[BOOK I—THE BOOK OFYEA]
[EXORDIUM]	PAGE
The Abbot Milo urbi el orbi, concerningthe Nature of the Leopard	3
[CHAPTER I]
Of Count Richard, and the Fires by Night	5
[CHAPTER II]
How the Fair Jehane bestowed herself	18
[CHAPTER III]
In what Harbour they found the Old Lion	29
[CHAPTER IV]
How Jehane stroked what Alois had madeFierce	41
[CHAPTER V]
How Bertran de Born and Count Richard strove ina Tenzon	56
[CHAPTER VI]
Fruits of the Tenzon: the Back of Saint-Pol, andthe Front of Montferrat	69
[CHAPTER VII]
Of the Crackling of Thorns under Pots	84
[CHAPTER VIII]
How they held Richard off from his Father'sThroat	93
[CHAPTER IX]
Wild Work in the Church of Gisors	102
[CHAPTER X]
Night-work by the Dark Tower	111
[CHAPTER XI]
Of Prophecy; and Jehane in the Perilous Bed	123
[CHAPTER XII]
How they bayed the Old Lion	134
[CHAPTER XIII]
How they met at Fontevrault	145
[CHAPTER XIV]
Of what King Richard said to the Bowing Rood;and what Jehane to King Richard	156
[CHAPTER XV]
Last Tenzon of Bertran de Born	168
[CHAPTER XVI]
Conversation in England of Jehane the Fair	179
[CHAPTER XVII]
Frozen Heart and Red Heart: Cahors	193

[BOOK II—THE BOOK OFNAY]
[CHAPTER I]
The Chapter called Mate-Grifon	209
[CHAPTER II]
Of what Jehane looked for, and whatBerengère had	220
[CHAPTER III]
Who Fought at Acre	235
[CHAPTER IV]
Concerning the Tower of Flies, Saint-Pol, andthe Marquess of Montferrat	248
[CHAPTER V]
The Chapter of Forbidding: how De Gurdun looked,and King Richard hid his Face	262
[CHAPTER VI]
The Chapter called Clytemnestra	282
[CHAPTER VII]
The Chapter of the Sacrifice on Lebanon; alsocalled Cassandra	293
[CHAPTER VIII]
Of the Going-up and Going-down of theMarquess	302
[CHAPTER IX]
How King Richard reaped what Jehane had sowed,and the Soldan was Gleaner	311
[CHAPTER X]
The Chapter called Bonds	327
[CHAPTER XI]
The Chapter called A Latere	338
[CHAPTER XII]
The Chapter of Strife in the Dark	350
[CHAPTER XIII]
Of the Love of Women	362
[CHAPTER XIV]
How the Leopard was loosed	369
[CHAPTER XV]
Oeconomic Reflections of the Old Man ofMusse	380
[CHAPTER XVI]
The Chapter called Chaluz	386
[CHAPTER XVII]
The Keening	396
[EPILOGUEOF THE ABBOT MILO]	408

BOOK I

THE BOOK OF YEA

EXORDIUM

THE ABBOT MILO URBI ET ORBI, CONCERNING THE NATURE OF THE LEOPARD

I like this good man's account of leopards, and find it more pertinent to my matter than you might think. Milo was a Carthusian monk, abbot of the cloister of Saint Mary-of-the-Pine by Poictiers; it was his distinction to be the life-long friend of a man whose friendships were few: certainly it may be said of him that he knew as much of leopards as any one of his time and nation, and that his knowledge was better grounded.

'Your leopard,' he writes, 'is alleged in the books to be offspring of the Lioness and the Pard; and his name, if the Realists have any truth on their side, establishes the fact. But I think he should be called Leolupé, which is to say, got by lion out of bitch-wolf, since two essences burn in him as well as two sorts. This is the nature of the leopard: it is a spotted beast, having two souls, a bright soul and a dark soul. It is black and golden, slim and strong, cat and dog. Hunger drives a dog to hunt, so the leopard; passion the cat, so the leopard. A cat is sufficient unto himself, and a leopard is so; but a dog hangs on a man's nod, and a leopard can so be beguiled. A leopard is sleek as a cat and pleased by stroking; like a cat he will scratch his friend on occasion. Yet again, he has a dog's intrepidity, knows no fear, is single-purposed, not to be called off, longanimous. But the cat in him makes him wary, tempts him to treacherous dealing, keeps him apart from counsels, advises him to keep his own. So the leopard is a lonely beast.' This is interesting, and may be true. But mark him as he goes on.

'I knew the man, my dear master and a great king, who brought the leopards into the shield of England, more proper to do it than his father, being more the thing he signified. Of him, therefore, torn by two natures, cast in two moulds, sport of two fates; the hymned and reviled, the loved and loathed, spendthrift and a miser, king and a beggar, the bond and the free, god and man; of King Richard Yea-and-Nay, so made, so called, and by that unmade, I thus prepare my account.'

So far the abbot with much learning and no little verbosity casts his net. He has the weakness of his age, you observe, and must begin at the beginning; but this is not our custom. Something of Time is behind us; we are conscious of a world replete, and may assume that we have digested part of it. Milo, indeed, like all candid chroniclers, has his value. He is excellent upon himself, a good relish with your meal. However, as we are concerned with King Richard, you shall dip into his bag for refreshment, but must leave the victualling to me.