Bounty and magnificence are virtues very regal; but a prodigal king is nearer a tyrant than a parsimonious.—Bacon, Essays, Of a King.
Maid. A word which, in its highest sense as = virgin, might once be applied to either sex, to Sir Galahad as freely as to the Pucelle, but which is now restricted to one. Compare παρθένος in Greek.
To him [John the Apostle] God hangyng in the cross bitook his modir, that a mayde schulde kepe a mayde.—Wiclif, Prolog of John.
I wot wel that thapostil was a mayde;
But natheles, though that he wrot or sayde
He wold that every wight were such as he,
All nys but counseil to virginité.
Chaucer, Prologe of the Wyf of Bathe, 79.
Sir Galahad is a maid and sinner never; and that is the cause he shall achieve where he goeth that ye nor none such shall not attain.—Sir T. Malory, Morte D’Arthur, b. xiii. c. 16.
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