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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/7154-h.zip b/7154-h.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..14a37b6 --- /dev/null +++ b/7154-h.zip diff --git a/7154-h/7154-h.htm b/7154-h/7154-h.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bde11f4 --- /dev/null +++ b/7154-h/7154-h.htm @@ -0,0 +1,1337 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER, By Mark Twain, Part 1.</title> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> + +<style type="text/css"> + <!-- + body {background:#faebd7; margin:10%; text-align:justify} + P { text-indent: 1em; + margin-top: .75em; + margin-bottom: .75em; } + H1,H2,H3,H4,H5,H6 { text-align: center; } + HR { width: 33%; text-align: center; } + blockquote {font-size: 97% } + .figleft {float: left;} + .figright {float: right;} + .toc { margin-left: 15%; margin-bottom: 0em;} + CENTER { padding: 10px;} + // --> +</style> + +</head> +<body> + +<h2>THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER, Part 1.</h2> +<pre> + +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Prince and The Pauper, Part 1. +by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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: The Prince and The Pauper, Part 1. + +Author: Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) + +Release Date: July 3, 2004 [EBook #7154] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER, PART 1. *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + +</pre> + + + + + + +<br> +<hr> +<br><br><br><br><br><br> + + + +<center> +<h1>THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER</h1> +<br><br> +<h2>by Mark Twain +<br><br><br><br>Part One +</h2> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="bookcover.jpg (148K)" src="images/bookcover.jpg" height="1018" width="948"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="frontispiece1.jpg (135K)" src="images/frontispiece1.jpg" height="1067" width="745"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="frontispiece2.jpg (123K)" src="images/frontispiece2.jpg" height="939" width="747"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="titlepage.jpg (62K)" src="images/titlepage.jpg" height="1083" width="815"> +</center> +<br><br> + +<a name="greatseal"></a><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="greatseal.jpg (68K)" src="images/greatseal.jpg" height="438" width="711"> +<br>The Great Seal +</center> +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="dedication.jpg (21K)" src="images/dedication.jpg" height="420" width="663"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="inscription.jpg (16K)" src="images/inscription.jpg" height="219" width="601"> +</center> + + +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br> +<blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote> +<b> +I will set down a tale as it was told to me by one who had it of his +father, which latter had it of HIS father, this last having in like +manner had it of HIS father—and so on, back and still back, three +hundred years and more, the fathers transmitting it to the sons and so +preserving it. It may be history, it may be only a legend, a tradition. +It may have happened, it may not have happened: but it COULD have +happened. It may be that the wise and the learned believed it in the old +days; it may be that only the unlearned and the simple loved it and +credited it.</b> +</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote> + +<br><br><br><br> + + + + +<h2> +CONTENTS</h2> + +<center> +<table summary=""> +<tr><td> + + + +I. </td><td><a href="#c1">The birth of the Prince and the Pauper.</a><br></td></tr><tr><td> +II. </td><td><a href="#c2">Tom's early life.</a><br></td></tr><tr><td> +III. </td><td><a href="#c3">Tom's meeting with the Prince.</a><br></td></tr><tr><td> +IV. </td><td><a href="#c4">The Prince's troubles begin.</a><br></td></tr> + + + + +</table> +</center> + + + + + +<br><br><br><br> + +<h2>ILLUSTRATIONS</h2> +<center> +<table summary=""> +<tr><td> + +<a href="#greatseal">THE GREAT SEAL (frontispiece)</a><br><br> +<a href="#01-021">THE BIRTH OF THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER</a><br><br> +<a href="#01-023">"SPLENDID PAGEANTS AND GREAT BONFIRES"</a><br><br> +<a href="#02-025">TOM'S EARLY LIFE </a><br><br> +<a href="#02-028">OFFAL COURT</a><br><br> +<a href="#02-029">"WITH ANY MISERABLE CRUST"</a><br><br> +<a href="#02-030">"HE OFTEN READ THE PRIEST'S BOOKS"</a><br><br> +<a href="#02-031">"SAW POOR ANNE ASKEW BURNED"</a><br><br> +<a href="#02-032">"BROUGHT THEIR PERPLEXITIES TO TOM"</a><br><br> +<a href="#02-033">"LONGING FOR THE PORK-PIES" </a><br><br> +<a href="#03-035">TOM'S MEETING WITH THE PRINCE</a><br><br> +<a href="#03-037">"AT TEMPLE BAR"</a><br><br> +<a href="#03-039">"LET HIM IN"</a><br><br> +<a href="#03-041">"HOW OLD BE THESE</a><br><br> +<a href="#03-043">"DOFF THY RAGS, AND DON THESE SPLENDORS" </a><br><br> +<a href="#03-046">"I SALUTE YOUR GRACIOUS HIGHNESS!"</a><br><br> +<a href="#04-047">THE PRINCE'S TROUBLES BEGIN</a><br><br> +<a href="#04-050">"SET UPON BY DOGS"</a><br><br> +<a href="#04-052">"A DRUNKEN RUFFIAN COLLARED HIM"</a><br><br> + +</td></tr> +</table> +</center> + + + + + + +<br><br><br><br> +<br><br> +<a name="c1"></a> +<a name="01-021"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="01-021.jpg (73K)" src="images/01-021.jpg" height="546" width="720"> +</center> +<br><br> +<a name="01-023"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="01-023.jpg (147K)" src="images/01-023.jpg" height="923" width="752"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Chapter I. The birth of the Prince and the Pauper.</p> + +<p>In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second +quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the +name of Canty, who did not want him. On the same day another English +child was born to a rich family of the name of Tudor, who did want him. +All England wanted him too. England had so longed for him, and hoped for +him, and prayed God for him, that, now that he was really come, the +people went nearly mad for joy. Mere acquaintances hugged and kissed +each other and cried. Everybody took a holiday, and high and low, rich +and poor, feasted and danced and sang, and got very mellow; and they kept +this up for days and nights together. By day, London was a sight to see, +with gay banners waving from every balcony and housetop, and splendid +pageants marching along. By night, it was again a sight to see, with its +great bonfires at every corner, and its troops of revellers making merry +around them. There was no talk in all England but of the new baby, +Edward Tudor, Prince of Wales, who lay lapped in silks and satins, +unconscious of all this fuss, and not knowing that great lords and ladies +were tending him and watching over him—and not caring, either. But +there was no talk about the other baby, Tom Canty, lapped in his poor +rags, except among the family of paupers whom he had just come to trouble +with his presence.</p> + + + +<br><br><br><br> +<br><br> +<a name="c2"></a> +<a name="02-025"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="02-025.jpg (57K)" src="images/02-025.jpg" height="449" width="709"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + + +<p>Chapter II. Tom's early life.</p> + +<p>Let us skip a number of years.</p> + +<p>London was fifteen hundred years old, and was a great town—for that day. +It had a hundred thousand inhabitants—some think double as many. The +streets were very narrow, and crooked, and dirty, especially in the part +where Tom Canty lived, which was not far from London Bridge. The houses +were of wood, with the second story projecting over the first, and the +third sticking its elbows out beyond the second. The higher the houses +grew, the broader they grew. They were skeletons of strong criss-cross +beams, with solid material between, coated with plaster. The beams were +painted red or blue or black, according to the owner's taste, and this +gave the houses a very picturesque look. The windows were small, glazed +with little diamond-shaped panes, and they opened outward, on hinges, +like doors.</p> + +<p>The house which Tom's father lived in was up a foul little pocket called +Offal Court, out of Pudding Lane. It was small, decayed, and rickety, +but it was packed full of wretchedly poor families. Canty's tribe +occupied a room on the third floor. The mother and father had a sort of +bedstead in the corner; but Tom, his grandmother, and his two sisters, +Bet and Nan, were not restricted—they had all the floor to themselves, +and might sleep where they chose. There were the remains of a blanket or +two, and some bundles of ancient and dirty straw, but these could not +rightly be called beds, for they were not organised; they were kicked +into a general pile, mornings, and selections made from the mass at +night, for service.