History Of Chivalry Vol I by Mills

Author:Mills [Mills]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781138976108
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2016-10-11T00:00:00+00:00

“In visage was he some deal gray,

And had black hair, as I heard say,

But then he was of limbs well made,

With bones great and shoulders braid.

His body well made and lenzie,

As they that saw him said to me.

When he was blyth he was lovely

And meek and sweet in company.

But who in battle might him see

Another countenance had he.

And in his speech he lispt some deal,

But that set him right wonder well.”

The Bruce, p. 13.

* Spenser’s Fairy Queen, book i. canto 4. st. 1.

* “E se la us fa gelos

E us en dona razo,

E us ditz c’ancre no fo

De so que dels huelhs vis,

Diguatz Don. En suy fiz

Que vos disetz vertat,

Mas yeu vay simiat,”

The name of the gentleman who thus consented to distrust the evidence of his senses was Amanieu des Escas, a favourite troubadour in Spain during the thirteenth century. One of the “statutes” in the Court of Love is, according to Chaucer’s report of it, pretty much in the same strain:

“But think that she, so bounteous and fair,

Could not be false, imagine this algate,

And think that tongues wicked would her appair,

Slandering her name, and worshipful estate,

And lovers true to settin at debate,

And though thou seest a fault, right at thine eye,

Excuse it blith, and gloss it prettily.”

Chaucer, Urry’s edit. fo1. 563.

* Mr. Skottowe, in his Essays on Shakspeare (essays which have done more for the right understanding of the great dramatist than all the works of his commentators from Theobald to Malone), observes that, in the play of Troilus and Cressida, a courtly knight of chivalry is often seen under the name of a Trojan hero. The following challenge of Hector is conceived and executed in the true chivalric spirit.

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