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* * * * * ILLUSTRATIONS `` BUT SHE REMEMBERED THE LITTLE MISS JESSAMINE '' _ Frontispiece _ TITLEPAGE `` NEXT DAY JANE HAD HEARD MORE '' AT THE POND `` JACKANAPES COULD HARDLY SLEEP FOR SPECULATING '' `` HE WAS DISPOSED TO TALK CONFIDENTIALLY '' THE GENERAL 'S GRANDSON THE BOY TRUMPETER TAILPIECE FINIS * * * * * '' _ If I might buffet for my love , or bound my horse for her favors , I could lay on like a butcher , and sit like a Jackanapes , never off _ ! '' KING HENRY V , Act 5 , Scene 2 . * * * * * JACKANAPES Last noon beheld them full of lusty life , Last eve in Beauty 's circle proudly gay , The midnight brought the signal sound of strife , The morn the marshalling in arms -- the day Battle 's magnificently stern array ! The thunder clouds close o'er it , which when rent The earth is covered thick with other clay , Which her own clay shall cover , heaped and pent , Rider and horse : -- friend , foe , -- in one red burial blent . Their praise is hymn 'd by loftier harps than mine : Yet one would I select from that proud throng . -- to thee , to thousands , of whom each And one as all a ghastly gap did make In his own kind and kindred , whom to teach Forgetfulness were mercy for their sake ; The Archangel 's trump , not glory 's , must awake Those whom they thirst for .