I myself
have known many gentlemen who, before wearing their silken
hose, would beg their ladies and mistresses to try them on
and wear them for some eight or ten days, rather more than
less, and who would then themselves wear them in extreme
veneration and contentment, both of mind and body."--
Lalanne's _OEuvres de Brantome_, vol. ix. p. 309.--L.
"If all men were so honourable as this one, the ladies might well trust
them, since the cost would be merely a glove."
"I knew the Lord de Montmorency well," said Geburon, "and I am sure that
he would not have cared to fare after the English fashion. Had he been
contented with so little, he would not have been so successful in love
as he was, for the old song says--
'Of a cowardly lover
No good is e'er heard.'"
"You may be sure," said Saffredent, "that the poor lady withdrew her
hand with all speed, when she felt the beating of his heart, because she
thought that he was about to die, and people say that there is nothing
women loathe more than to touch dead bodies." (4)
4 Most of this sentence, deficient in our MS., is taken
from MS.
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