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If you are not located in the United States, you'll -have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using -this ebook. - - - -Title: The Legend of Monte della Sibilla - or, Le paradis de la reine Sibille - -Author: Clive Bell - -Release Date: January 6, 2020 [EBook #61120] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LEGEND OF MONTE DELLA SIBILLA *** - - - - -Produced by Laura Natal Rodrigues at Free Literature (Images -generously made available by Hathi Trust.) - - - - - - -THE - -LEGEND OF MONTE DELLA SIBILLA - -OR "LE PARADIS DE LA REINE SIBILLE" - -CLIVE BELL - -PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY -LEONARD AND VIRGINIA WOOLF -AT THE HOGARTH PRESS - -HOGARTH HOUSE RICHMOND -1923 - - - - -[Illustration 01] - - - - -_TO POLLY FLINDERS_ - - - - -[Illustration 02] - - - - -If you will stop and take a drink -Where I did, late one afternoon -In April, you may see turn pink -A patch of snow, which very soon -Yellows to green: it seems quite near; -But is, in fact, up Norcia way -Or further: the effect's more queer -Than beautiful: and should you say -To the _padrone_, Gian Mannino, -"What peak is that which looks so odd?" -He'll answer, "Monte Sibillino-- -But they've bunged up the hole, thank God." -Herr Hans Van Branbourg, 1310 -To 1352 or so,-- -(A period, it seems, when men -Not unlike us were apt to go -Five hundred miles to get a thrill -They might have had for sitting still),-- -Branbourg, I say, having done the lakes -And all the sights of La Toscana, -(A jaunt which now a fortnight takes, -Less then, because one skipped Verona, -"The Tomb" not having found its owner[1]), -Came southward by the Val Chiana; -Heard of the Sybil, wouldn't wait,--no, -Not a moment, at Spoleto, -But set off promptly for the cave. -The natives told him he was brave,-- -Thinking him mad. Had not a monk, -Il don Antonio Fumato, -There lost his wits, and, in a funk, -Five bold young bucks from near Fossato, -Who made the same attempt before, -At what they heard and what they saw, -(Or was that later?) quaked like jelly, -Shaming the sires of Gabrielle? -They had seen things to make saints curse,-- -A gate that kept on clipping, clipping, -(Much like a storm-door only worse,) -And bound to give you such a nipping -As nips the persons, now and then, -Of thoughtless, shunting, railway-men. -They had felt strange and ghastly winds, -They had heard strange and sudden noises, -And what in Italy one finds -More rarely, gentle, whispering voices: -'Twas woman's doing--never doubt it-- -A female influence ruled the air; -And what the coarser said about it -Was, that although when you got there -The place might seem an honest hovel, -Inside, they guessed, you'd find a brothel. - - -Indeed it was a dangerous place. -But Germans are a stubborn race, -Not to say obstinate, to boot -Are fond of ladies: Herr Van Bran -Swore that if anyone could do't -He, Hans Van Branbourg, was the man; -Pushed on to Norcia, then climbed higher, -And with him went a single squire, -Called Pons--they say an Englishman, -I hope he was, because I can -(As you I think will soon agree) -Pronounce him brave as brave can be, -Yet sensible as Sancho Panza, -Wherewith I neatly close the stanza. - - -The knight pushed on, the squire behind, -They cared not tuppence for the wind, -Nor for the strange and sudden noises, -Nor the discreetly whispering voices, -Nor all those signs which long ago -Did duty for a "_numero_". -They passed the gates of bronze. They came -To gates of crystal. Here they tapped. -A lady-porter asked their name: -Whereat the leader boldly rapped -Out that which you've already heard, viz:-- -"Herr Hans Van Branbourg, at your service." -The doors flew wide, and to their eyes -Revealed the Sibyl's paradise. - - -What saw they? Antoine de la Sale, -Who wrote _Les quinze joies_ and all -_Les cent nouvelles nouvelles_ as well, -What I could not invent can tell; -Seeing he came in 1420 -To hold an inquest on the spot, -And information got in plenty,-- -Indeed he clambered to the grot, -But only peeped inside the cavern-- -Later, however, at the tavern -He learnt the truth of what befell -Van Branbourg in the