold, like a queen on a +frost-cake, all royal glittering, and Epiphanous. + +The rest came, some in green, some in white--but old Lent and his +family were not yet out of mourning. + +Rainy Days came in, dripping; and sun-shiny Days helped them to change +their stockings. + +Wedding Day was there in his marriage finery, a little the worse for +wear. + +Pay Day came late, as he always does; and Doomsday sent word--he might +be expected. + +April Fool (as my young lord's jester) took upon himself to marshal the +guests, and wild work he made with it. It would have posed old Erra Pater +to have found out any given Day in the year, to erect a scheme upon good +Days, bad Days were so shuffled together, to the confounding of all sober +horoscopy. He had stuck the Twenty-First of June next to the Twenty-Second +of December, and the former looked like a Maypole siding a marrow-bone. + +Ash Wednesday got wedged in (as was concerted) betwixt Christmas & Lord +Mayor's Days. Lord! how he laid about him! Nothing but barons of beef & +turkeys would go down with him to the great greasing & detriment of his +new sackcloth bib and tucker. And still Christmas Day was at his elbow, +plying him with the wassail-bowl, till he roared, & hiccupp'd, & +protested there was no faith in dried ling, a sour, windy, acrimonious, +censorious hy-po-crit-crit-critical mess & no dish for a gentleman. Then +he dipt his fist into the middle of the great custard that stood before +his left-hand neighbour, & daubed his hungry beard all over with it, till +you would have taken him for the Last Day in December it so hung in +icicles. + +At another part of the table, Shrove Tuesday was helping the Second of +September to some cock broth,--which courtesy the latter returned with +the delicate thigh of a hen pheasant--so there was no love lost for that +matter. + +The Last of Lent was spunging upon Shrovetide's pancakes; which April +Fool perceiving, told him he did well, for pancakes were proper to a good +fry-day. + +In another part a hubbub arose about the Thirtieth of January, who, it +seems, being a sour puritanic character, that thought nobody's meat good +or sanctified enough for him, had smuggled into the room a calf's head, +which he had had cooked at home for that purpose, thinking to feast +thereon incontinently; but as it lay in the dish March Many-weathers, +who is a very fine lady, and subject to the meagrims, screamed out there +was a "human head in the platter," and raved about Herodias' daughter to +that degree, that the obnoxious viand was obliged to be removed; nor did +she recover her stomach till she had gulped down a Restorative, confected +of Oak Apple, which the merry Twenty-Ninth of May always carries about +with him for that purpose. + +The King's health being called for after this, a notable dispute arose +between the 12th of August (a zealous old Whig gentlewoman), and the +Twenty Third of April (a new-fangled lady of the Tory stamp) as to which +of them should have the honour to propose it. + +August grew hot upon the matter, affirming time out of mind the +prescriptive right to have lain with her, till her rival basely supplanted +her; + + * * * + + April Fool being made mediator, confirmed the right in the + strongest form of words to the appellant, but decided for peace' + sake that the exercise of it should remain with the present + possessor. + + * * * + +It beginning to grow a little duskish, Candlemas lustily bawled out for +lights which was opposed by all the Days, who protested against burning +daylight. Then fair water was handed round in silver ewers, and the same +lady was observed to take an unusual time in washing herself. + +May-Day, with that sweetness which is peculiar to her, in a neat speech +proposing the health of the founder, crowned her goblet, {and by her +example the rest of the company} with garlands. This being done, the +lordly New Year from the upper end of the table, in a cordial but +somewhat lofty tone, returned thanks. He felt proud on an occasion of +meeting so many of his father's late tenants, promised to improve their +farms, & at the same time to abate {if anything was found unreasonable} in +their rents. + +At the mention of this the Four Quarter Days involuntarily looked at +each other, & smiled; April Fool whistled to an old tune of "New Brooms" & +a surly old rebel at the further end of the table {who was discovered to +be no other than the Fifth-of-November} muttered out distinctly enough to +be heard by the whole company, words to this effect, that, "when the old +one is gone, he is a fool that looks for a better." Which rudeness of his, +the guests resenting, unanimously