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The Three Dead Kings: Part 9 The ghosts, having spoken, all gather and glide Off to their graves, and the kings in the glade Are a little more glad, and agree they should ride Through the red rays of day – and never again grind The grist of their servants, or let pride Deprive them of merciful minds Ripe for redemption – but abide In God’s mercy. The chantry they found Is made holy at mass – And in church, or on moss Where men meet: I bid you, emboss This image. Who’ll believe it? Alas! You don’t? That’s your loss! Amen. Final stanza of a fifteenth century Middle English alliterative poem ‘De Tribus Regibus Mortuis’, attributed to John Audelay, translated by Giles Watson. Repentant, the living kings pledge to build a chantry chapel at which masses can be said for the dead kings: a similar ending to that arranged by the women in the Anturs of Arther. The phrase “on moss” refers to a public place, implying that the idea of decomposition after death should be preached not only by the secular clergy inside the churches, but also by the preaching friars on the wayside. I have softened the rather abruptly didactic final line (literally “Our Lord deliver us from loss”) in favour of a further gloss on the penultimate line, which anticipates that some hard-hearted readers will respond to the ghost story with an unholy incredulity. The picture shows a wall-painting depicting The Three Living and the Three Dead, from Raunds Church, Northamptonshire. A reading is available here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P0vM-zln_o" rel="nofollow">www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P0vM-zln_o</a> ... and whole poem, with critical notes, is here: <a href="http://gileswatson.deviantart.com/#/d52qz9y" rel="nofollow">gileswatson.deviantart.com/#/d52qz9y</a> |
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