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diff --git a/5283.txt b/5283.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..28fc504 --- /dev/null +++ b/5283.txt @@ -0,0 +1,862 @@ +The Project Gutenberg Ebook Belphegor &c., by Jean de La Fontaine +#9 in our series by Jean de La Fontaine (The Tales and Novels) + +Copyright laws are changing all over the world. Be sure to check the +copyright laws for your country before downloading or redistributing +this or any other Project Gutenberg eBook. + +This header should be the first thing seen when viewing this Project +Gutenberg file. Please do not remove it. Do not change or edit the +header without written permission. + +Please read the "legal small print," and other information about the +eBook and Project Gutenberg at the bottom of this file. Included is +important information about your specific rights and restrictions in +how the file may be used. 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DE LA FONTAINE + + + + Volume 9. + + Contains: + Belphegor + The Little Bell + The Glutton] + + + + BELPHEGOR + ADDRESSED TO MISS DE CHAMMELAY + + + YOUR name with ev'ry pleasure here I place, + The last effusions of my muse to grace. + O charming Phillis! may the same extend + Through time's dark night: our praise together blend; + To this we surely may pretend to aim + Your acting and my rhymes attention claim. + Long, long in mem'ry's page your fame shall live; + You, who such ecstacy so often give; + O'er minds, o'er hearts triumphantly you reign: + In Berenice, in Phaedra, and Chimene, + Your tears and plaintive accents all engage: + Beyond compare in proud Camilla's rage; + Your voice and manner auditors delight; + Who strong emotions can so well excite? + No fine eulogium from my pen expect: + With you each air and grace appear correct + My first of Phillis's you ought to be; + My sole affection had been placed on thee; + Long since, had I presumed the truth to tell; + But he who loves would fain be loved as well. + + NO hope of gaining such a charming fair, + Too soon, perhaps, I ceded to despair; + Your friend, was all I ventured to be thought, + Though in your net I more than half was caught. + Most willingly your lover I'd have been; + But time it is our story should be seen. + + ONE, day, old Satan, sov'reign dread of hell; + Reviewed his subjects, as our hist'ries tell; + The diff'rent ranks, confounded as they stood, + Kings, nobles, females, and plebeian blood, + Such grief expressed, and made such horrid cries, + As almost stunned, and filled him with surprise. + The monarch, as he passed, desired to know + The cause that sent each shade to realms below. + Some said--my HUSBAND; others WIFE replied; + The same was echoed loud from ev'ry side. + + His majesty on this was heard to say: + If truth these shadows to my ears convey, + With ease our glory we may now augment: + I'm fully bent to try th' experiment. + With this design we must some demon send, + Who wily art with prudence well can blend; + And, not content with watching Hymen's flock, + Must add his own experience to the stock. + + THE sable senate instantly approved + The proposition that the monarch moved; + Belphegor was to execute the work; + The proper talent in him seemed to lurk: + All ears and eyes, a prying knave in grain + In short, the very thing they wished to gain. + + THAT he might all expense and cost defray, + They gave him num'rous bills without delay, + And credit too, in ev'ry place of note, + With various things that might their plan promote. + He was, besides, the human lot to fill, + Of pleasure and of pain:--of good and ill; + In fact, whate'er for mortals was designed, + With his legation was to be combined. + He might by industry and wily art, + His own afflictions dissipate in part; + But die he could not, nor his country see, + Till he ten years complete on earth should be. + + BEHOLD him trav'lling o'er th' extensive space; + Between the realms of darkness and our race. + To pass it, scarcely he a moment took; + On Florence instantly he cast a look;-- + Delighted with the beauty of the spot, + He there resolved to fix his earthly lot, + Regarding it as proper for his wiles, + A city famed for wanton freaks and guiles. + Belphegor soon a noble mansion hired, + And furnished it with ev'ry thing desired; + As signor Roderick he designed to pass; + His equipage was large of ev'ry class; + Expense anticipating day by day, + What, in ten years, he had to throw away. + + HIS noble entertainments raised surprise; + Magnificence alone would not suffice; + Delightful pleasures he dispensed around, + And flattery abundantly was found, + An art in which a demon should excel: + No devil surely e'er was liked so well. + His heart was soon the object of the FAIR; + To please Belphegor was their