</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="02-028"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="02-028.jpg (94K)" src="images/02-028.jpg" height="855" width="443"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Bet and Nan were fifteen years old—twins. They were good-hearted girls, +unclean, clothed in rags, and profoundly ignorant. Their mother was like +them. But the father and the grandmother were a couple of fiends. They +got drunk whenever they could; then they fought each other or anybody +else who came in the way; they cursed and swore always, drunk or sober; +John Canty was a thief, and his mother a beggar. They made beggars of +the children, but failed to make thieves of them. Among, but not of, the +dreadful rabble that inhabited the house, was a good old priest whom the +King had turned out of house and home with a pension of a few farthings, +and he used to get the children aside and teach them right ways secretly. +Father Andrew also taught Tom a little Latin, and how to read and write; +and would have done the same with the girls, but they were afraid of the +jeers of their friends, who could not have endured such a queer +accomplishment in them.</p> + +<p>All Offal Court was just such another hive as Canty's house. Drunkenness, +riot and brawling were the order, there, every night and nearly all night +long. Broken heads were as common as hunger in that place. Yet little +Tom was not unhappy. He had a hard time of it, but did not know it. It +was the sort of time that all the Offal Court boys had, therefore he +supposed it was the correct and comfortable thing. When he came home +empty-handed at night, he knew his father would curse him and thrash him +first, and that when he was done the awful grandmother would do it all +over again and improve on it; and that away in the night his starving +mother would slip to him stealthily with any miserable scrap or crust she +had been able to save for him by going hungry herself, notwithstanding +she was often caught in that sort of treason and soundly beaten for it by +her husband.</p> + + +<br><br> +<a name="02-029"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="02-029.jpg (55K)" src="images/02-029.jpg" height="358" width="472"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>No, Tom's life went along well enough, especially in summer. He only +begged just enough to save himself, for the laws against mendicancy were +stringent, and the penalties heavy; so he put in a good deal of his time +listening to good Father Andrew's charming old tales and legends about +giants and fairies, dwarfs and genii, and enchanted castles, and gorgeous +kings and princes. His head grew to be full of these wonderful things, +and many a night as he lay in the dark on his scant and offensive straw, +tired, hungry, and smarting from a thrashing, he unleashed his +imagination and soon forgot his aches and pains in delicious picturings +to himself of the charmed life of a petted prince in a regal palace. One +desire came in time to haunt him day and night: it was to see a real +prince, with his own eyes. He spoke of it once to some of his Offal +Court comrades; but they jeered him and scoffed him so unmercifully that +he was glad to keep his dream to himself after that.</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="02-030"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="02-030.jpg (80K)" src="images/02-030.jpg" height="702" width="443"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>He often read the priest's old books and got him to explain and enlarge +upon them. His dreamings and readings worked certain changes in him, by- +and-by. His dream-people were so fine that he grew to lament his shabby +clothing and his dirt, and to wish to be clean and better clad. He went +on playing in the mud just the same, and enjoying it, too; but, instead +of splashing around in the Thames solely for the fun of it, he began to +find an added value in it because of the washings and cleansings it +afforded.</p> + +<p>Tom could always find something going on around the Maypole in Cheapside, +and at the fairs; and now and then he and the rest of London had a chance +to see a military parade when some famous unfortunate was carried +prisoner to the Tower, by land or boat. One summer's day he saw poor Anne +Askew and three men burned at the stake in Smithfield, and heard an ex- +Bishop preach a sermon to them which did not interest him. Yes, Tom's +life was varied and pleasant enough, on the whole.</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="02-031"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="02-031.jpg (171K)" src="images/02-031.jpg" height="1019" width="748"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>By-and-by Tom's reading and dreaming about princely life wrought such a +strong effect upon him that he began to ACT the prince, unconsciously. +His speech and manners became curiously ceremonious and courtly, to the +vast admiration and amusement of his intimates. But Tom's influence +among these young people began to grow now, day by day; and in time he +came to be looked up to, by them, with a sort of wondering awe, as a +superior being. He seemed to know so much! and he could do and say such +marvellous things! and withal, he was so deep and wise! Tom's remarks, +and Tom's performances, were reported by the boys to their elders; and +these, also, presently began to discuss Tom Canty, and to regard him as a +most gifted and extraordinary creature. Full-grown people brought their +perplexities to Tom for solution, and were often astonished at the wit +and wisdom of his decisions. In fact he was become a hero to all who +knew him except his own family—these, only, saw nothing in him.</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="02-032"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="02-032.jpg (47K)" src="images/02-032.jpg" height="470" width="343"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Privately, after a while, Tom organised a royal court! He was the +prince; his special comrades were guards, chamberlains, equerries, lords +and ladies in waiting, and the royal family. Daily the mock prince was +received with elaborate ceremonials borrowed by Tom from his romantic +readings; daily the great affairs of the mimic kingdom were discussed in +the royal council, and daily his mimic highness issued decrees to his +imaginary armies, navies, and viceroyalties.</p> + +<p>After which, he would go forth in his rags and beg a few farthings, eat +his poor crust, take his customary cuffs and abuse, and then stretch +himself upon his handful of foul straw, and resume his empty grandeurs in +his dreams.</p> + +<p>And still his desire to look just once upon a real prince, in the flesh, +grew upon him, day by day, and week by week, until at last it absorbed +all other desires, and became the one passion of his life.</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="02-033"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="02-033.jpg (41K)" src="images/02-033.jpg" height="490" width="258"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>One January day, on his usual begging tour, he tramped despondently up +and down the region round about Mincing Lane and Little East Cheap, hour +after hour, bare-footed and cold, looking in at cook-shop windows and +longing for the dreadful pork-pies and other deadly inventions displayed +there—for to him these were dainties fit for the angels; that is, +judging by the smell, they were—for it had never been his good luck to +own and eat one. There was a cold drizzle of rain; the atmosphere was +murky; it was a melancholy day. At night Tom reached home so wet and +tired and hungry that it was not possible for his father and grandmother +to observe his forlorn condition and not be moved—after their fashion; +wherefore they gave him a brisk cuffing at once and sent him to bed. For +a long time his pain and hunger, and the swearing and fighting going on +in the building, kept him awake; but at last his thoughts drifted away to +far, romantic lands, and he fell asleep in the company of jewelled and +gilded princelings who live in vast palaces, and had servants salaaming +before them or flying to execute their orders. And then, as usual, he +dreamed that HE was a princeling himself.</p> + +<p>All night long the glories of his royal estate shone upon him; he moved +among great lords and ladies, in a blaze of light, breathing perfumes, +drinking in delicious music, and answering the reverent obeisances of the +glittering throng as it parted to make way for him, with here a smile, +and there a nod of his princely head.</p> + +<p>And when he awoke in the morning and looked upon the wretchedness about +him, his dream had had its usual effect—it had intensified the +sordidness of his surroundings a thousandfold. Then came bitterness, and +heart-break, and tears.</p> + + +<br><br><hr><br> +<br><br> +<a name="c3"></a> +<a name="03-035"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="03-035.jpg (77K)" src="images/03-035.jpg" height="557" width="710"> +</center> +<br><br> +<a name="03-037"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="03-037.jpg (143K)" src="images/03-037.jpg" height="856" width="769"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<p>Chapter III. Tom's meeting with the Prince.