And how to hang in a more graceful fashion
Than e’er was known before to the dull English nation.”
In fact, he was the pink of politeness, and his gallantry to the fair sex was proverbial. When he was caught at last, pent in “stone walls and chains and iron grates,” their grief was in proportion to his rare merits and his great fame. Butler says, that to his dungeon
“Came ladies from all parts,
To offer up close prisoners their hearts.
Which he received as tribute due—
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Never did bold knight to relieve
Distressed dames, such dreadful feats achieve,
As feeble damsels for his sake