 ... which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings and from hence had in renown over all Christendom. There I read it in the oath of every knight, that he should defend to the expense of his best blood, or of his...  Bulletin of the John Rylands Library - Page 200by John Rylands Library - 1924Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1896 - 226 pages
...best blood, or of his life if it so befell nTinTTne honor and chastity of virgin or matron ; from_ whence even then I learned what a noble virtue chastity sure ~ must be, to be the defense of which so many worthies, by~ _ such a, dear adventure oj themselves, had sworn. And_if... | |
 | John St. Loe Strachey - 1897 - 360 pages
...and chastity of virgin or matron. From whence even then I learnt what a noble virtue chastity ever must be, to the defence of which so many worthies by such a dear adventure of themselves had sworn. And if I found in the story afterwards any of them by word or deed breaking that oath, I judged it... | |
 | John Milton - 1898 - 358 pages
...should defend to the expense of his best blood, or of his life, if it so befel him, the honour and chastity of virgin or matron. From whence even then I learned what a noble virtue chastity ever must be." The divine volumes of Plato taught him that " Love begins and ends in the soul, and... | |
 | John Milton - 1899 - 346 pages
...should defend to the expense of his best blood, or of his life, if it so befell him, the honour and chastity of virgin or matron; from whence even then...by such a dear adventure of themselves, had sworn. And if I found in the story afterward, any of them, by word or deed, breaking that oath, I judged it... | |
 | John Milton - 1899 - 350 pages
...should defend to the expense of his best blood, or of his life, if it so befell him, the honour and chastity of virgin or matron ; from whence even then...by such a dear adventure of themselves, had sworn. And if I found in the story afterward, any of them, by word or deed, breaking that oath, I judged it... | |
 | Sir Thomas Malory - 1899 - 590 pages
...of his life, if it so befel him, the honour and chastity of virgin or matron ; from whence even them I learned what a noble virtue chastity sure must be, to the defence of which so i many worthies, by such a dear adventure of themselves, had sworn ; and if I found in the story afterward,... | |
 | John Milton - 1899 - 284 pages
...should defend to the expense of his best blood, or of his life, if it so befel him, the honour and chastity of virgin or matron. From whence even then I learned what a noble virtue chastity ever must be." The divine volumes of Plato taught him that " Love begins and ends in the soul, and... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 450 pages
...should defend to the expense of his best blood, or of his life, if it so befell him, the honor and chastity of virgin or matron; from whence even then...what a noble virtue chastity sure must be, to the defense of which so many worthies, by such a dear adventure of themselves, had sworn. And if I found... | |
 | 1900 - 570 pages
...and chastity of virgin or matron. Prom whence even then I learnt what a noble virtue chastity ever must be, to the defence of which so many worthies by such a dear adventure of themselves had sworn. And if I found in the story afterwards any of them by word or deed breaking that oath, I judged it... | |
 | Mark Pattison - 1901 - 232 pages
...and chastity of virgin or matron. From whence even then I learnt what a noble virtue chastity ever must be, to the defence of which so many worthies by such a dear adventure of themselves had sworn. And if I found in the story afterwards any of them by word or deed breaking that oath, I judged it... | |
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