</p> + +<p>Tom got up hungry, and sauntered hungry away, but with his thoughts busy +with the shadowy splendours of his night's dreams. He wandered here and +there in the city, hardly noticing where he was going, or what was +happening around him. People jostled him, and some gave him rough +speech; but it was all lost on the musing boy. By-and-by he found +himself at Temple Bar, the farthest from home he had ever travelled in +that direction. He stopped and considered a moment, then fell into his +imaginings again, and passed on outside the walls of London. The Strand +had ceased to be a country-road then, and regarded itself as a street, +but by a strained construction; for, though there was a tolerably compact +row of houses on one side of it, there were only some scattered great +buildings on the other, these being palaces of rich nobles, with ample +and beautiful grounds stretching to the river—grounds that are now +closely packed with grim acres of brick and stone.</p> + +<p>Tom discovered Charing Village presently, and rested himself at the +beautiful cross built there by a bereaved king of earlier days; then +idled down a quiet, lovely road, past the great cardinal's stately +palace, toward a far more mighty and majestic palace beyond—Westminster. +Tom stared in glad wonder at the vast pile of masonry, the wide-spreading +wings, the frowning bastions and turrets, the huge stone gateway, with +its gilded bars and its magnificent array of colossal granite lions, and +other the signs and symbols of English royalty. Was the desire of his +soul to be satisfied at last? Here, indeed, was a king's palace. Might +he not hope to see a prince now—a prince of flesh and blood, if Heaven +were willing?</p> + +<p>At each side of the gilded gate stood a living statue—that is to say, an +erect and stately and motionless man-at-arms, clad from head to heel in +shining steel armour. At a respectful distance were many country folk, +and people from the city, waiting for any chance glimpse of royalty that +might offer. Splendid carriages, with splendid people in them and +splendid servants outside, were arriving and departing by several other +noble gateways that pierced the royal enclosure.</p> + +<p>Poor little Tom, in his rags, approached, and was moving slowly and +timidly past the sentinels, with a beating heart and a rising hope, when +all at once he caught sight through the golden bars of a spectacle that +almost made him shout for joy. Within was a comely boy, tanned and brown +with sturdy outdoor sports and exercises, whose clothing was all of +lovely silks and satins, shining with jewels; at his hip a little +jewelled sword and dagger; dainty buskins on his feet, with red heels; +and on his head a jaunty crimson cap, with drooping plumes fastened with +a great sparkling gem. Several gorgeous gentlemen stood near—his +servants, without a doubt. Oh! he was a prince—a prince, a living +prince, a real prince—without the shadow of a question; and the prayer +of the pauper-boy's heart was answered at last.</p> + +<p>Tom's breath came quick and short with excitement, and his eyes grew big +with wonder and delight. Everything gave way in his mind instantly to +one desire: that was to get close to the prince, and have a good, +devouring look at him. Before he knew what he was about, he had his face +against the gate-bars. The next instant one of the soldiers snatched him +rudely away, and sent him spinning among the gaping crowd of country +gawks and London idlers. The soldier said,—</p> + +<p>"Mind thy manners, thou young beggar!"</p> + +<p>The crowd jeered and laughed; but the young prince sprang to the gate +with his face flushed, and his eyes flashing with indignation, and cried +out,—</p> + +<p>"How dar'st thou use a poor lad like that? How dar'st thou use the King +my father's meanest subject so? Open the gates, and let him in!"</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="03-039"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="03-039.jpg (171K)" src="images/03-039.jpg" height="1055" width="741"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>You should have seen that fickle crowd snatch off their hats then. You +should have heard them cheer, and shout, "Long live the Prince of Wales!"</p> + +<p>The soldiers presented arms with their halberds, opened the gates, and +presented again as the little Prince of Poverty passed in, in his +fluttering rags, to join hands with the Prince of Limitless Plenty.</p> + +<p>Edward Tudor said—</p> + +<p>"Thou lookest tired and hungry: thou'st been treated ill. Come with +me."</p> + +<p>Half a dozen attendants sprang forward to—I don't know what; interfere, +no doubt. But they were waved aside with a right royal gesture, and they +stopped stock still where they were, like so many statues. Edward took +Tom to a rich apartment in the palace, which he called his cabinet. By +his command a repast was brought such as Tom had never encountered before +except in books. The prince, with princely delicacy and breeding, sent +away the servants, so that his humble guest might not be embarrassed by +their critical presence; then he sat near by, and asked questions while +Tom ate.</p> + +<p>"What is thy name, lad?"</p> + +<p>"Tom Canty, an' it please thee, sir."</p> + +<p>"'Tis an odd one. Where dost live?"</p> + +<p>"In the city, please thee, sir. Offal Court, out of Pudding Lane."</p> + +<p>"Offal Court! Truly 'tis another odd one. Hast parents?"</p> + +<p>"Parents have I, sir, and a grand-dam likewise that is but indifferently +precious to me, God forgive me if it be offence to say it—also twin +sisters, Nan and Bet."</p> + +<p>"Then is thy grand-dam not over kind to thee, I take it?"</p> + +<p>"Neither to any other is she, so please your worship. She hath a wicked +heart, and worketh evil all her days."</p> + +<p>"Doth she mistreat thee?"</p> + +<p>"There be times that she stayeth her hand, being asleep or overcome with +drink; but when she hath her judgment clear again, she maketh it up to me +with goodly beatings."</p> + +<p>A fierce look came into the little prince's eyes, and he cried out—</p> + +<p>"What! Beatings?"</p> + +<p>"Oh, indeed, yes, please you, sir."</p> + +<p>"BEATINGS!—and thou so frail and little. Hark ye: before the night +come, she shall hie her to the Tower. The King my father"—</p> + +<p>"In sooth, you forget, sir, her low degree. The Tower is for the great +alone."</p> + +<p>"True, indeed. I had not thought of that. I will consider of her +punishment. Is thy father kind to thee?"</p> + +<p>"Not more than Gammer Canty, sir."</p> + +<p>"Fathers be alike, mayhap. Mine hath not a doll's temper. He smiteth +with a heavy hand, yet spareth me: he spareth me not always with his +tongue, though, sooth to say. How doth thy mother use thee?"</p> + +<p>"She is good, sir, and giveth me neither sorrow nor pain of any sort. +And Nan and Bet are like to her in this."</p> + +<p>"How old be these?"</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="03-041"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="03-041.jpg (85K)" src="images/03-041.jpg" height="410" width="728"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>"Fifteen, an' it please you, sir."</p> + +<p>"The Lady Elizabeth, my sister, is fourteen, and the Lady Jane Grey, my +cousin, is of mine own age, and comely and gracious withal; but my sister +the Lady Mary, with her gloomy mien and—Look you: do thy sisters forbid +their servants to smile, lest the sin destroy their souls?"</p> + +<p>"They? Oh, dost think, sir, that THEY have servants?"</p> + +<p>The little prince contemplated the little pauper gravely a moment, then +said—</p> + +<p>"And prithee, why not? Who helpeth them undress at night? Who attireth +them when they rise?"</p> + +<p>"None, sir. Would'st have them take off their garment, and sleep +without—like the beasts?"</p> + +<p>"Their garment! Have they but one?"</p> + +<p>"Ah, good your worship, what would they do with more? Truly they have +not two bodies each."</p> + +<p>"It is a quaint and marvellous thought! Thy pardon, I had not meant to +laugh. But thy good Nan and thy Bet shall have raiment and lackeys enow, +and that soon, too: my cofferer shall look to it. No, thank me not; +'tis nothing. Thou speakest well; thou hast an easy grace in it. Art +learned?"</p> + +<p>"I know not if I am or not, sir. The good priest that is called Father +Andrew taught me, of his kindness, from his books."</p> + +<p>"Know'st thou the Latin?"</p> + +<p>"But scantly, sir, I doubt."</p> + +<p>"Learn it, lad: 'tis hard only at first. The Greek is harder; but +neither these nor any tongues else, I think, are hard to the Lady +Elizabeth and my cousin. Thou should'st hear those damsels at it! But +tell me of thy Offal Court. Hast thou a pleasant life there?"</p> + +<p>"In truth, yes, so please you, sir, save when one is hungry. There be +Punch-and-Judy shows, and monkeys—oh such antic creatures! and so +bravely dressed!—and there be plays wherein they that play do shout and +fight till all are slain, and 'tis so fine to see, and costeth but a +farthing—albeit 'tis main hard to get the farthing, please your +worship."</p> + +<p>"Tell me more."</p> + +<p>"We lads of Offal Court do strive against each other with the cudgel, +like to the fashion of the 'prentices, sometimes."</p> + +<p>The prince's eyes flashed. Said he—</p> + +<p>"Marry, that would not I mislike. Tell me more."</p> + +<p>"We strive in races, sir, to see who of us shall be fleetest."</p> + +<p>"That would I like also. Speak on."</p> + +<p>"In summer, sir, we wade and swim in the canals and in the river, and +each doth duck his neighbour, and splatter him with water, and dive and +shout and tumble and—"</p> + +<p>"'Twould be worth my father's kingdom but to enjoy it once! Prithee go +on."