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Page 43 - And than suld the squier hald up his handis to heuyn, and his eyne to the hicht, and his hert to God, syttand on his kneis, and thare suld the prince have the suerd redy of honour, gylt with gold, and belt it about his sydis, in takenyng of chastitee, justice, and cheritee, and thare the knycht suld outhir geve him a strake with his hand, or with a drawin suerd, in the nek, to think on the poyntis and defend his dewiteis.8 1 See Don Quixote, Chapter in.
Page xxix - ... we begynne this book of the ordre of chyualry For to shewe that to the sygnefyaunce of god / the prynce almyghty whiche...
Page 31 - ... bot gif it be throw pride or surquidy, that is callit our presumptuous in him self: the quhilk God tholes quhilom be punyst in bataill place. Bot the curage of a lele knycht, that for a lele caus debatis, may nocht be our cummyn, bot gif it be for sum syn 10 agaynis the ordre of knychthede.
Page xxix - Here begynneth the Table of this present booke Intytled the Book of the ordre of chyvalry or knyghthode.
Page 6 - And alssone as }?at the knycAt sawe in syk a kynde 20 sik ane honourable man, he left his contemplacioun and tuke out a buke of his bosum and began to rede. And sone quhen the pallefray put doune his hede in the well for to drynk, the squier...
Page 16 - ... to be a servand, for he may never wele tak na knawe the suetenes that it is tobe the lord, bot gif he had sum knaulage of the sourness that it is, and payne to a gude hert, to be ane underlout or a servand.
Page 56 - Of the quhilk conquest cummys ire, 5 and invye, and redy murther and slauchter, quhilkis cummys seldyn, bot that pryde be in thair falouschip. And thus throu glutony is gaderit and assemblyt all the foule company of the vii dedely synnis. And thus knychtis that haldis thir wayis, gais nocht in 10 the hall of noblesse.
Page 6 - And sa befell that in the samyn tyme befell a grete stormy wynter, in the quhilk a worthy king had sett and ordanyt a grete assemblee of lordis and knychtis and worthy men, for hie, grete, and honourable actis to be done, in the quhilkis mony...
Page x - ... Theologia Platonica, imprimée à Florence en 1482, ne reparut que dans les œuvres complètes en i56i. Sa source directe, immédiate, doit être plus près de lui. Je la trouve dans Symphorien Champier, son ami et contemporain, dont l'Ordre de chevalerie débute ainsi : A l'honneur d'iceluy qui par sa providence colloca la terre au centre du monde, qui est cause des causes, duquel la sapience a rempli toutes choses, qui est unité parfaite, qui donne aux princes régner, duquel proviennent toutes...
Page 5 - ... his persone in syk worschip of honestee as he was wount, that filth of elde schamyt him nocht, quhill he had 3eldit to God and nature his naturale dewiteis : and als, that the vexacioun of the warld gert him nocht...