- 1. Marriage cannot be pleaded as an excuse for refusing to love.
- 2. A person who cannot keep a secret can never be a lover.
- 3. No one can really love two people at the same time.
- 4. Love never stands still; it always increases—or diminishes.
- 5. Favours which are yielded unwillingly are tasteless.
- 6. A person of the male sex cannot be considered a lover until he has passed out of boyhood.
- 7. If one of two lovers dies, love must be foresworn for two years by the survivor.
- 8. No one can love unless the soft persuasion of love itself compel him.
- 11. It is not becoming to love those ladies who only love with a view to marriage.
- 13. A love that has once been rendered common and commonplace never, as a rule, endures very long.
- 14. Too easy possession renders love contemptible.
- 15. Every lover is accustomed to grow pale at the sight of his lady-love.
- 16. At the sudden and unexpected prospect of his lady-love, the heart of the true lover invariably palpitates.
- 18. If love once begins to diminish, it quickly fades away and rarely recovers itself.
- 20. Every action of a lover terminates with the thought of the loved one.
The Laws of Love accepted by Courts of Love. (As given by Rowbotham.)
A SQUARE AT NIMES.
By Joseph Pennell.
CHAPTER IX
ROMANTIC LOVE
Criticise and condemn as we may the conceptions of the time, the institution of chivalry accomplished a marvellous work of regeneration wherever it was able to establish itself.