</p> + +<p>"We dance and sing about the Maypole in Cheapside; we play in the sand, +each covering his neighbour up; and times we make mud pastry—oh the +lovely mud, it hath not its like for delightfulness in all the world!—we +do fairly wallow in the mud, sir, saving your worship's presence."</p> + +<p>"Oh, prithee, say no more, 'tis glorious! If that I could but clothe me +in raiment like to thine, and strip my feet, and revel in the mud once, +just once, with none to rebuke me or forbid, meseemeth I could forego the +crown!"</p> + +<p>"And if that I could clothe me once, sweet sir, as thou art clad—just +once—"</p> + +<p>"Oho, would'st like it? Then so shall it be. Doff thy rags, and don +these splendours, lad! It is a brief happiness, but will be not less +keen for that. We will have it while we may, and change again before any +come to molest."</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="03-043"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="03-043.jpg (201K)" src="images/03-043.jpg" height="1029" width="766"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>A few minutes later the little Prince of Wales was garlanded with Tom's +fluttering odds and ends, and the little Prince of Pauperdom was tricked +out in the gaudy plumage of royalty. The two went and stood side by side +before a great mirror, and lo, a miracle: there did not seem to have been +any change made! They stared at each other, then at the glass, then at +each other again. At last the puzzled princeling said—</p> + +<p>"What dost thou make of this?"</p> + +<p>"Ah, good your worship, require me not to answer. It is not meet that +one of my degree should utter the thing."</p> + +<p>"Then will _I_ utter it. Thou hast the same hair, the same eyes, the +same voice and manner, the same form and stature, the same face and +countenance that I bear. Fared we forth naked, there is none could say +which was you, and which the Prince of Wales. And, now that I am clothed +as thou wert clothed, it seemeth I should be able the more nearly to feel +as thou didst when the brute soldier—Hark ye, is not this a bruise upon +your hand?"</p> + +<p>"Yes; but it is a slight thing, and your worship knoweth that the poor +man-at-arms—"</p> + +<p>"Peace! It was a shameful thing and a cruel!" cried the little prince, +stamping his bare foot. "If the King—Stir not a step till I come again! +It is a command!"</p> + +<p>In a moment he had snatched up and put away an article of national +importance that lay upon a table, and was out at the door and flying +through the palace grounds in his bannered rags, with a hot face and +glowing eyes. As soon as he reached the great gate, he seized the bars, +and tried to shake them, shouting—</p> + +<p>"Open! Unbar the gates!"</p> + +<p>The soldier that had maltreated Tom obeyed promptly; and as the prince +burst through the portal, half-smothered with royal wrath, the soldier +fetched him a sounding box on the ear that sent him whirling to the +roadway, and said—</p> + +<p>"Take that, thou beggar's spawn, for what thou got'st me from his +Highness!"</p> + +<p>The crowd roared with laughter. The prince picked himself out of the +mud, and made fiercely at the sentry, shouting—</p> + +<p>"I am the Prince of Wales, my person is sacred; and thou shalt hang for +laying thy hand upon me!"</p> + +<p>The soldier brought his halberd to a present-arms and said mockingly—</p> + +<p>"I salute your gracious Highness." Then angrily—"Be off, thou crazy +rubbish!"</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="03-046"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="03-046.jpg (154K)" src="images/03-046.jpg" height="999" width="737"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Here the jeering crowd closed round the poor little prince, and hustled +him far down the road, hooting him, and shouting—</p> + +<p>"Way for his Royal Highness! Way for the Prince of Wales!"</p> + + + +<br><br><hr><br> +<br><br> +<a name="c4"></a> +<a name="04-047"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="04-047.jpg (47K)" src="images/04-047.jpg" height="462" width="702"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<p>Chapter IV. The Prince's troubles begin.</p> + +<p>After hours of persistent pursuit and persecution, the little prince was +at last deserted by the rabble and left to himself. As long as he had +been able to rage against the mob, and threaten it royally, and royally +utter commands that were good stuff to laugh at, he was very +entertaining; but when weariness finally forced him to be silent, he was +no longer of use to his tormentors, and they sought amusement elsewhere. +He looked about him, now, but could not recognise the locality. He was +within the city of London—that was all he knew. He moved on, aimlessly, +and in a little while the houses thinned, and the passers-by were +infrequent. He bathed his bleeding feet in the brook which flowed then +where Farringdon Street now is; rested a few moments, then passed on, and +presently came upon a great space with only a few scattered houses in it, +and a prodigious church. He recognised this church. Scaffoldings were +about, everywhere, and swarms of workmen; for it was undergoing elaborate +repairs. The prince took heart at once—he felt that his troubles were +at an end, now. He said to himself, "It is the ancient Grey Friars' +Church, which the king my father hath taken from the monks and given for +a home for ever for poor and forsaken children, and new-named it Christ's +Church. Right gladly will they serve the son of him who hath done so +generously by them—and the more that that son is himself as poor and as +forlorn as any that be sheltered here this day, or ever shall be."</p> + +<p>He was soon in the midst of a crowd of boys who were running, jumping, +playing at ball and leap-frog, and otherwise disporting themselves, and +right noisily, too. They were all dressed alike, and in the fashion +which in that day prevailed among serving-men and 'prentices{1}—that is +to say, each had on the crown of his head a flat black cap about the size +of a saucer, which was not useful as a covering, it being of such scanty +dimensions, neither was it ornamental; from beneath it the hair fell, +unparted, to the middle of the forehead, and was cropped straight around; +a clerical band at the neck; a blue gown that fitted closely and hung as +low as the knees or lower; full sleeves; a broad red belt; bright yellow +stockings, gartered above the knees; low shoes with large metal buckles. +It was a sufficiently ugly costume.</p> + +<p>The boys stopped their play and flocked about the prince, who said with +native dignity—</p> + +<p>"Good lads, say to your master that Edward Prince of Wales desireth +speech with him."</p> + +<p>A great shout went up at this, and one rude fellow said—</p> + +<p>"Marry, art thou his grace's messenger, beggar?"</p> + +<p>The prince's face flushed with anger, and his ready hand flew to his hip, +but there was nothing there. There was a storm of laughter, and one boy +said—</p> + +<p>"Didst mark that? He fancied he had a sword—belike he is the prince +himself."</p> + +<p>This sally brought more laughter. Poor Edward drew himself up proudly +and said—</p> + +<p>"I am the prince; and it ill beseemeth you that feed upon the king my +father's bounty to use me so."</p> + +<p>This was vastly enjoyed, as the laughter testified. The youth who had +first spoken, shouted to his comrades—</p> + +<p>"Ho, swine, slaves, pensioners of his grace's princely father, where be +your manners? Down on your marrow bones, all of ye, and do reverence to +his kingly port and royal rags!"</p> + +<p>With boisterous mirth they dropped upon their knees in a body and did +mock homage to their prey. The prince spurned the nearest boy with his +foot, and said fiercely—</p> + +<p>"Take thou that, till the morrow come and I build thee a gibbet!"</p> + +<p>Ah, but this was not a joke—this was going beyond fun. The laughter +ceased on the instant, and fury took its place. A dozen shouted—</p> + +<p>"Hale him forth! To the horse-pond, to the horse-pond! Where be the +dogs? Ho, there, Lion! ho, Fangs!"</p> + +<p>Then followed such a thing as England had never seen before—the sacred +person of the heir to the throne rudely buffeted by plebeian hands, and +set upon and torn by dogs.