constant care. + + WHO lib'rally with presents smoothes the road, + Will meet no obstacles to LOVE'S abode. + In ev'ry situation they are sweet, + I've often said, and now the same repeat: + The primum mobile of human kind, + Are gold and silver, through the world we find. + + OUR envoy kept two books, in which he wrote + The names of all the married pairs of note; + But that assigned to couples satisfied, + He scarcely for it could a name provide, + Which made the demon almost blush to see, + How few, alas! in wedlock's chains agree; + While presently the other, which contained + Th' unhappy--not a leaf in blank remained. + + No other choice Belphegor now had got, + Than--try himself the hymeneal knot. + In Florence he beheld a certain fair, + With charming face and smart engaging air; + Of noble birth, but puffed with empty pride; + Some marks of virtue, though not much beside. + For Roderick was asked this lofty dame; + The father said Honesta* (such her name) + Had many eligible offers found; + But, 'mong the num'rous band that hovered round, + Perhaps his daughter, Rod'rick's suit might take, + Though he should wish for time the choice to make. + This approbation met, and Rod'rick 'gan + To use his arts and execute his plan. + + THE entertainments, balls, and serenades, + Plays, concerts, presents, feasts, and masquerades, + Much lessened what the demon with him brought; + He nothing grudged:--whate'er was wished he bought. + The dame believed high honour she bestowed, + When she attention to his offer showed; + And, after prayers, entreaties, and the rest, + To be his wife she full assent expressed. + + BUT first a pettifogger to him came, + Of whom (aside) Belphegor made a game; + What! said the demon, is a lady gained + just like a house?--these scoundrels have obtained + Such pow'r and sway, without them nothing's done; + But hell will get them when their course is run. + He reasoned properly; when faith's no more, + True honesty is forced to leave the door; + When men with confidence no longer view + Their fellow-mortals,--happiness adieu! + The very means we use t' escape the snare, + Oft deeper plunge us in the gulph of care; + Avoid attorneys, if you comfort crave + Who knows a PETTIFOGGER, knows a KNAVE; + Their contracts, filled with IFS and FORS, appear + The gate through which STRIFE found admittance here. + In vain we hope again the earth 'twill leave + Still STRIFE remains, and we ourselves deceive: + In spite of solemn forms and laws we see, + That LOVE and HYMEN often disagree. + The heart alone can tranquilize the mind; + In mutual passion ev'ry bliss we find. + + HOW diff'rent things in other states appear! + With friends--'tis who can be the most sincere; + With lovers--all is sweetness, balm of life; + While all is IRKSOMENESS with man and wife. + We daily see from DUTY springs disgust, + And PLEASURE likes true LIBERTY to trust. + + ARE happy marriages for ever flown? + On full consideration I will own, + That when each other's follies couples bear; + They then deserve the name of HAPPY PAIR. + + ENOUGH of this:--no sooner had our wight + The belle possessed, and passed the month's delight; + But he perceived what marriage must be here, + With such a demon in our nether sphere. + For ever jars and discords rang around; + Of follies, ev'ry class our couple found; + Honesta often times such noise would make, + Her screams and cries the neighbours kept awake, + Who, running thither, by the wife were told:-- + Some paltry tradesman's daughter, coarse and bold, + He should have had:--not one of rank like me; + To treat me thus, what villain he must be! + A wife so virtuous, could he e'er deserve! + My scruples are too great, or I should swerve; + Indeed, without dispute, 'twould serve him right:-- + We are not sure she nothing did in spite; + These prudes can make us credit what they please: + Few ponder long when they can dupe with ease. + + THIS wife and husband, as our hist'ries say, + Each moment squabbled through the passing day; + Their disagreements often would arise + About a petticoat, cards, tables, pies, + Gowns, chairs, dice, summer-houses, in a word, + Things most ridiculous and quite absurd. + + WELL might this spouse regret his Hell profound, + When he considered what he'd met on ground. + To make our demon's wretchedness complete, + Honesta's relatives, from ev'ry street, + He seemed to marry, since he daily fed + The father, mother, sister (fit to wed,) + And little brother, whom he sent to school; + While MISS he portioned to a wealthy fool. + + His utter ruin, howsoe'er, arose + From his attorney-steward that he chose. + What's that? you ask--a wily sneaking knave, + Who, while his master spends, contrives to save; + Till, in the end, grown rich, the lands he buys, + Which his good lord is forced to