"I understand," said he, "that you are desirous of treading the paths of errantry, which, I assure you, are thorny and troublesome.

Nevertheless, as your purpose is to exercise your humanity and benevolence, so your ambition is commendable.

But towards the practice of chivalry, there is something more required than the virtues of courage and generosity.

A knight-errant ought to understand the sciences, to be master of ethics or morality, to be well versed in theology, a complete casuist, and minutely acquainted with the laws of his country.

He should not only be patient of cold, hunger, and fatigue, righteous, just, and valiant, but also chaste, religious, temperate, polite, and conversable; and have all his passions under the rein, except love, whose empire he should submissively acknowledge." He said, this was the very essence of chivalry; and no man had ever made such a profession of arms, without first having placed his affection upon some beauteous object, for whose honour, and at whose command, he would cheerfully encounter the most dreadful perils.
He took notice, that nothing could be more irregular than the manner in which Crowe had attempted to keep his vigil.