</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="04-050"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="04-050.jpg (84K)" src="images/04-050.jpg" height="509" width="557"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>As night drew to a close that day, the prince found himself far down in +the close-built portion of the city. His body was bruised, his hands +were bleeding, and his rags were all besmirched with mud. He wandered on +and on, and grew more and more bewildered, and so tired and faint he +could hardly drag one foot after the other. He had ceased to ask +questions of anyone, since they brought him only insult instead of +information. He kept muttering to himself, "Offal Court—that is the +name; if I can but find it before my strength is wholly spent and I drop, +then am I saved—for his people will take me to the palace and prove that +I am none of theirs, but the true prince, and I shall have mine own +again." And now and then his mind reverted to his treatment by those +rude Christ's Hospital boys, and he said, "When I am king, they shall not +have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books; for a full +belly is little worth where the mind is starved, and the heart. I will +keep this diligently in my remembrance, that this day's lesson be not +lost upon me, and my people suffer thereby; for learning softeneth the +heart and breedeth gentleness and charity." {1}</p> + +<p>The lights began to twinkle, it came on to rain, the wind rose, and a raw +and gusty night set in. The houseless prince, the homeless heir to the +throne of England, still moved on, drifting deeper into the maze of +squalid alleys where the swarming hives of poverty and misery were massed +together.</p> + +<p>Suddenly a great drunken ruffian collared him and said—</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="04-052"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="04-052.jpg (80K)" src="images/04-052.jpg" height="578" width="417"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>"Out to this time of night again, and hast not brought a farthing home, I +warrant me! If it be so, an' I do not break all the bones in thy lean +body, then am I not John Canty, but some other."</p> + +<p>The prince twisted himself loose, unconsciously brushed his profaned +shoulder, and eagerly said—</p> + +<p>"Oh, art HIS father, truly? Sweet heaven grant it be so—then wilt thou +fetch him away and restore me!"</p> + +<p>"HIS father? I know not what thou mean'st; I but know I am THY father, +as thou shalt soon have cause to—"</p> + +<p>"Oh, jest not, palter not, delay not!—I am worn, I am wounded, I can +bear no more. Take me to the king my father, and he will make thee rich +beyond thy wildest dreams. Believe me, man, believe me!—I speak no lie, +but only the truth!—put forth thy hand and save me! I am indeed the +Prince of Wales!"</p> + +<p>The man stared down, stupefied, upon the lad, then shook his head and +muttered—</p> + +<p>"Gone stark mad as any Tom o' Bedlam!"—then collared him once more, and +said with a coarse laugh and an oath, "But mad or no mad, I and thy +Gammer Canty will soon find where the soft places in thy bones lie, or +I'm no true man!"</p> + +<p>With this he dragged the frantic and struggling prince away, and +disappeared up a front court followed by a delighted and noisy swarm of +human vermin.</p> + + + + +<br> +<br> + + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Prince and The Pauper, Part 1. +by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER, PART 1. *** + +***** This file should be named 7154-h.htm or 7154-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/7/1/5/7154/ + +Produced by David Widger + +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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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: The Prince and The Pauper, Part 1. + +Author: Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) + +Release Date: July 3, 2004 [EBook #7154] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER, PART 1. *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER + + by Mark Twain + + Part 1. + + + +Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester, to Lord Cromwell, on the birth of the +Prince of Wales (afterward Edward VI.). + +From the National Manuscripts preserved by the British Government. + +Ryght honorable, Salutem in Christo Jesu, and Syr here ys no lesse joynge +and rejossynge in thes partees for the byrth of our prynce, hoom we +hungurde for so longe, then ther was (I trow), inter vicinos att the +byrth of S. J. Baptyste, as thys berer, Master Erance, can telle you. +Gode gyffe us alle grace, to yelde dew thankes to our Lorde Gode, Gode of +Inglonde, for verely He hathe shoyd Hym selff Gode of Inglonde, or rather +an Inglyssh Gode, yf we consydyr and pondyr welle alle Hys procedynges +with us from tyme to tyme. He hath over cumme alle our yllnesse with Hys +excedynge goodnesse, so that we are now moor then compellyd to serve Hym, +seke Hys glory, promott Hys wurde, yf the Devylle of alle Devylles be +natt in us. We have now the stooppe of vayne trustes ande the stey of +vayne expectations; lett us alle pray for hys preservatione. Ande I for +my partt wylle wyssh that hys Grace allways have, and evyn now from the +begynynge, Governares, Instructores and offyceres of ryght jugmente, ne +optimum ingenium non optima educatione deprevetur. + +Butt whatt a grett fowlle am I! So, whatt devotione shoyth many tymys +butt lytelle dyscretione! Ande thus the Gode of Inglonde be ever with +you in alle your procedynges. + +The 19 of October. + +Youres, H. L. B. of Wurcestere, now att Hartlebury. + +Yf you wolde excytt thys berere to be moore hartye ayen the abuse of +ymagry or mor forwarde to promotte the veryte, ytt myght doo goode. Natt +that ytt came of me, butt of your selffe, etc. + +(Addressed) To the Ryght Honorable Loorde P. Sealle hys synguler gode +Lorde. + + + +To those good-mannered and agreeable children Susie and Clara Clemens +this book is affectionately inscribed by their father. + + + +I will set down a tale as it was told to me by one who had it of his +father, which latter had it of HIS father, this last having in like +manner had it of HIS father--and so on, back and still back, three +hundred years and more, the fathers transmitting it to the sons and so +preserving it. It may be history, it may be only a legend, a tradition. +It may have happened, it may not have happened: but it COULD have +happened. It may be that the wise and the learned believed it in the old +days; it may be that only the unlearned and the simple loved it and +credited it. + + + + +Contents. + +I. The birth of the Prince and the Pauper. +II. Tom's early life. +III. Tom's meeting with the Prince. +IV. The Prince's troubles begin. +V. Tom as a patrician. +VI. Tom receives instructions. +VII. Tom's first royal dinner. +VIII. The question of the Seal. +IX. The river pageant. +X. The Prince in the toils. +XI. At Guildhall. +XII. The Prince and his deliverer. +XIII. The disappearance of the Prince. +XIV. 'Le Roi est mort--vive le Roi.' +XV. Tom as King. +XVI. The state dinner. +XVII. Foo-foo the First. +XVIII. The Prince with the tramps. +XIX. The Prince with the peasants. +XX. The Prince and the hermit. +XXI. Hendon to the rescue. +XXII. A victim of treachery. +XXIII. The Prince a prisoner. +XXIV. The escape. +XXV. Hendon Hall. +XXVI. Disowned. +XXVII. In prison. +XXVIII. The sacrifice. +XXIX. To London. +XXX. Tom's progress. +XXXI. The Recognition procession. +XXXII. Coronation Day. +XXXIII. Edward as King. +Conclusion. Justice and Retribution. +Notes. + + + + 'The quality of mercy . . . is twice bless'd; + It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes; + 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes + The thron-ed monarch better than his crown'. + Merchant of Venice. + + + + +Chapter I. The birth of the Prince and the Pauper. + +In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second +quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the +name of Canty, who did not want him. On the same day another English +child was born to a rich family of the name of Tudor, who did want him. +All England wanted him too. England had so longed for him, and hoped for +him, and prayed God for him, that, now that he was really come, the +people went nearly mad for joy. Mere acquaintances hugged and kissed +each other and cried. Everybody took a holiday, and high and low, rich +and poor, feasted and danced and sang, and got very mellow; and they kept +this up for days and nights together. By day, London was a sight to see, +with gay banners waving from every balcony and housetop, and splendid +pageants marching along. By night, it was again a sight to see, with its +great bonfires at every corner, and its troops of revellers making merry +around them. There was no talk in all England but of the new baby, +Edward Tudor, Prince of Wales, who lay lapped in silks and satins, +unconscious of all this fuss, and not knowing that great lords and ladies +were tending him and watching over him--and not caring, either. But +there was no talk about the other baby, Tom Canty, lapped in his poor +rags, except among the family of paupers whom he had just come to trouble +with his presence. + + + +Chapter II. Tom's early life. + +Let us skip a number of years. + +London was fifteen hundred years old, and was a great town--for that day. +It had a hundred thousand inhabitants--some think double as many. The +streets were very narrow, and crooked, and dirty, especially in the part +where Tom Canty lived, which was not far from London Bridge. The houses +were of wood, with the second story projecting over the first, and the +third sticking its elbows out beyond the second. The higher the houses +grew, the broader they grew. They were skeletons of strong criss-cross +beams, with solid material between, coated with plaster. The beams were +painted red or blue or black, according to the owner's taste, and this +gave the houses a very picturesque look. The windows were small, glazed +with little diamond-shaped panes, and they opened outward, on