LOVE, DEMAGOGY, AND SCIENCE ALL EQUALLY OFF-SPRING OF THE SAME PROLIFIC DELUSION,--NAMELY, THAT MEAN SOULS (THE EARTH'S MAJORITY) ARE WORTH THE HOPE AND THE AGONY OF NOBLE SOULS, THE EVERLASTING SUFFERING AND ASPIRING FEW.
CHAPTER I New Dissentions II The Would-be Improvers of Jove's Football, Earth--The Sad Father and the Sad Child--The Fair Rivals III Wherein the Demagogue seeks the Courtier IV Sibyll V Katherine VI Joy for Adam, and Hope for Sibyll--and Popular Friar Bungey! VII A Love Scene
BOOK VII
THE POPULAR REBELLION
CHAPTER
I The White Lion of March shakes his Mane II The Camp at Olney III The Camp of the Rebels IV The Norman Earl and the Saxon Demagogue confer V What Faith Edward IV purposeth to keep with Earl and People VI What befalls King Edward on his Escape from Olney VII How King Edward arrives at the Castle of Middleham VIII The Ancients rightly gave to the Goddess of Eloquence a Crown IX Wedded Confidence and Love--the Earl and the Prelate--the Prelate and the King--Schemes--Wiles--and the Birth of a Dark Thought destined to eclipse a Sun
BOOK VIII
IN WHICH THE LAST LINK BETWEEN KING-MAKER AND KING SNAPS ASUNDER
CHAPTER
I The Lady Anne visits the Court II The Sleeping Innocence--the Wakeful Crime III New Dangers to the House of York--and the King's Heart allies itself with Rebellion against the King's Throne IV The Foster-brothers V The Lover and the Gallant--Woman's Choice VI Warwick returns-appeases a Discontented Prince-and confers with a Revengeful Conspirator VII The Fear and the Flight VIII The Group round the Death-bed of the Lancastrian Widow
BOOK IX.
THE WANDERERS AND THE EXILES
CHAPTER
I How the Great Baron becomes as Great a Rebel II Many Things briefly told III The Plot of the Hostelry--the Maid and the Scholar in their Home IV The World's Justice, and the Wisdom of our Ancestors V The Fugitives are captured--the Tymbesteres reappear-- Moonlight on the Revel of the Living--Moonlight on the Slumber of the Dead
VI The Subtle Craft of Richard of Gloucester VII Warwick and his Family in Exile VIII How the Heir of Lancaster meets the King-maker IX The Interview of Earl Warwick and Queen Margaret X Love and Marriage--Doubts of Conscience--Domestic Jealousy-- and Household Treason
BOOK X.
THE RETURN OF THE KING-MAKER
CHAPTER
I The Maid's Hope, the Courtier's Love, and the Sage's Comfort II The Man awakes in the Sage, and the She-wolf again hath tracked the Lamb III Virtuous Resolves submitted to the Test of Vanity and the World IV The Strife which Sibyll had courted, between Katherine and herself, commences in Serious Earnest V The Meeting of Hastings and Katherine VI Hastings learns what has befallen Sibyll, repairs to the King, and encounters an old Rival VII The Landing of Lord Warwick, and the Events that ensue thereon VIII What befell Adam Warner and Sibyll when made subject to the Great Friar Bungey IX The Deliberations of Mayor and Council, while Lord Warwick marches upon London X The Triumphal Entry of the Earl--the Royal Captive in the Tower--the Meeting between King-maker and King XI The Tower in Commotion
BOOK XI
THE NEW POSITION OF THE KING-MAKER
CHAPTER
I Wherein Master Adam Warner is notably commended and advanced--and Greatness says to Wisdom, "Thy Destiny be mine, Amen" II The Prosperity of the Outer Show--the Cares of the Inner Man III Further Views into the Heart of Man, and the Conditions of Power IV The Return of Edward of York V The Progress of the Plantagenet VI Lord Warwick, with the Foe in the field and the Traitor at The Hearth
BOOK XII
THE BATTLE OF BARNET
CHAPTER
I A King in his City hopes to recover his Realm--A Woman in her Chamber fears to forfeit her own II Sharp is the Kiss of the Falcon's Bear III A Pause IV-VI The Battle VII The last Pilgrims in the long Procession to the Common Bourne
BOOK I.
THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER MARMADUKE NEVILE.
CHAPTER I.
THE PASTIME-GROUND OF OLD COCKAIGNE.
Westward, beyond the still pleasant, but even then no longer solitary, hamlet of Charing, a broad space, broken here and there by scattered houses and venerable pollards, in the early spring of 1467, presented the rural scene for the sports and pastimes of the inhabitants of Westminster and London. Scarcely need we say that open spaces for the popular games and diversions were then numerous in the suburbs of the metropolis,--grateful to some the fresh pools of Islington; to others, the grass-bare fields of Finsbury; to all, the hedgeless plains of vast Mile-end.