General array of knights ... Companions in arms ... The nature of a cavalier's valiancy ... Singular bravery of Sir Robert Knowles ... Bravery incited by vows ... Fantastic circumstances ... The humanities of chivalric war ... Ransoming ... Reason of courtesies in battles ... Curious pride of knighthood ... Prisoners ... Instance of knightly honour ... Independence of knights, and knight-errantry ... Knights fought the battles of other countries ... English knights dislike wars in Spain ... Their disgust at Spanish wines ... Principles of their active conduct ... Knightly independence consistent with discipline ... Religion of the knight ... His devotion ... His intolerance ... General nature of his virtue ... Fidelity to obligations ... Generousness ... Singular instance of it ... Romantic excess of it ... Liberality ... Humility ... Courtesy ... EVERY-DAY LIFE OF THE KNIGHT ... Falconry ... Chess playing ... Story of a knight's love of chess ... Minstrelsy ... Romances ... Conversation ... Nature and form of chivalric entertainments ... Festival and vow of the pheasant 117 CHAP. V. DAMES AND DAMSELS, AND LADY-LOVE. Courtesy ... Education ... Music ... Graver sciences ... Dress ... Knowledge of medicine ... Every-day life of the maiden ... Chivalric love ... The idolatry of the knight's passion ... Bravery inspired by love ... Character of woman in the eyes of a knight ... Peculiar nature of his love ... Qualities of knights admired by women ... A tale of chivalric love ... Constancy ... Absence of jealousy ... Knights asserted by arms their mistress's beauty ... Penitents of love ... Other peculiarities of chivalric love ... The passion universal ... Story of Aristotle ... Chivalric love the foe to feudal distinctions ... But preserved religion ... When attachments were formed ... Societies of knights for the defence of ladies ... Knights of the lady in the green field ... Customs in England ... Unchivalric to take women prisoners ... Morals of chivalric times ... Heroines of chivalry ... Queen Philippa ... The Countess of March ... Tales of Jane of Mountfort and of Marzia degl' Ubaldini ... Nobleness of the chivalric female character 181 CHAP. VI. TOURNAMENTS AND JOUSTS.