hinges, +like doors. + +The house which Tom's father lived in was up a foul little pocket called +Offal Court, out of Pudding Lane. It was small, decayed, and rickety, +but it was packed full of wretchedly poor families. Canty's tribe +occupied a room on the third floor. The mother and father had a sort of +bedstead in the corner; but Tom, his grandmother, and his two sisters, +Bet and Nan, were not restricted--they had all the floor to themselves, +and might sleep where they chose. There were the remains of a blanket or +two, and some bundles of ancient and dirty straw, but these could not +rightly be called beds, for they were not organised; they were kicked +into a general pile, mornings, and selections made from the mass at +night, for service. + +Bet and Nan were fifteen years old--twins. They were good-hearted girls, +unclean, clothed in rags, and profoundly ignorant. Their mother was like +them. But the father and the grandmother were a couple of fiends. They +got drunk whenever they could; then they fought each other or anybody +else who came in the way; they cursed and swore always, drunk or sober; +John Canty was a thief, and his mother a beggar. They made beggars of +the children, but failed to make thieves of them. Among, but not of, the +dreadful rabble that inhabited the house, was a good old priest whom the +King had turned out of house and home with a pension of a few farthings, +and he used to get the children aside and teach them right ways secretly. +Father Andrew also taught Tom a little Latin, and how to read and write; +and would have done the same with the girls, but they were afraid of the +jeers of their friends, who could not have endured such a queer +accomplishment in them. + +All Offal Court was just such another hive as Canty's house. Drunkenness, +riot and brawling were the order, there, every night and nearly all night +long. Broken heads were as common as hunger in that place. Yet little +Tom was not unhappy. He had a hard time of it, but did not know it. It +was the sort of time that all the Offal Court boys had, therefore he +supposed it was the correct and comfortable thing. When he came home +empty-handed at night, he knew his father would curse him and thrash him +first, and that when he was done the awful grandmother would do it all +over again and improve on it; and that away in the night his starving +mother would slip to him stealthily with any miserable scrap or crust she +had been able to save for him by going hungry herself, notwithstanding +she was often caught in that sort of treason and soundly beaten for it by +her husband. + +No, Tom's life went along well enough, especially in summer. He only +begged just enough to save himself, for the laws against mendicancy were +stringent, and the penalties heavy; so he put in a good deal of his time +listening to good Father Andrew's charming old tales and legends about +giants and fairies, dwarfs and genii, and enchanted castles, and gorgeous +kings and princes. His head grew to be full of these wonderful things, +and many a night as he lay in the dark on his scant and offensive straw, +tired, hungry, and smarting from a thrashing, he unleashed his +imagination and soon forgot his aches and pains in delicious picturings +to himself of the charmed life of a petted prince in a regal palace. One +desire came in time to haunt him day and night: it was to see a real +prince, with his own eyes. He spoke of it once to some of his Offal +Court comrades; but they jeered him and scoffed him so unmercifully that +he was glad to keep his dream to himself after that. + +He often read the priest's old books and got him to explain and enlarge +upon them. His dreamings and readings worked certain changes in him, +by-and-by. His dream-people were so fine that he grew to lament his shabby +clothing and his dirt, and to wish to be clean and better clad. He went +on playing in the mud just the same, and enjoying it, too; but, instead +of splashing around in the Thames solely for the fun of it, he began to +find an added value in it because of the washings and cleansings it +afforded. + +Tom could always find something going on around the Maypole in Cheapside, +and at the fairs; and now and then he and the rest of London had a chance +to see a military parade when some famous unfortunate was carried +prisoner to the Tower, by land or boat. One summer's day he saw poor Anne +Askew and three men burned at the stake in Smithfield, and heard an +ex-Bishop preach a sermon to them which did not interest him. Yes, Tom's +life was varied and pleasant enough, on the whole. + +By-and-by Tom's reading and dreaming about princely life wrought such a +strong effect upon him that he began to ACT the prince, unconsciously. +His speech and manners became curiously ceremonious and courtly, to the +vast admiration and amusement of his intimates. But Tom's influence +among these young people began to grow now, day by day; and in time he +came to be looked up to, by them, with a sort of wondering awe, as a +superior being. He seemed to know so much! and he could do and say such +marvellous things! and withal, he was so deep and wise! Tom's remarks, +and Tom's performances, were reported by the boys to their elders; and +these, also, presently began to discuss Tom Canty, and to regard him as a +most gifted and extraordinary creature. Full-grown people brought their +perplexities to Tom for solution, and were often astonished at the wit +and wisdom of his decisions. In fact he was become a hero to all who +knew him except his own family--these, only, saw nothing in him. + +Privately, after a while, Tom organised a royal court! He was the +prince; his special comrades were guards, chamberlains, equerries, lords +and ladies in waiting, and the royal family. Daily the mock prince was +received with elaborate ceremonials borrowed by Tom from his romantic +readings; daily the great affairs of the mimic kingdom were discussed in +the royal council, and daily his mimic highness issued decrees to his +imaginary armies, navies, and viceroyalties. + +After which, he would go forth in his rags and beg a few farthings, eat +his poor crust, take his customary cuffs and abuse, and then stretch +himself upon his handful of foul straw, and resume his empty grandeurs in +his dreams. + +And still his desire to look just once upon a real prince, in the flesh, +grew upon him, day by day, and week by week, until at last it absorbed +all other desires, and became the one passion of his life. + +One January day, on his usual begging tour, he tramped despondently up +and down the region round about Mincing Lane and Little East Cheap, hour +after hour, bare-footed and cold, looking in at cook-shop windows and +longing for the dreadful pork-pies and other deadly inventions displayed +there--for to him these were dainties fit for the angels; that is, +judging by the smell, they were--for it had never been his good luck to +own and eat one. There was a cold drizzle of rain; the atmosphere was +murky; it was a melancholy day. At night Tom reached home so wet and +tired and hungry that it was not possible for his father and grandmother +to observe his forlorn condition and not be moved--after their fashion; +wherefore they gave him a brisk cuffing at once and sent him to bed. For +a long time his pain and hunger, and the swearing and fighting going on +in the building, kept him awake; but at last his thoughts drifted away to +far, romantic lands, and he fell asleep in the company of jewelled and +gilded princelings who live in vast palaces, and had servants salaaming +before them or flying to execute their orders. And then, as usual, he +dreamed that HE was a princeling himself. + +All night long the glories of his royal estate shone upon him; he moved +among great lords and ladies, in a blaze of light, breathing perfumes, +drinking in delicious music, and answering the reverent obeisances of the +glittering throng as it parted to make way for him, with here a smile, +and there a nod of his princely head. + +And when he awoke in the morning and looked upon the wretchedness about +him, his dream had had its usual effect--it had intensified the +sordidness of his surroundings a thousandfold. Then came bitterness, and +heart-break, and tears. + + + +Chapter III. Tom's meeting with the Prince. + +Tom got up hungry, and sauntered hungry away, but with his thoughts busy +with the shadowy splendours of his night's dreams. He wandered here and +there in the city, hardly noticing where he was going, or what was +happening around him. People jostled him, and some gave him rough +speech; but it was all lost on the musing boy. By-and-by he found +himself at Temple Bar, the farthest from home he had ever travelled in +that direction. He stopped and considered a moment, then fell into his +imaginings again, and passed on outside the walls of London. The Strand +had ceased to be a country-road then, and regarded itself as a street, +but by a strained construction; for, though there was a tolerably compact +row of houses on one side of it, there were only some scattered great +buildings on the other, these being palaces of rich nobles, with ample +and beautiful grounds stretching to the river--grounds that are now +closely packed with grim acres of brick and stone. + +Tom discovered Charing