Sybil's hell. -They saw a crowd of pretty girls-- -These were the Sybil's seneschals-- -Who bade them change their dirty linen -And rigged them out "from the beginning" -(The text has _ab initio_); -Up strike the fiddles; off they go -Through pretty rooms and splendid halls -And gardens framed in sheltering walls, -The which were gay with flowers as well -As comely "_dames et demoiselles_". -Accompanied by knights and squires -In divers fashionable attires, -Much as our Longchamps beauties go -Surrounded by their _gigolos._ - - -Gaping they go; until they see -'La reine Sibylle', who from her throne -Welcomed the strangers graciously, -Observing she'd already known -Men of their race, which (_vide Tacite_) -Was honest, brave, but inficite,[2] -And only that for want of practice -In social arts and crafts. The fact is -She much admired the Teuton physique, -(I know some ladies can't abide it), -So murmured, "You're my guests for this week: -Later you'll tell me, when you've tried it, -If you'll become my _pensionnaires._ -I'll only add that we are here -Until the crack of doom. And then?" -Queried our cautious gentlemen. - - -"Then we shall see what we shall see," -Answered the lady airily, -Fobbing them off with such old saws -As rarely fail to elicit roars -Of laughter from the House and Bar, ---As "Wait and see" and "Chi lo sa"; -Then, sweetly added, "If you please, -Hear our conditions, which are these. -Who stays -Eight days -May go away the next. -On no pretext -Who stays more -May or durst -Go before -The thirty-first. -Who yet stays more -Must outstay -By one day -His fifteenth score. -Then or never: -For who stays -Further days -Stays for ever,[3] -"Further," said she, "if you will be -My guests, this Paradise of mine -Is at your service; what you see -Of fun and beauty, flowers and wine, -Is for your pleasure: also choose -Amongst my ladies who are free -(There're always plenty on the loose) -Her who most charms you. Certainly -You'll find them charming, trained to please, -To move with grace, converse with ease, -Well bred, well dressed, well read, well meant, -In all ways sweetly competent:" -Whereat squire Pons was "moult" content, -And, plucking at his master's jacket, -Said "Sir, let's stay and stand the racket." - - -They said they'd stay a week; but when -The week was up they stayed again; -Indeed "_les plaisirs étaient tels_" -Days seemed like hours in that hell: -So says La Sale, who ought to know -What pleasures seemed like years ago, -Seeing he wrote "_Les quinze joies -De Mariage_", but then, _ma foi_, -They took their pleasures[4] otherwise -Than husbands in that Paradise. - - -It was an abbey of Thelème, -Compounded with Arabian nights; -Where every sort of pretty game -And wit and wine and all delights -Were shared with pretty, clever girls, -Who never dreamed of being pals; -But were what girls should always be, -In manner prim, in fancy free. -Thus was there hope for everyone, -All were fastidious, none was prude, -Which means flirtation's ticklish fun -Supplanted dreary certitude. -There was the best of everything, -Of wine, of song, and all the rest, -The best to drink, to kiss, to sing, -And taste to know what is the best. -A match for every mood: to please -The thoughtful, cloisters; polished halls -For dancers; vines and olive trees -And rivers under ancient walls -Flowing, for every heart's delight,-- -Were there: and there was rest by day and mirth by -night. - - -Music there was in every part; -And almost always you could hear -A song or septet by Mozart, -And not a note of Meyerbeer. -There story-tellers had a way -Of being neither dull nor long -But, like Voltaire or Mérimée, -Were rarely sweet and never strong. -Perrons, parterres and green pelouses -Abounded; walks of turf and sand; -And restaurants like La Pérouse; -Fiddles and horns, and no Jazz Band. -There were no bounders and no bores, -No reach-me-downs, no general stores, -No clubs, no colonels, not a hearty -Good fellow there to spoil a party, -No district-visitor or pastor, -And not a sign of Lady Astor. -There were no 'cinemas', no groups -Of shop boys, no colonial troops, -No one who hit straight from the shoulder, -And not a season-ticket holder; -There