[201] See the verses of Des Escas, a Troubadour at the court of the King of Arragon.
[202] Knight of the Tower, chap. “How goodly women ought to maintain themselves courteously.”
[203] Sir Tristram, Fytte second, st. 13. and Scott’s note.
[204] Squire of Low Degree.
[205] Sir Degore.
[206] Romance of Guy of Warwick.
[207] Knight of the Tower, chap. “How young maidens ought not lightly to turn their heads here and there.”
[208] Knight of the Tower, chap. intitled, “Of them that will not wear their good clothes on high feasts and holy-days,” and, “How the daughter of a knight lost her marriage.” Memoires de Louis de la Tremouille, cap. xii. p. 169, &c. in the 14th vol. of the great collection of French Memoires.
[209] Fairy Queen, book ii. canto 11. st. 49.
[210] The manners of his times might, perhaps, have been the origin of this picture, for even so late as the reign of Elizabeth, it is mentioned among the accomplishments of the ladies of her court, that the eldest of them are skilful surgeons. Harrison’s Description of England, prefixed to Holinshed.