Village presently, and rested himself at the +beautiful cross built there by a bereaved king of earlier days; then +idled down a quiet, lovely road, past the great cardinal's stately +palace, toward a far more mighty and majestic palace beyond--Westminster. +Tom stared in glad wonder at the vast pile of masonry, the wide-spreading +wings, the frowning bastions and turrets, the huge stone gateway, with +its gilded bars and its magnificent array of colossal granite lions, and +other the signs and symbols of English royalty. Was the desire of his +soul to be satisfied at last? Here, indeed, was a king's palace. Might +he not hope to see a prince now--a prince of flesh and blood, if Heaven +were willing? + +At each side of the gilded gate stood a living statue--that is to say, an +erect and stately and motionless man-at-arms, clad from head to heel in +shining steel armour. At a respectful distance were many country folk, +and people from the city, waiting for any chance glimpse of royalty that +might offer. Splendid carriages, with splendid people in them and +splendid servants outside, were arriving and departing by several other +noble gateways that pierced the royal enclosure. + +Poor little Tom, in his rags, approached, and was moving slowly and +timidly past the sentinels, with a beating heart and a rising hope, when +all at once he caught sight through the golden bars of a spectacle that +almost made him shout for joy. Within was a comely boy, tanned and brown +with sturdy outdoor sports and exercises, whose clothing was all of +lovely silks and satins, shining with jewels; at his hip a little +jewelled sword and dagger; dainty buskins on his feet, with red heels; +and on his head a jaunty crimson cap, with drooping plumes fastened with +a great sparkling gem. Several gorgeous gentlemen stood near--his +servants, without a doubt. Oh! he was a prince--a prince, a living +prince, a real prince--without the shadow of a question; and the prayer +of the pauper-boy's heart was answered at last. + +Tom's breath came quick and short with excitement, and his eyes grew big +with wonder and delight. Everything gave way in his mind instantly to +one desire: that was to get close to the prince, and have a good, +devouring look at him. Before he knew what he was about, he had his face +against the gate-bars. The next instant one of the soldiers snatched him +rudely away, and sent him spinning among the gaping crowd of country +gawks and London idlers. The soldier said,-- + +"Mind thy manners, thou young beggar!" + +The crowd jeered and laughed; but the young prince sprang to the gate +with his face flushed, and his eyes flashing with indignation, and cried +out,-- + +"How dar'st thou use a poor lad like that? How dar'st thou use the King +my father's meanest subject so? Open the gates, and let him in!" + +You should have seen that fickle crowd snatch off their hats then. You +should have heard them cheer, and shout, "Long live the Prince of Wales!" + +The soldiers presented arms with their halberds, opened the gates, and +presented again as the little Prince of Poverty passed in, in his +fluttering rags, to join hands with the Prince of Limitless Plenty. + +Edward Tudor said-- + +"Thou lookest tired and hungry: thou'st been treated ill. Come with +me." + +Half a dozen attendants sprang forward to--I don't know what; interfere, +no doubt. But they were waved aside with a right royal gesture, and they +stopped stock still where they were, like so many statues. Edward took +Tom to a rich apartment in the palace, which he called his cabinet. By +his command a repast was brought such as Tom had never encountered before +except in books. The prince, with princely delicacy and breeding, sent +away the servants, so that his humble guest might not be embarrassed by +their critical presence; then he sat near by, and asked questions while +Tom ate. + +"What is thy name, lad?" + +"Tom Canty, an' it please thee, sir." + +"'Tis an odd one. Where dost live?" + +"In the city, please thee, sir. Offal Court, out of Pudding Lane." + +"Offal Court! Truly 'tis another odd one. Hast parents?" + +"Parents have I, sir, and a grand-dam likewise that is but indifferently +precious to me, God forgive me if it be offence to say it--also twin +sisters, Nan and Bet." + +"Then is thy grand-dam not over kind to thee, I take it?" + +"Neither to any other is she, so please your worship. She hath a wicked +heart, and worketh evil all her days." + +"Doth she mistreat thee?" + +"There be times that she stayeth her hand, being asleep or overcome with +drink; but when she hath her judgment clear again, she maketh it up to me +with goodly beatings." + +A fierce look came into the little prince's eyes, and he cried out-- + +"What! Beatings?" + +"Oh, indeed, yes, please you, sir." + +"BEATINGS!--and thou so frail and little. Hark ye: before the night +come, she shall hie her to the Tower. The King my father"-- + +"In sooth, you forget, sir, her low degree. The Tower is for the great +alone." + +"True, indeed. I had not thought of that. I will consider of her +punishment. Is thy father kind to thee?" + +"Not more than Gammer Canty, sir." + +"Fathers be alike, mayhap. Mine hath not a doll's temper. He smiteth +with a heavy hand, yet spareth me: he spareth me not always with his +tongue, though, sooth to say. How doth thy mother use thee?" + +"She is good, sir, and giveth me neither sorrow nor pain of any sort. +And Nan and Bet are like to her in this." + +"How old be these?" + +"Fifteen, an' it please you, sir." + +"The Lady Elizabeth, my sister, is fourteen, and the Lady Jane Grey, my +cousin, is of mine own age, and comely and gracious withal; but my sister +the Lady Mary, with her gloomy mien and--Look you: do thy sisters forbid +their servants to smile, lest the sin destroy their souls?" + +"They? Oh, dost think, sir, that THEY have servants?" + +The little prince contemplated the little pauper gravely a moment, then +said-- + +"And prithee, why not? Who helpeth them undress at night? Who attireth +them when they rise?" + +"None, sir. Would'st have them take off their garment, and sleep +without--like the beasts?" + +"Their garment! Have they but one?" + +"Ah, good your worship, what would they do with more? Truly they have +not two bodies each." + +"It is a quaint and marvellous thought! Thy pardon, I had not meant to +laugh. But thy good Nan and thy Bet shall have raiment and lackeys enow, +and that soon, too: my cofferer shall look to it. No, thank me not; +'tis nothing. Thou speakest well; thou hast an easy grace in it. Art +learned?" + +"I know not if I am or not, sir. The good priest that is called Father +Andrew taught me, of his kindness, from his books." + +"Know'st thou the Latin?" + +"But scantly, sir, I doubt." + +"Learn it, lad: 'tis hard only at first. The Greek is harder; but +neither these nor any tongues else, I think, are hard to the Lady +Elizabeth and my cousin. Thou should'st hear those damsels at it! But +tell me of thy Offal Court. Hast thou a pleasant life there?" + +"In truth, yes, so please you, sir, save when one is hungry. There be +Punch-and-Judy shows, and monkeys--oh such antic creatures! and so +bravely dressed!--and there be plays wherein they that play do shout and +fight till all are slain, and 'tis so fine to see, and costeth but a +farthing--albeit 'tis main hard to get the farthing, please your +worship." + +"Tell me more." + +"We lads of Offal Court do strive against each other with the cudgel, +like to the fashion of the 'prentices, sometimes." + +The prince's eyes flashed. Said he-- + +"Marry, that would not I mislike. Tell me more." + +"We strive in races, sir, to see who of us shall be fleetest." + +"That would I like also. Speak on." + +"In summer, sir, we wade and swim in the canals and in the river, and +each doth duck his neighbour, and splatter him with water, and dive and +shout and tumble and--" + +"'Twould be worth my father's kingdom but to enjoy it once! Prithee go +on." + +"We dance and sing about the Maypole in Cheapside; we play in the sand, +each covering his neighbour up; and times we make mud pastry--oh the +lovely mud, it hath not its like for delightfulness in all the world!