Concerning the origin of the code history stammers. The chief authority, Maître André, said that in Broceliande--a locality within the confines of the Arthurian myth--a vavasour--quidam miles--met a lass--formosa puella--who agreed to accept his attentions on condition that he outjousted the Knights of the Round Table and got a falcon from them for her. These labors accomplished and the vavasour rewarded--plenius suo remuneravit amore--there was found attached to the falcon's claw, a scroll, a holy writ, a code of love, a corpus juris amoris.[43] The story is as imaginary as Broceliande. The code was probably derived from some critique of pure courtesy then common in manuals of chivalry. But its source is unimportant. Gradually promulgated throughout Christendom it resulted in making love the subject of law for the administration of which courts open and plenary were founded. These courts which were at once academies of fine sentiments and parliaments of joy, existed, Maître André stated, before Salahaddin decapitated a Christian and lasted, Nostradamus declared, until post-Petrarchian days.[44] The code is as follows: I. Causa conjugii ab amore non est excusatio recta. II. Qui non celat amare non potest. III. Nemo duplici potest amore ligari. IV. Semper amorem minui vel crescere constat. V. Non est sapidum quod amans ab invito sumit amante. VI. Masculus non solet nisi in plena pubertate amare. VII. Biennalis viduitas pro amante defuncto superstiti præscribitur amanti. VIII. Nemo, sine rationis excessu, suo debet amore privari. IX. Amare nemo potest, nisi qui amoris suasione compellitur. X. Amor semper ab avaritia consuevit domiciliis exulare. XI. Non decet amare quarum pudor est nuptias affectare. XII. Verus amans alterius nisi suæ coamantis ex affectu non cupit amplexus. XIII. Amor raro consuevit durare vulgatus. XIV. Facilis perceptio contemptibilem reddit amorem, difficilis eum parum facit haberi. XV. Omnis consuevit amans in coamantis as pectupallescere. XVI. In repentina coamantis visione, cor tremescit amantis. XVII. Novus amor veterem compellit abire. XVIII. Probitas sola quemcumque dignum facit amore. XIX. Si amor minuatur, cito deficit et raro convalescit. XX. Amorosus semper est timorosus. XXI. Ex vera zelotypia affectus semper crescit amandi. XXII. De coamante suspicione percepta zelus interea et affectus crescit amandi. XXIII. Minus dormit et edit quem amoris cogitatio vexat. XXIV. Quilibet amantis actus in coamantis cogitatione finitur. XXV. Verus amans nihil beatum credit, nisi quod cogitat amanti placere. XXVI. Amor nihil posset amori denegare. XXVII. Amans coamantis solatiis satiari non potest.