CHAP. V. DAMES AND DAMSELS, AND LADY-LOVE.

Courtesy ... Education ... Music ... Graver sciences ... Dress

... Knowledge of medicine ... Every-day life of the maiden ...

Chivalric love ... The idolatry of the knight's passion ...

Bravery inspired by love ... Character of woman in the eyes of a

knight ... Peculiar nature of his love ... Qualities of knights

admired by women ... A tale of chivalric love ... Constancy ...

Absence of jealousy ... Knights asserted by arms their mistress's

beauty ... Penitents of love ... Other peculiarities of chivalric

love ... The passion universal ... Story of Aristotle ...

Chivalric love the foe to feudal distinctions ... But preserved

religion ... When attachments were formed ... Societies of

knights for the defence of ladies ... Knights of the lady in the

green field ... Customs in England ... Unchivalric to take women

prisoners ... Morals of chivalric times ... Heroines of chivalry

... Queen Philippa ... The Countess of March ... Tales of Jane of

Mountfort and of Marzia degl' Ubaldini ... Nobleness of the

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