--we +do fairly wallow in the mud, sir, saving your worship's presence." + +"Oh, prithee, say no more, 'tis glorious! If that I could but clothe me +in raiment like to thine, and strip my feet, and revel in the mud once, +just once, with none to rebuke me or forbid, meseemeth I could forego the +crown!" + +"And if that I could clothe me once, sweet sir, as thou art clad--just +once--" + +"Oho, would'st like it? Then so shall it be. Doff thy rags, and don +these splendours, lad! It is a brief happiness, but will be not less +keen for that. We will have it while we may, and change again before any +come to molest." + +A few minutes later the little Prince of Wales was garlanded with Tom's +fluttering odds and ends, and the little Prince of Pauperdom was tricked +out in the gaudy plumage of royalty. The two went and stood side by side +before a great mirror, and lo, a miracle: there did not seem to have been +any change made! They stared at each other, then at the glass, then at +each other again. At last the puzzled princeling said-- + +"What dost thou make of this?" + +"Ah, good your worship, require me not to answer. It is not meet that +one of my degree should utter the thing." + +"Then will _I_ utter it. Thou hast the same hair, the same eyes, the +same voice and manner, the same form and stature, the same face and +countenance that I bear. Fared we forth naked, there is none could say +which was you, and which the Prince of Wales. And, now that I am clothed +as thou wert clothed, it seemeth I should be able the more nearly to feel +as thou didst when the brute soldier--Hark ye, is not this a bruise upon +your hand?" + +"Yes; but it is a slight thing, and your worship knoweth that the poor +man-at-arms--" + +"Peace! It was a shameful thing and a cruel!" cried the little prince, +stamping his bare foot. "If the King--Stir not a step till I come again! +It is a command!" + +In a moment he had snatched up and put away an article of national +importance that lay upon a table, and was out at the door and flying +through the palace grounds in his bannered rags, with a hot face and +glowing eyes. As soon as he reached the great gate, he seized the bars, +and tried to shake them, shouting-- + +"Open! Unbar the gates!" + +The soldier that had maltreated Tom obeyed promptly; and as the prince +burst through the portal, half-smothered with royal wrath, the soldier +fetched him a sounding box on the ear that sent him whirling to the +roadway, and said-- + +"Take that, thou beggar's spawn, for what thou got'st me from his +Highness!" + +The crowd roared with laughter. The prince picked himself out of the +mud, and made fiercely at the sentry, shouting-- + +"I am the Prince of Wales, my person is sacred; and thou shalt hang for +laying thy hand upon me!" + +The soldier brought his halberd to a present-arms and said mockingly-- + +"I salute your gracious Highness." Then angrily--"Be off, thou crazy +rubbish!" + +Here the jeering crowd closed round the poor little prince, and hustled +him far down the road, hooting him, and shouting-- + +"Way for his Royal Highness! Way for the Prince of Wales!" + + + +Chapter IV. The Prince's troubles begin. + +After hours of persistent pursuit and persecution, the little prince was +at last deserted by the rabble and left to himself. As long as he had +been able to rage against the mob, and threaten it royally, and royally +utter commands that were good stuff to laugh at, he was very +entertaining; but when weariness finally forced him to be silent, he was +no longer of use to his tormentors, and they sought amusement elsewhere. +He looked about him, now, but could not recognise the locality. He was +within the city of London--that was all he knew. He moved on, aimlessly, +and in a little while the houses thinned, and the passers-by were +infrequent. He bathed his bleeding feet in the brook which flowed then +where Farringdon Street now is; rested a few moments, then passed on, and +presently came upon a great space with only a few scattered houses in it, +and a prodigious church. He recognised this church. Scaffoldings were +about, everywhere, and swarms of workmen; for it was undergoing elaborate +repairs. The prince took heart at once--he felt that his troubles were +at an end, now. He said to himself, "It is the ancient Grey Friars' +Church, which the king my father hath taken from the monks and given for +a home for ever for poor and forsaken children, and new-named it Christ's +Church. Right gladly will they serve the son of him who hath done so +generously by them--and the more that that son is himself as poor and as +forlorn as any that be sheltered here this day, or ever shall be." + +He was soon in the midst of a crowd of boys who were running, jumping, +playing at ball and leap-frog, and otherwise disporting themselves, and +right noisily, too. They were all dressed alike, and in the fashion +which in that day prevailed among serving-men and 'prentices{1}--that is +to say, each had on the crown of his head a flat black cap about the size +of a saucer, which was not useful as a covering, it being of such scanty +dimensions, neither was it ornamental; from beneath it the hair fell, +unparted, to the middle of the forehead, and was cropped straight around; +a clerical band at the neck; a blue gown that fitted closely and hung as +low as the knees or lower; full sleeves; a broad red belt; bright yellow +stockings, gartered above the knees; low shoes with large metal buckles. +It was a sufficiently ugly costume. + +The boys stopped their play and flocked about the prince, who said with +native dignity-- + +"Good lads, say to your master that Edward Prince of Wales desireth +speech with him." + +A great shout went up at this, and one rude fellow said-- + +"Marry, art thou his grace's messenger, beggar?" + +The prince's face flushed with anger, and his ready hand flew to his hip, +but there was nothing there. There was a storm of laughter, and one boy +said-- + +"Didst mark that? He fancied he had a sword--belike he is the prince +himself." + +This sally brought more laughter. Poor Edward drew himself up proudly +and said-- + +"I am the prince; and it ill beseemeth you that feed upon the king my +father's bounty to use me so." + +This was vastly enjoyed, as the laughter testified. The youth who had +first spoken, shouted to his comrades-- + +"Ho, swine, slaves, pensioners of his grace's princely father, where be +your manners? Down on your marrow bones, all of ye, and do reverence to +his kingly port and royal rags!" + +With boisterous mirth they dropped upon their knees in a body and did +mock homage to their prey. The prince spurned the nearest boy with his +foot, and said fiercely-- + +"Take thou that, till the morrow come and I build thee a gibbet!" + +Ah, but this was not a joke--this was going beyond fun. The laughter +ceased on the instant, and fury took its place. A dozen shouted-- + +"Hale him forth! To the horse-pond, to the horse-pond! Where be the +dogs? Ho, there, Lion! ho, Fangs!" + +Then followed such a thing as England had never seen before--the sacred +person of the heir to the throne rudely buffeted by plebeian hands, and +set upon and torn by dogs. + +As night drew to a close that day, the prince found himself far down in +the close-built portion of the city. His body was bruised, his hands +were bleeding, and his rags were all besmirched with mud. He wandered on +and on, and grew more and more bewildered, and so tired and faint he +could hardly drag one foot after the other. He had ceased to ask +questions of anyone, since they brought him only insult instead of +information. He kept muttering to himself, "Offal Court--that is the +name; if I can but find it before my strength is wholly spent and I drop, +then am I saved--for his people will take me to the palace and prove that +I am none of theirs, but the true prince, and I shall have mine own +again." And now and then his mind reverted to his treatment by those +rude Christ's Hospital boys, and he said, "When I am king, they shall not +have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books; for a full +belly is little worth where the mind is starved, and the heart. I will +keep this diligently in my remembrance, that this day's lesson be not +lost upon me, and my people suffer thereby; for learning softeneth the +heart and breedeth gentleness and charity." {1} + +The lights began to twinkle, it came on to rain, the wind rose, and a raw +and gusty night set in. The houseless prince, the homeless heir to the +throne of England, still moved on, drifting deeper into the maze of +squalid alleys where the swarming hives of poverty and misery were massed +together. + +Suddenly a great drunken ruffian collared him and said-- + +"Out to this time of night again, and hast not brought a farthing home, I +warrant me! If it be so, an' I do not break all the bones in thy lean +body, then am I not John Canty, but some other." + +The prince twisted himself loose, unconsciously brushed his profaned +shoulder, and eagerly said-- + +"Oh, art HIS father, truly? Sweet heaven grant it be so--then wilt thou +fetch him away and restore me!" + +"HIS father? I know not what thou mean'st; I but know I am THY father, +as thou shalt soon have cause to--" + +"Oh, jest not, palter not, delay not!--I am worn, I am wounded, I can +bear no more. Take me to the king my father, and he will make thee rich +beyond thy wildest dreams. Believe me, man, believe me!--I speak no lie, +but only the truth!--put forth thy hand and save me! I am indeed the +Prince of Wales!" + +The man stared down, stupefied, upon the lad, then shook his head and +muttered-- + +"Gone stark mad as any Tom o' Bedlam!"--then collared him once more, and +said with a coarse laugh and an oath, "But mad or no mad, I and thy +Gammer Canty will soon find where the soft places in thy bones lie, or +I'm no true man!" + +With this he dragged the frantic and struggling prince away, and +disappeared up a front court followed by a delighted and noisy swarm of +human vermin. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Prince and The Pauper, Part 1. +by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER, PART 1. *** + +***** This file should be named 7154.txt or 7154.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/7/1/5/7154/ + +Produced by David Widger + +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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