Vulgar words in The Life of Sir Richard Burton (Page 1)
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(3) From letters received from Major St. George Burton (to whom I have the pleasure of dedicating this work), Lady Bancroft, Mr. D. MacRitchie, Mr. E. S. Mostyn Pryce (representative of Miss Stisted), Gunley Hall, Staffordshire, M. Charles Carrington, of Paris, who sent me various notes, including an account of Burton's unfinished translation of Apuleius's Golden Ass, the MS. of which is in his possession, the Very Rev.
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The Golden Ass Chapter XXXVII Death of Sir Richard Burton, 20th October 1890 172.
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Burton at once perceived that it would be an exhausting ordeal to make love in such circumstances, but he resolved to try, and a dialogue commenced as follows: "Should you like to be married, senorita?"
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Everybody got into good humour when he began: "Oh take these purple robes away, Give back my cloak of camel's hair," and they laughed till they fell on their backs when he came to the line where the desert beauty calls her Royal husband a "fatted ass."
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On the third day, mounted on an ass, he made for Muna and took part in the ceremony called Stoning the Devil.
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"Oh, no," replied Burton vehemently, "I would rather be the bastard of a king than the son of an honest man."
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He used to insist that the offspring of illicit or unholy unions were in no way to be pitied if they inherited, as if often the case, the culture or splendid physique of the father and the comeliness of the mother; and instanced King Solomon, Falconbridge, in whose "large composition," could be read tokens of King Richard,[FN#138] and the list of notables from Homer to "Pedro's son," as catalogued by Camoens[FN#139] who said: "The meed of valour Bastards aye have claimed By arts or arms, or haply both conjoined."
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Curious to see three editions of the 1,000 Nights advertised at the same time, not to speak of the bastard.
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The Golden Ass and other works left unfinished.
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The Golden Ass.
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Another work that Burton left unfinished was a translation of The Golden Ass of Apuleius--a work known to Englishmen chiefly by Bohn's edition,[FN#626] and the renderings of the episode of Cupid and Psyche by Adlington and Walter Pater (in Marius the Epicurean).
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But him we hailed from afar or near As boldest born of his kinsfolk here And loved as brightest of souls that eyed Life, time, and death with unchangeful cheer, A wider soul than the world was wide, Whose praise made love of him one with pride What part has death or has time in him, Who rode life's list as a god might ride?
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The Golden Ass, and other Works.