The Buke of the Order of Knyghthood: Translated from the French by Sir Gilbert Hay, KnightLlull, Ramon
Philosophy
The Buke of the Order of Knyghthood: Translated from the French by Sir Gilbert Hay, Knight
Llull, Ramon
Chivalry
And thus quhen
clerkis studyis in sciencis, how men suld be techit to knawe, lufe, and
serue God, and doubt, and to geue gude ensample of doctrine to the lawit
peple to rycht sa do, for the honour and reuerence of Almychtie God in
deuocioun and gude lyf. Rycht sa apon the tothir part, quhen Knychtis ar
maid be Princis, thai suld sett thame with gude virtues and gude ensamplis
and nobless of curage, and othir wayis gif nede war be force of armes to
manetene, gouerne and defend the small peple in all justice and equitee, in
lufe and drede both of God and of the Prince as is before recomptit, be the
quhilkis thai suld throu lufe haue contynuale charitee amang tham, and be
the drede thai suld stand awe to do oucht ilkane till othir wrang, or
wikkitness; and here atour as the clerkis techis thair scoleris to the
sculis of sciencis of clergy, sa suld a gude Knycht teche his barnis the
nobless of the poyntis and propereteis of chyualrie; and that suld be done
in thair [gh]outhede: And first and formast a Knycht suld lere his sone to
be doctryned in vertues, and syne suld he be doctrinyt and techit to ryding
in his [gh]outhede, or ellis he sall neuer be gude rydare; and ay as he
cummys till elde, that he lere to gouerne hors and armouris; and that he be
seruand to sum lord, and vse him in armes lang or he tak the Ordre, ffor
vnworthy war he suld be a lord or a maister that knew neuer quhat it is to
be a seruand, ffor he may neuer wele tak na knawe the suetenes that it is
to be the lord, bot gif he had sum knaulage of the sourness that it is, and
payne to a gude hert, to be ane vnderlout or a seruand. And tharfore war he
neuer sa grete a lordis sone appertenand to be lord, he war the better that
in [gh]outhede sum lord that he seruit to kerue before him, to serue in
chaumer, till arme a lord, till ouresee his hors, that thai war wele
gouernyt and grathit, to haunt armouris, to ryn a spere, to excercise
wapnis, and othir habiliteis of honour quhilk appertenis to nobless, and
namely, thai suld be techit and doctrinyt be a Knycht thay [gh]ong lordis
sonis that thocht to be knychtis, ffor rycht as it war nocht semand till a
[gh]ong man that wald lere to be a man of craft, suld lere at ane othir
that war nocht of the craft, sa is it vnsemand that lordis sonis that wald
be in the maist noble Ordre of Knychthede suld sett thame to lere the
documents and propereteis of the Ordre of Knychthede, bot at thame that war
expert in the knaulage of virtues and gude thewis honourable that to the
said Ordre apperteins; the quhilkis ar vnknawable till ignoraunt and
vnworthy personis; ffor the grete nobless of the said Ordre may nocht ferd
at keping of hors na justis na tournaymentis, na [gh]it to haunt na duell
with lordis, na knychtis in company, to pas in weris na in bataillis. Bot
it war rycht expedient that thare war deuisit, and ordanyt be the Prince,
scolis of doctrinyng and teching of the noble poyntis and properteis that
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