 | Lydia Maria Child - 1835 - 312 pages
...It was a common maxim of that period that he who knew how to break a lance, and did not understand how to win a lady, was but half a man. A knight without...his duty to alight 'from his horse, and tender his serviee,'npon pain of Ibsing a month's wages, and the favor of all dames ' •and damsels; and he who... | |
 | 1836 - 636 pages
...a second time at a window '.vhcro a handsome woman was seated. " In the Spanish order of the Scaif, duties to women were more insisted on than in any...riding, it was his duty to alight from his horse, and render his service, upon pain of losing a month's wages, and the favour of all dames and damsels; and... | |
 | C Chauncey Burr - 1858 - 208 pages
...be his lady-love or wife. If he happened, when riding, to meet a lady or gentlewoman of the court, it was his duty to alight from his horse and tender his service, upon pain of losing a month's pay, and the favour of all the dames and damsels. The same statute of gallantry decreed, that he who... | |
 | Lola Montez - 1858 - 310 pages
...lady-love or wife. If he happened, when riding to meet a lady or gentlewoman of the court, it was hia duty to alight from his horse, and tender his service, upon pain of losing a month's pay, and the favor of all the dames and damsels. The same statute of gallantry decreed, that he who... | |
 | Charles Chauncey Burr - 1859 - 344 pages
...ever be hia lady-love or wife. If he happened, when riding to meet a lady or gentlewoman of the court, it was his duty to alight from his horse, and tender his service, upon pain of losing a month's pay, and the favor of all the dames and damsels. The same statute of gallantry decreed, that he who... | |
 | Lola Montez - 1859 - 312 pages
...lady-love or wife. If he happened, when riding to meet a lady or gentlewoman of the court, it was ina duty to alight from his horse, and tender his service, upon pain of losing a month's pay, and the favor of all the dames and damsels. The same statute of gallantry decreed, that he who... | |
 | C Chauncey Burr - 1860 - 238 pages
...be his lady-love or wife. If he happened, when riding, to meet a lady or gentlewoman of the court, it was his duty to alight from his horse, and tender his service, upon pain of losing a month's pay, and the favour of all the dames and damsels. The same statute of gallantry decreed that he who... | |
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... beginning of the fourteenth century, the gallantry of knighthood made it a rule that if any knight instituted an action against the daughter of a brother knight, no lady or gentlewoman should ever be his lady-love or wife. If he happened, when riding,... 