was nor creditor nor debtor, -There was not in that pleasant land -A soul who wished to make it better, -All were content to understand -Their happiness; nay, what is more, -No lady wanted for her lover -That kind of smutty, solemn bore, -Who sick with genius, must uncover -For our souls' good his nasty sore: -Believe me there did not exist -A single, small coprologist. -So simple-minded were the ladies -In that old-fashioned Sibyl's Hades. - - -Alas I pure joy the fates forbid. -Alas! that poet's not an ass -Who has it that an _aliquid_ -_Amari_ rises in the glass -Almost invariably when we -Suppose we've cheated destiny. - - -Van Branbourg, and his British pup too, -Observed that every Friday night, -No matter what they might be up to, -The partners of their dear delight -Slipped off at twelve, upon the stroke, -And left them puzzling out the joke, -As best they might, till Monday morning; -When back their ladies came more kind, -More sweet, than ever. But this warning -Served to unsettle Branbourg's mind. -He had a Lutheran soul. What malice, -What mischief might they be about? -He tracked them to the Sybil's palace, -And there it was he found them out. -From Friday night to Monday morning, -He found these artless, frolick gadders, -Who left their lovers without warning, -Lay with their queen, asleep like adders; -Not in a peaceful girlish doze, -But serpentlike and comatose.[5] -"Pish," said the squire, "here are no evils." -The German said, "These girls are devils." - - -His northern soul was deeply stirred, -He said--"My man, it's time we went," -Which good squire Pons thought quite absurd, -And said so. "Pons, d'you know we've spent -Here," groaned his chief, "three hundred days, -Abounding in lascivious ways. -Pack up, and say 'good-bye' my man." -Thus spoke the Prussian Knight, Van Bran. - - -The ladies, as you may suppose, -Were _navrées, marrieés_, quite upset. -They had to let them go because -Such was the formal bargain. Yet -They used all arts against all rules, -As Dido did. The gentlemen, -Much like Aenæas, looked like fools, -And acting now as he did then, -First sighed, then blustered, lastly went: -Such is the heroic temperament. - - -They went to see the Pope at Rome, -To beg his Holiness's pardon: -And though the Suisse said "Not at home", -They caught him reading in the garden: -Down furiously the book he slammed, -And bellowed "You may both be damned." - - -In this some hold the Pope was wrong, -And went by much beyond his brief: -But that's no matter to my song, -Nor can it give us great relief -That Lettenhove speaks of a stick -Which played the old Tannhäuser trick, -Bourgeoning into buds of pity, -After our friends had left the city. -The Pope, he adds, was quite upset, -And owned he'd spoken out of pet, -Was strangely troubled for their fate, -Sent absolution--all too late: -For which, he thinks, the Pope must go -To join his victims down below. -You may conceive the lamentation -Of our poor knight on this occasion. -He was, like others of his nation, -A damned good fellow--only flabby-- -Who, on the slightest provocation, -Would fight or weep. A speech so shabby -As this, he took to heart, because -His sense of sin increased his fears; -So, on the Milvian Bridge it was -His squire found him, bathed in tears, -And gathered it was his intent -To jump from off that monument. - - -And here our Pons was at his best; -He turned the scene from tears to laughter, -Said "Cheer-i-o" and all the rest -The case demanded: "Since hereafter -Our lot is bound to be unpleasant," -Said he "let's think about the present; -And, since the Pope declares us sinful, -By God, old bean, let's have a skinfull. -Seeing Old Nick is whom we're meant for -We'll wait at least until we're sent for; -I see no sort of use in hurry -Or going half-way to meet worry. -Since when we're dead we'll roast for lust -Let's put off dying till we must; -And since to roast foredoomed I am, -Why liefer for a sheep than lamb; -Before we reach the Christian hell, -There is another--you know well." -The knight deplored this shallow mood, -But let Pons lead him where he would. - - -"And they are gone: aye, ages long ago," -(That is from Keats),--gone without absolution, -Or