[226] Essais Histor. sur Paris, by St. Foix, vol. iii. p. 263, cited by Strutt. Sports and Pastimes, &c. "As it happened, Sir Palomydis looked up towards her (la belle Isaud) where she lay in the window, and he espied how she laughed, and therewith he took such a rejoicing that he smote down what with his spear and with his sword all that ever he met, for through the sight of her he was so enamoured of her love, that he seemed at that time, that had Sir Tristrem and Sir Launcelot been both against him, they would have won no worship of him." Morte d'Arthur, book x. c. 70. [227] Lovelier. [228] Lived. [229] Romance of Ywaine and Gawin. [230] Froissart, c. 249. "Le duc de Lancastre avoit de son heritage en Champaigne: c'estassavoir un chastel entre Troye et Chalons, qui s'appelait Beaufort, et duquel un escuyer Anglais (qui se nommoit le poursuivant d'amour) estait capitaine." [231] Froissart, liv. i. c. 7. [232] Barbour's Bruce, book vi. Hume's (of Godscroft) History of the House of Douglas, p. 29, &c. The description of the good Lord James of Douglas, in Barbour's Bruce, is not uninteresting. "In visage was he some deal gray, And had black hair, as I heard say, But then he was of limbs well made, With bones great and shoulders braid. His body well made and lenzie, As they that saw him said to me. When he was blyth he was lovely And meek and sweet in company. But who in battle might him see Another countenance had he. And in his speech he lispt some deal, But that set him right wonder well." The Bruce, p. 13. [233] Spenser's Fairy Queen, book i. canto 4. st. 1. [234] "E se la us fa gelos E us en dona razo, E us ditz c'ancre no fo De so que dels huelhs vis, Diguatz Don. En suy fiz Que vos disetz vertat, Mas yeu vay simiat." The name of the gentleman who thus consented to distrust the evidence of his senses was Amanieu des Escas, a favourite troubadour in Spain during the thirteenth century. One of the "statutes" in the Court of Love is, according to Chaucer's report of it, pretty much in the same strain: "But think that she, so bounteous and fair, Could not be false, imagine this algate, And think that tongues wicked would her appair, Slandering her name, and worshipful estate, And lovers true to settin at debate, And though thou seest a fault, right at thine eye, Excuse it blith, and gloss it prettily." Chaucer, Urry's edit. fol. 563. [235] Mr. Skottowe, in his Essays on Shakspeare (essays which have done more for the right understanding of the great dramatist than all the works of his commentators from Theobald to Malone), observes that, in the play of Troilus and Cressida, a courtly knight of chivalry is often seen under the name of a Trojan hero. The following challenge of Hector is conceived and executed in the true chivalric spirit.