voted his expulsion; & the malcontent +was thrust out neck & heels into the cellar, as the properest place for +such a boutefeu & firebrand as he had shewn himself to be. + +Order being restored--the young lord {who, to say truth, had been a +little ruffled & put beside his oratory} in as few, & yet as obliging +words as possible, assured them of entire welcome; &, with a graceful +turn, singling out poor Twenty-Ninth of February, that had sate all this +while mumchance at the side-board, begged to couple his health with that +of the good company before him--which he drank accordingly; observing, +that he had not seen his honest face any time these four years--with a +number of endearing expressions besides. At the same time, removing the +solitary Day from the forlorn seat which had been assigned to him, he +stationed him at his own board, somewhere between the Greek Calends and +Latter Lammas. + +Ash Wednesday, being now called upon for a song, with his eyes fast stuck +in his head, & as well as the Canary he had swallowed would give him +leave, struck up a Carol, which Christmas Day had taught him for the +nonce; & was followed by the latter, who gave "Miserere" in fine style, +hitting off the mumping notes & lengthened drawl of Old Mortification with +infinite humour. + + [April Fool swore they had exchanged conditions; but Good + Friday was observed to look extremely grave; & Sunday held her fan + before her face, that she might not be seen to smile.] + +Shrove tide, Lord Mayor's Day, and April Fool, next joined in a glee-- + + Which is the properest day to drink? + +in which all the days chiming in, made a merry burden. + +They next fell to quibbles & conumdrums. + +The question being proposed, who had the greatest number of followers--the +Quarter Days said, there could be no question as to that; for they had all +the creditors in the world dogging their heels. But April Fool gave it in +favour of the Forty Days before Easter; because the debtors in all cases +outnumbered the creditors, & they kept _lent_ all the year round. + +All this while Valentine's Day kept courting pretty May, who sate next +him, slipping amorous billets-doux under the table, till the Dog Days +{who are naturally of a warm constitution} began to bark and rage +exceedingly. + +April Fool, who likes a bit of sport above measure, & had some +pretensions to the lady besides as being but a cousin once +removed,--clapped & halloo'd them on; and as fast as their indignation +cooled those mad wag's, the Ember Days, were at it with their bellows, to +blow it into a flame; & all was in a ferment: till old Madame Septuagesima +{who boasts herself the Mother of the Days} wisely diverted the +conversation with a tedious tale of the lovers which she could reckon +when she was young; & of one Master Rogation Day in particular, who was +for ever putting the question to her; but she kept him at a distance, as +the chronicle wd: tell--by which I apprehend she meant the Almanack. + +Then she rambled on to the Days that were gone, the good old Days, & so to +the Days before the Flood--which plainly showed her old head to be little +better than crazed & doited. + +Day being ended, the Days called for their cloaks & great-coats & took +their leaves. + +Lord Mayor's Day went off in a mist as usual; Shortest Day in a deep black +Fog that wrapt the little gentleman all round like a hedgehog. Two +Vigils--so watchmen are called in heaven--saw Christmas Day safe +home--they had been used to the business before. Another Vigil--a stout, +sturdy patrole, called the Eve of St. Christopher--seeing Ash Wednesday +in a condition little better than he should be--e'en whipt him over his +shoulders, pick-a-back fashion, & Old Mortification went floating home +singing-- + + "On the bat's back do I fly," + +& a number of old snatches besides, between drunk & sober; but very few +Aves or Penitentiaries {you may believe me} were among them. Longest Day +set off westward in beautiful crimson & gold--the rest, some in one +fashion, some in another; but Valentine & pretty May took their departure +together in one of the prettiest silvery twilights a Lover's Day could +wish to set in. + + + FINIS + + [Illustration] + + FINIS + + [Illustration] + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Masque of Days, by Walter Crane + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A MASQUE OF DAYS *** + +***** This file should be named 24015.txt or 24015.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/4/0/1/24015/ + +Produced by Anne Storer and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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