nd
recreant, is at least a mortal enemy to all martial exertion, a scoffer
at the fair sex, and, apparently, disposed to consider all religions as
different modes of superstition." The tone of the review is severer than
the Preface indicates. Nor does Byron attempt to reply to the main issue
of the indictment, an unknightly aversion from war, but rides off on a
minor point, the licentiousness of the Troubadours.]

[7] {6} [See _Memoires sur l'Ancienne Chevalerie_, par M. De la Curne de
Sainte-Palaye, Paris, 1781: "Qu'on lise dans l'auteur du roman de Gerard
de Roussillon, en Provencal, les details tres-circonstancies dans
lesquels il entre sur la reception faite par le Comte Gerard a
l'ambassadeur du roi Charles; on y verra des particularites singulieres
qui donnent une etrange idee des moeurs et de la politesse de ces
siecles aussi corrompus qu'ignorans" (ii. 69). See, too, _ibid., ante_,
p. 65: "Si l'on juge des moeurs d'un siecle par les ecrits qui nous en
sont restes, nous serons en droit de juger que nos ancetres observerent
mal les loix que leur prescrivirent la decence et l'honnetete."]

[8] [See _Recherches sur les Prerogatives des Dames chez les Gaulois sur
les Cours d'Amours_, par M. le President Rolland [d'Erceville], de
l'Academie d'Amiens. Paris, 1787, pp. 18-30, 117, etc.]

[9] [The phrase occurs in _The Rovers, or the Double Arrangement_
(_Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin_, 1854, p. 199), by J. Hookham Frere, a
skit on the "moral inculcated by the German dramas--the reciprocal
duties of one or more husbands to one or more wives." The waiter at the
Golden Eagle at Weimar is a warrior in disguise, and rescues the hero,
who is imprisoned in the abbey of Quedlinburgh.]

[10] {7} ["But the age of chivalry is gone--the unbought grace of life,
the cheap defence of nations," etc. (_Reflections on the Revolution in
France_, by the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, M.P., 1868, p. 89).]

[11] [Passages relating to the Queen of Tahiti, in _Hawkesworth's
Voyages, drawn from journals kept by the several commanders, and from
the papers of Joseph Banks, Esq._ (1773, ii. 106), gave occasion to
malicious and humorous comment. (See _An Epistle from Mr. Banks,
Voyager, Monster-hunter, and Amoroso, To Oberea, Queen of Otaheite_, by
A.B.C.) The lampoon, "printed at Batavia for Jacobus Opani" (the Queen's
Tahitian for "Banks"), was published in 1773. The authorship is assigned
to Major John Scott Waring (1747-1819).]

[12] {8} [Compare