And my particular bond of obligation

Is stamp'd, my lord, with the warm seal of gratitude.

Yours is a high and gallant spirit, lord!

Impatient of inaction, even in peace

It manifests its owner: for, I found you,

In fertile France, (that nurse of courtesy)

Our sex's foremost champion;—in the tournament

Bearing away the prize, that you might lay it

At some fair lady's feet: thus, in rehearsal,

Training the martial mind to feats of chivalry;