I learnt that thou whom I so blindly love
Had blindly loved me years ago—to-day
Thou bidd’st me take this love of mine elsewhere!
Hil. Art thou so sure that I have loved thee long?
I loved one Florian—a stainless knight,
Brave as the very Truth—and, being brave,
Tender and merciful as brave men are;
Whose champion heart was sworn in chivalry
To save all women, sorrowing and oppressed;
Nor did he hold that woman to be banned