sacrifice. + + IF, in the course of time, the master take + The place of steward, and his fortune make, + 'Twould only to their proper rank restore, + Those who become just what they were before. + + POOR Rod'rick now no other hope had got, + Than what the chance of traffick might allot; + Illusion vain, or doubtful at the best:-- + Though some grow rich, yet all are not so blessed. + 'Twas said our husband never would succeed; + And truly, such it seemed to be decreed. + His agents (similar to those we see + In modern days) were with his treasure free; + His ships were wrecked; his commerce came to naught; + Deceived by knaves, of whom he well had thought; + Obliged to borrow money, which to pay, + He was unable at th' appointed day, + He fled, and with a farmer shelter took, + Where he might hope the bailiffs would not look. + + HE told to Matthew, (such the farmer's name,) + His situation, character, and fame: + By duns assailed, and harassed by a wife, + Who proved the very torment of his life, + He knew no place of safety to obtain, + Like ent'ring other bodies, where 'twas plain, + He might escape the catchpole's prowling eye, + Honesta's wrath, and all her rage defy. + From these he promised he would thrice retire; + Whenever Matthew should the same desire: + Thrice, but no more, t'oblige this worthy man, + Who shelter gave when from the fiends he ran. + + THE AMBASSADOR commenced his form to change:-- + From human frame to frame he 'gan to range; + But what became his own fantastick state, + Our books are silent, nor the facts relate. + + AN only daughter was the first he seized, + Whose charms corporeal much our demon pleased; + But Matthew, for a handsome sum of gold, + Obliged him, at a word, to quit his hold. + This passed at Naples--next to Rome he came, + Where, with another fair, he did the same; + But still the farmer banished him again, + So well he could the devil's will restrain; + Another weighty purse to him was paid + Thrice Matthew drove him out from belle and maid. + + THE king of Naples had a daughter fair, + Admired, adored:--her parents' darling care; + In wedlock oft by many princes sought; + Within her form, the wily demon thought + He might be sheltered from Honesta's rage; + And none to drive him thence would dare engage. + + NAUGHT else was talked of, in or out of town, + But devils driven by the cunning clown; + Large sums were offered, if, by any art, + He'd make the demon from the fair depart. + + AFFLICTED much was Matthew, now to lose + The gold thus tendered, but he could not choose, + For since Belphegor had obliged him thrice, + He durst not hope the demon to entice; + Poor man was he, a sinner, who, by chance, + (He knew not how, it surely was romance,) + Had some few devils, truly, driven out: + Most worthy of contempt without a doubt. + But all in vain:--the man they took by force; + Proceed he must, or hanged he'd be of course. + + THE demon was before our farmer placed; + The sight was by the prince in person graced; + The wond'rous contest numbers ran to see, + And all the world spectators fain would be. + + IF vanquished by the devil:--he must swing; + If vanquisher:--'twould thousands to him bring: + The gallows was, no doubt, a horrid view; + Yet, at the purse, his glances often flew; + The evil spirit laughed within his sleeve, + To see the farmer tremble, fret, and grieve. + He pleaded that the wight he'd thrice obeyed; + The demon was by Matthew often prayed; + But all in vain,--the more he terror showed, + The more Belphegor ridicule bestowed. + + AT length the clown was driven to declare, + The fiend he was unable to ensnare; + Away they Matthew to the gallows led; + But as he went, it entered in his head, + And, in a sort of whisper he averred + (As was in fact the case) a drum he heard. + + THE demon, with surprise, to Matthew cried; + What noise is that? Honesta, he replied, + Who you demands, and every where pursues, + The spouse who treats her with such vile abuse. + + THESE words were thunder to Belphegor's ears, + Who instantly took flight, so great his fears; + To hell's abyss he fled without delay, + To tell adventures through the realms of day. + Sire, said the demon, it is clearly true, + Damnation does the marriage knot pursue. + Your highness often hither sees arrive, + Not squads, but regiments, who, when alive, + By Hymen were indissolubly tied:-- + In person I the fact have fully tried. + Th' institution, perhaps, most just could be: + Past ages far more happiness might see; + But ev'ry thing, with time, corruption shows; + No jewel in your crown more lustre throws. + + BELPHEGOR'S tale by Satan was believed; + Reward he got: the term, which-sorely grieved, + Was now reduced; indeed, what had he done, + That should prevent it?