...passage to this effect we quote from his account of his youth. « I betook me among those lofty fables and romances, which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings, ami from hence had in renowu over all Christendom. There I read it in the oath of every knight, that...

...the introduction to his ' Apology for Smectymnuus.' 'I betook me,' says he, 'among those lofty fables and romances, which recount in solemn cantos, the...oath of every knight, that he should defend to the expense of his best blood or of his life, if it so befel him, the honor and chastity of virgin or matron...

...the introduction to his ' Apology for Smectymnuus.' 'I betook me,' says he, 'among those lofty fables and romances, which recount in solemn cantos, the...oath of every knight, that he should defend to the expense of his best blood or of his life, if it so befel him, the honor and chastity of virgin or matron...

...passage to this effect we quote from his account of his youth. ' I betook me among those lofty fables and romances, which recount in solemn cantos, the...oath of every knight, that he should defend to the expense of his best blood or of his life, if it HO befell him, the honor and chastity of virgin or...

...passage to this effect we quote from his account of his youth. ' I betook me among those lofty fables and romances, which recount in solemn cantos, the...oath of every knight, that he should defend to the expense of his best blood or of his life, if it so befell him, the honor and chastity of virgin or...

...predilection to love the laureat fraternity of poets, and with young feet to wander ' among those lofty fables and romances, which ' recount in solemn cantos the...our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown all over ' Christendom.' But what shall we say to John Wesley — the missionary of the then neglected...

...Civilization in Europe. t " I read it in the oath ofevery true knight, that ho should defend to the expense of his best blood, or of his life, if it so befel him, the honor and chastity of virgin or matron; from whence even then I learned what a noble virtue that sure...

...passage to this effect, we quote from his account of his youth. "I betook me among those lofty fables and romances, which recount in solemn cantos, the...oath of every knight, that he should defend to the expense of his best blood or of his life, if it so befell him, the honour and chastity of virgin or...

...readers,) that I may tell ye whither my younger feet wandered; I betook me among those lofty fables and romances, which recount in solemn cantos the deeds...oath of every knight, that he should defend to the expense of his best blood, or of his life, if it so befel him, the honour and chastity of virgin or...

...that he intended to make Prince Arthur the hero of his epic. It jet remains for modem minstrel " to recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings." Spencer's " continued allegory or darke conceit," leaves the field still open. Blackmore promised what...