who has "reysed in Lettowe, and in Ruce," has been—
"In Gernade at the siege
Of Algesir, and ridden in Belmarie;"
who was—
"At Leyes and at Satalie,
When they were wonne; and in the Grete See,
At many a noble armee;"—
he who has been at—
"Mortal battailes fiftene,
And foughten for our faith at Tramisene,
In listes thries, and ay slain his fo"—
shall he, upon the qualm of a queasy criticism, not be allowed to transfer something of the
"Chevalrie,
Truth and honor, fredom and courtesie,"
which, "from the time that he first began to riden out," he has loved—across a gap of a few hundred leagues and years? To what end else, it may be asked, has he approved himself, "full worthy in his lordes werre," and "ridden thereto no man ferre,"—
"As well in Christendom as in Hethenesse,
And ever honor'd for his worthinesse?"