--If away he'd run, + Who would not do the same who weds a shrew? + Sure worse below the devil never knew! + A brawling woman's tongue, what saint can bear? + E'en Job, Honesta would have taught despair. + + WHAT is the inference? you ask:--I'll tell;-- + Live single, if you know you are well; + But if old Hymen o'er your senses reign, + Beware Honestas, or you'll rue the chain. + + * By this character La Fontaine is supposed to + have meant his own wife. + + + + + + + THE LITTLE BELL + + + HOW weak is man! how changeable his mind! + His promises are naught, too oft we find; + I vowed (I hope in tolerable verse,) + Again no idle story to rehearse. + And whence this promise?--Not two days ago; + I'm quite confounded; better I should know: + A rhymer hear then, who himself can boast, + Quite steady for--a minute at the most. + The pow'rs above could PRUDENCE ne'er design; + For those who fondly court the SISTERS NINE. + Some means to please they've got, you will confess; + But none with certainty the charm possess. + If, howsoever, I were doomed to find + Such lines as fully would content the mind: + Though I should fail in matter, still in art; + I might contrive some pleasure to impart. + + LET'S see what we are able to obtain:-- + A bachelor resided in Touraine. + A sprightly youth, who oft the maids beset, + And liked to prattle to the girls he met, + With sparkling eyes, white teeth, and easy air, + Plain russet petticoat and flowing hair, + Beside a rivulet, while Io round, + With little bell that gave a tinkling sound, + On herbs her palate gratified at will, + And gazed and played, and fondly took her fill. + + AMONG the rustic nymphs our spark perceived + A charming girl, for whom his bosom heaved; + Too young, however, to feel the poignant smart, + By Cupid oft inflicted on the heart. + I will not say thirteen's an age unfit + The contrary most fully I admit; + The LAW supposes (such its prudent fears) + Maturity at still more early years; + But this apparently refers to towns, + While LOVE was born for groves, and lawns, and downs. + + THE youth exerted ev'ry art to please; + But all in vain: he only seemed to teaze: + Whate'er he said, however nicely graced, + Ill-humour, inexperience, or distaste, + Induced the belle, unlearned in Cupid's book; + To treat his passion with a froward look. + + BELIEVING ev'ry artifice in love + Was tolerated by the pow'rs above, + One eve he turned a heifer from the rest; + Conducted by the girl his thoughts possessed; + The others left, not counted by the fair, + (Youth seldom shows the necessary care,) + With easy, loit'ring steps the cottage sought, + Where ev'ry night they usually were brought. + + HER mother, more experienced than the maid, + Observed, that from the cattle one had strayed; + The girl was scolded much, and sent to find + The heifer indiscreetly left behind. + Fair Isabella gave a vent to tears; + Invoked sweet echo to disperse her fears: + Solicited with fervent, piercing cry, + To tell her where lorn Io she might spy, + Whose little bell the spark deprived of sound; + When he withdrew her from the herd around. + + THE lover now the tinkling metal shook; + The path that t'wards it led the charmer took. + The well known note was pleasing to her ear; + Without suspecting treachery was near, + She followed to a wood, both deep and large, + In hopes at least she might regain her charge. + + GUESS her surprise, good reader, when she heard, + A lover's voice, who would not be deterred. + Said he, fair maid whene'er the heart's on fire, + 'Tis all permitted that can quench desire. + On this, with piercing cries she rent the air; + But no one came:--she sunk to dire despair. + + YE beauteous dames avoid the Sylvan shade; + Dread dangers solitary woods pervade. + + + + + + + THE GLUTTON + + + A STURGEON, once, a glutton famed was led + To have for supper--all, except the head. + With wond'rous glee he feasted on the fish; + And quickly swallowed down the royal dish. + O'ercharged, howe'er, his stomach soon gave way; + And doctors were required without delay. + + THE danger imminent, his friends desired + He'd settle ev'ry thing affairs required. + Said he, in that respect I'm quite prepared; + And, since my time so little is declared, + With diligence, I earnestly request, + The sturgeon's head you'll get me nicely dressed. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +Avoid attorneys, if you comfort crave +Few ponder long when they can dupe with ease +He who loves would fain be loved as well + + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TALES AND NOVELS OF FONTAINE, V9 *** + +*********** This file should be named 5283.txt or 5283.zip ********** + +This eBook was produced by David Widger <widger@cecomet.net> + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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