...willingness to work or perform one's duty. So Chaucer uses it in the Prior's Tale, (v.46:) " A knight there was, and that a worthy man, That fro the time that he first began To riden out, he loved chivalrie, Troutlieand Honour, Freedom and Chivalrie." See Fervency...

...this god unmerie With his slepy thousande sones, That alwey for to slepe hir wone is. House of F. 76. A knight ther was and that a worthy man, that fro the time, that he first began to ryden out, he lovede chevalrie. Ch's. Prol. 43. Al were they sore hurt and namely oon...

...anon, 2 And made 1 forword 3 erly for to rise, To take oure way ther as I you devise. 4 THE KNIGHT. A KNIGHT ther was, and that a worthy man, That fro the time" that he flrste began To riden out, he We'd chevalrie, 5 Trouthe and honour, fredom and curtesie. Ful worthy...

...1396. The following lines from Chaucer will serve as a specimen of the English of this period : — " A Knight ther was, and that a worthy man, That fro the time that he firste began To riden out, he loved chevalrie, Trouthe and honour, fredom and curtesie. Ful worthy...

...the addition of a foreign element. The following lines are taken from the Canterbury Tales : — " A Knight ther was, and that a worthy man, That fro the time that he firste began To riden out, he loved chevalrie, Trouthe and honour, freedom and curtesie. Ful worthy...

...great light in English literature. XXXII. CANTERBURY TALES. Characters from the Prologue. THE KNIGHT. A Knight ther was* and that a worthy man, That fro the time that he first began To riden out, he loved chevalrie, Trouthe and honour f redom and curtesie. Full worthy...

...BLAKE. Knight. — Chivalrous, honorable, brave, noble, modest — tnost accomplished character. " A Knight ther was, and that a worthy man, That fro the time that he firste began To riden out, he loved chevalrie, Trouthe and honour, fredom and curtesie." " And though...

...WILLIAM BLAKE. Knight. — Chivalrous, honorable, brave, noble, modest — most accomplished character. " A Knight ther was, and that a worthy man, That fro the time that he firste began To riden out, he loved chevalrie, Trouthe and honour, fredom and curtesie." " And though...

...the knight has often been quoted, but it cannot be omitted from any discussion of mediaeval chivalry: A Knight ther was, and that a worthy man, That fro the tyme that he first bigan To ryden out, he lovede chivalrye— Trouthe and honour, fredom and curtesie....

...Toward the year 1400, the English poet Chaucer gives this picture of his ideal knight : "A knight there was, and that a worthy man, That fro the time that he first began To riden out, he lov<5d chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy. . . . And tho...