From mediæval poems and romances also come glimpses, tantalizingly brief and casual, to be sure, yet glimpses indicative of a tendency to count learning as one of the possible charms of a heroine.[5] The delightful lady in _Cursor Mundi_, who was described as "learnyd, ware and wise," was also said to be "of much price lovéd." A later maid, likewise of "grete prys," could vie with a modern college girl in the variety and extent of her knowledge: Wyse sche was and curtes of mowthe, All the vii arse sche cowthe. She had maystures at hur honde, The wysest men of that londe, And taght hur astronomye, Arsmetryck and gemetrye. That mayde was of grete prys For sche was bothe warre and wyse.[6] In _Floris and Blanchefleur_, Floris refused to study unless Blanchefleur was taught with him, and she prospered so at her books that her lore was a wonder to all. When she and Floris had been in school five years together, they knew Latin and could write well on parchment. When Floris went to visit his aunt she set him to learn many things, as other children did, "bot maydons and grome."[7] The wife of Sir Bevis of Hamtoun was taught "fysik and sirgerie" by great masters from Bologna.[8] Melior, the fair mistress of Partonope of Blois, since she was the only heir to the kingdom, was sent to school that she might get great wisdom. She says, "A hundred mastres I had and mo," and adds that God graciously inclined her to learning so that she came to know "the seven sciences" perfectly. She was also trained in herbs and "phisike," in "Divinite and Nygromancy."[9] Thaise, in _Apollonius of Tyre_, combined the "wisdom of a clerk" with every lusti werk, Which to a gentlewoman longeth. She was wel kept, sche was wel loked Sche was wel tawht, sche was wel boked So wel sche spedde hir in hire yowthe That sche of every wisdom cowthe.[10] Medea, in Lydgate's _Troy Book_, had so passionate a desire for knowledge that she became in all the "artis called liberal" as expert and knowing as the best. She was powerful in logic, astronomy, and necromancy.[11]