penitence; nor have we means to know -If they regret their hasty resolution. -Only La Sale, the encomiast of marriage, -(And author of a book still more surprising[6]) -In 1420 coming in his carriage, -Or on his mule, here archaeologizing -In Umbria, heard this curious story: -And thinking that there might be more he, -As I have said, stopped at the tavern, -And even climbed up to the cavern, -Whereon, confirming what he'd heard, -He puzzled out this awful word-- -I give it as the author gave it-- -"Her Hans Wanbranbourg (_sic_) _intravit_": -I give it just as it was writ -HER HANS WANBRANBOURG -INTRAVIT. - - -Years later, Monsieur Gaston Paris, -That learned Frenchman, came this way. -It poured with rain. He could not tarry. -He gave the cave a single day. -He noticed that the mouth was blocked -And asked the peasants 'why', who, shocked, -Informed him how on summer nights -The Sybil and her horrid sprites -Came out and danced their hellish jigs, -And crushed the corn and scared the pigs. -On which unamiable narration -The _savant_ made this observation-- -That they were very simple fools -To put their trust in masons' tools, -Seeing that fiends, our souls' ill-wishers, -Slip slyly through the smallest fissures. -And, in effect, for all their skill, -The peasants owned, _they dance there still._ - - -O Hans Van Branbourg, I applaud -You first, remembering you're a lord; -And next the not-to-be-forgot, -Your squire and my compatriot, -Him, Pons. For since we're far from sure -If Heaven will prove a sinecure, -And seeing that it's quite uncertain -What fate awaits beyond the curtain; -Seeing you wanton down the years, -While we are in the vale of tears, -And even thus the odds are even -On waking up in Hell or Heaven, -While many hold the odds not small -Against our waking up at all; -I can't but think that you were wise -To choose the Sibyl's paradise: -I say it with a heavy heart, -I think you chose the better part. - - -For in man's dire perplexity, -The old and best philosophy -Holds that a woodcock in the shop is -Well worth a couple in the coppice, -And tons of may-be bliss don't measure -One ounce of certain, solid pleasure. -Whence, once in Anchiale's city -Aristobulus found this witty -Inscription cut with wise intent, -Upon an ancient monument, -ΕΣΘΙΕ ΠΙΝΕ ΠΑΙΖΕ, thus, -By good king Sardanapalus, -"Eat, drink, and--well, the rest's not worth a cuss." - - -And so, my friends, though your adventure -May get from others only censure, -Though curates and idealists -May call you 'rank materialists', -And pompous atheistic prigs, -'Blind-worms' and 'Hedonistic pigs'; -Though other men, and wise ones too, -May hold that there is more to do -Than laugh and let the world go by -Saying "To-morrow we shall die"; -Yet in a matter so obscure -Wise men may differ to be sure. -Myself, I never thought it clever -To fuss about the "grand forever", -And cultivate a soul with care for -That vast but vague hereafter; wherefore -In my opinion, you did well -To live for love, though love is hell. - - - - -[Illustration 03] - - - - -[Footnote 1: In my opinion it is time -To legalise the cockney rhyme.] - -[Footnote 2: Not 'facete'? No, because in modern times -We're prouder of our Latin than our rhymes.] - -[Footnote 3: Perhaps I ought to add a line -To say the verse is Sybilline; -It is portentously ill writ; -Scholars must make the best of it.] - -[Footnote 4: Both Sale and Andrea Baberino say -"_Le coeur ne saurait les imaginer_".] - -[Footnote 5: Sale says they "_à la manière -De couleuvres et de serpents_" were.] - -[Footnote 6: From this strange book well named '_La Salade_' - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's The Legend of Monte della Sibilla, by Clive Bell - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LEGEND OF MONTE DELLA SIBILLA *** - -***** This file should be named 61120-0.txt or 61120-0.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/6/1/1/2/61120/ - -Produced by Laura Natal Rodrigues at Free Literature (Images -generously made available by Hathi Trust.) - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law 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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