Beauty of chivalric sports ... Their superiority to those of
Greece and Rome ... Origin of tournaments ... Reasons for holding
them ... Practice in arms ... Courtesy ... By whom they were held
... Qualifications for tourneying ... Ceremonies of the
tournament ... Arrival of the knights ... Publication of their
names ... Reasons for it ... Disguised knights ... The lists ...
Ladies the judges of the tournament ... Delicate courtesy at
tournaments ... Morning of the sports ... Knights led by ladies,
who imitated the dress of knights ... Nature of tourneying
weapons ... Knights wore ladies' favours ... The preparation ...
The encounter ... What lance-strokes won the prize ... Conclusion
of the sports ... The festival ... Delivery of the prize ...
Knights thanked by ladies ... The ball ... Liberality ...
Tournaments opposed by the popes ... The opposition unjust ...
The joust ... Description of the joust to the utterance ... Joust
between a Scotch and an English knight ... Jousting for love of
the ladies ... A singular instance of it ... Joust between a
French and an English squire ... Admirable skill of jousters ...
Singular questions regarding jousts ... An Earl of Warwick ...
Celebrated joust at St. Inglebertes ... Joust between Lord Scales
and the Bastard of Burgundy ... The romance of jousts ... The
passage of arms ... Use of tournaments and jousts 258