“THE DIGNITY which chivalry required was removed at an infinite distance from any disdain of men and from any selfish vanity. It arose from a reliance upon God; it was connected with all that was pure and holy; it was united to faith and love; it abode with him only as Wordsworth says:

Who in the silent hour of inward thought
Could still suspect and still revere himself
In lowliness of heart.

— Kenelm Henry Digby, “Maxims of Christian Chivalry,” from The Broadstone of Honor or, The true sense and practice of chivalry

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