[6] [See _Quarterly Review_, March, 1812, vol. vii. p. 191: "The moral code of chivalry was not, we admit, quite pure and spotless, but its laxity on some points was redeemed by the noble spirit of gallantry which courted personal danger in the defence of the sovereign ... of women because they are often lovely, and always helpless; and of the priesthood.... Now, _Childe Harold_, if not absolutely craven and recreant, is at least a mortal enemy to all martial exertion, a scoffer at the fair sex, and, apparently, disposed to consider all religions as different modes of superstition." The tone of the review is severer than the Preface indicates. Nor does Byron attempt to reply to the main issue of the indictment, an unknightly aversion from war, but rides off on a minor point, the licentiousness of the Troubadours.] [7] {6} [See _Mémoires sur l'Ancienne Chevalerie_, par M. De la Curne de Sainte-Palaye, Paris, 1781: "Qu'on lise dans l'auteur du roman de Gérard de Roussillon, en Provençal, les détails très-circonstanciés dans lesquels il entre sur la réception faite par le Comte Gérard à l'ambassadeur du roi Charles; on y verra des particularités singulières qui donnent une etrange idée des moeurs et de la politesse de ces siècles aussi corrompus qu'ignorans" (ii. 69). See, too, _ibid., ante_, p. 65: "Si l'on juge des moeurs d'un siècle par les écrits qui nous en sont restés, nous serons en droit de juger que nos ancêtres observèrent mal les loix que leur prescrivirent la décence et l'honnêteté."] [8] [See _Recherches sur les Prérogatives des Dames chez les Gaulois sur les Cours d'Amours_, par M. le Président Rolland [d'Erceville], de l'Académie d'Amiens. Paris, 1787, pp. 18-30, 117, etc.] [9] [The phrase occurs in _The Rovers, or the Double Arrangement_ (_Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin_, 1854, p. 199), by J. Hookham Frere, a skit on the "moral inculcated by the German dramas--the reciprocal duties of one or more husbands to one or more wives." The waiter at the Golden Eagle at Weimar is a warrior in disguise, and rescues the hero, who is imprisoned in the abbey of Quedlinburgh.] [10] {7} ["But the age of chivalry is gone--the unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations," etc. (_Reflections on the Revolution in France_, by the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, M.P., 1868, p. 89).] [11] [Passages relating to the Queen of Tahiti, in _Hawkesworth's Voyages, drawn from journals kept by the several commanders, and from the papers of Joseph Banks, Esq._ (1773, ii. 106), gave occasion to malicious and humorous comment. (See _An Epistle from Mr. Banks, Voyager, Monster-hunter, and Amoroso, To Oberea, Queen of Otaheite_, by A.B.C.) The lampoon, "printed at Batavia for Jacobus Opani" (the Queen's Tahitian for "Banks"), was published in 1773. The authorship is assigned to Major John Scott Waring (1747-1819).] [12] {8} [Compare _Childish Recollections: Poetical Works_, 1898, i. 84, _var_. i.--